LastPass increases price of Premium plan again
LastPass increased the price of the Premium plan of its password management service in February 2019; this time to $3 per month for a Premium plan, an increase by $1 per month.
LastPass is the maker of a popular password management service. Free and paid versions of LastPass are available, and Home users may upgrade accounts to a Premium or Family plans.
The Premium version adds features such as encrypted file storage, emergency access, advanced multi-factor authentication options, and priority tech support to the feature set. LastPass enabled mobile access for free accounts in 2015, and removed the free account limitation that restricted sync operations to device classes (e.g. PC to PC, but not PC to mobile).
Families support up to six users as opposed to the single user that a Premium license supports. It furthermore includes access to a family manager dashboard and unlimited shared folders.
LastPass Premium's price is $3 per month if paid annually as of February 2019. LastPass increased the price from $2 per month to $3 per month in February for existing and new users; this is the second premium price increase after the increase from $1 per month to $2 per month in 2017. Both increases came after LogMeIn's acquisition of LastPass in late 2015.
The new price took effect for new customers on February 7, 2019. Existing customers have to pay the new price when they renew the plan. LastPass sends out reminders 30-days before the expiration of a plan to notify users about the upcoming renewal.
Price comparison
An increase from $1 to $3 per month in two years is certainly something that does not look too good on paper. Compared to other premium password manager offerings, it is not too expensive, however.
Dashlane charges $5 per month for Dashlane Premium, 1Password $2.99 per month (and $4.99 for Families), Enpass asks for one-time payments for individual platforms ($11.99 per platform), and BitWarden charges $1 per month for its Family plan (there is no Premium plan).
KeePass, which I use, is available for free.
LastPass' price matches that of the competition for the most part. Enpass' decision to charge users a one-time fee deserves commendation in a world in which most companies move to subscription-based services.
Closing Words
The LastPass Families price remained as it was; it costs just $1 more per month and gives customers access to five additional Premium accounts.
The price increase moves LastPass' premium offering in line with its competition.
Now You: Do you use LastPass Premium or another password manager / service? How much would you pay for such a service? (via Caschy)
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.