Proton Pass Review (2026): Swiss, Free or from €2.99 a Month

What is Proton Pass?

Who is behind Proton Pass

Proton Pass is the password manager from Proton AG in Geneva, Switzerland – the company behind Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Drive and Proton Calendar. Proton launched in the summer of 2014 after a crowdfunding campaign in which more than 10,000 people gave over $500,000, started by a team of scientists who met at CERN. Proton AG’s primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation, also based in Geneva, and Proton says it has no venture capital investors and does not sell user data.

Proton Pass is built on the same end-to-end encryption that Proton uses for its other services. Your logins, notes and cards are encrypted on your device, and Proton says that even the metadata is encrypted, so Proton cannot read it. All Proton Pass apps are open source.

Where Proton Pass hosts your data

Both the Proton website and the Proton Pass web app (pass.proton.me) run on Proton’s own network in Switzerland (Proton AG, AS62371), not on a US cloud. Your vault is stored by a Swiss company under Swiss law.

Checked 25 Oct 2026. Hosting can change – report a change.

Proton Pass pricing

Proton Pass has a free plan and three paid personal plans. Proton Free costs nothing and needs no credit card: unlimited logins, notes and credit cards, unlimited devices, apps for browser, phone and desktop, a password generator, 10 hide-my-email aliases, alerts for weak and reused passwords, passkeys and password import. Pass Plus costs €2.99 a month billed yearly (€35.88) or €4.99 billed monthly, and adds unlimited aliases, a built-in 2FA authenticator, vault and link sharing, dark web monitoring, file attachments, emergency access, Proton Sentinel account protection, custom domains for aliases and a command-line tool. Pass Family costs €4.99 a month billed yearly (€59.88) for 6 Pass Plus accounts with an admin panel. Proton Unlimited costs €9.99 a month billed yearly (€119.88) and adds Proton Mail, Calendar, VPN and Drive. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee.

For teams, Pass Essentials costs €1.99 per user a month billed yearly (€23.88) and Pass Professional €4.49 per user a month billed yearly (€53.88), with group sharing, an SSH agent and the CLI; both need at least 3 users. Taxes may apply on business plans.

Compared with 1Password, which has no free plan and charges €2.74 a month for Individual in the first year (then €3.65) and €4.31 for Families (then €5.75, for 5 users), Proton Pass is cheaper for families and covers one more person.

Features and security

Proton Pass runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, as an extension for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge and Brave, in the browser as a web app and on the command line. Items are stored in encrypted vaults: each vault gets a random 32-byte key and is encrypted with 256-bit AES-GCM. Proton Sentinel, its high-security programme, adds protection even if an attacker has your password. Proton says Proton Pass has been audited by independent third-party experts, publishes the reports, and runs a public bug bounty programme.

The feature that sets Proton Pass apart is hide-my-email aliases: a unique address for every site that forwards to your real inbox, so leaked addresses do not reveal your main email. Moving in is easy: Proton Pass imports from browsers and other password managers, including 1Password’s own 1PUX export files.

What users say about Proton Pass

On Trustpilot Proton Pass has its own profile with 3.4/5 from 18 reviews (checked 25 October 2026). That is a small number, so treat it as an indication only. Long-term users praise the reliability and the many options; the most common complaint is autofill that does not work on some websites, which Proton answers in its replies by saying it is improving autofill.

Pros and cons

Verdict on Proton Pass

Verdict: Proton Pass is the most complete European password manager: open source, on every platform, hosted on Proton’s own servers in Switzerland, with a free plan you can actually live with. The family plan is cheaper than 1Password’s and covers six people. Autofill still has rough edges on some sites, but for most people leaving a North American password manager, this is the one to pick. Best for: individuals, families and small teams who want a complete password manager from a Swiss company. Not for: people who need flawless autofill on unusual websites.

Proton Pass is ranked #1 in Best European alternatives to 1Password and in Best European password managers.

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