Proton Pass for Business: Cheapest Per Seat, With a Floor

By the founder (bio) · Updated 2026-09-02

If it's not right for you: Bitwarden Teams at $4/user has no seat minimum and a genuinely free two-person tier, and runs no affiliate programme — the better answer below three people. 1Password's Teams Starter Pack is $24.95/month flat for up to 10, which is more than Proton at every size inside that range.

What this page is and isn’t. This is a documentation review. Prices were read from Proton’s own business pricing page on 2026-09-02 in a rendered browser. We have not run Proton Pass through our testing lab — no account was created. A five-seat simulated-company run is queued.

The headline, and the floor underneath it

Pass Essentials is $1.99 per user per month, billed annually at $23.88 per person per year. That is the lowest per-seat price of any business password manager we track.

Then the qualifier, printed on the same line of their page: minimum 3 users.

For a team of three or more that is irrelevant — you meet the floor. For a solo operator or a pair, it means paying $5.97 a month for three seats when you have one or two people. At that point Bitwarden’s free two-person organisation costs nothing and covers you completely, and the cheapest option on paper stops being the cheapest option for you.

Priced against the category

From three people upward, Proton is the cheapest option in this category and stays that way. At ten people it is half of Bitwarden and a fifth of Dashlane.

The tier that actually matters

SSO and activity logs are on Pass Professional at $4.49/user, not on Essentials. Both carry the same 3-seat minimum.

This is the number to budget against if you have any compliance exposure, because “who accessed what, and when” is the question a client questionnaire or an insurer eventually asks — see our client security questionnaire guide.

At $4.49, Proton Professional is still cheaper than Bitwarden’s $6 Enterprise tier and half 1Password’s $8.99. The low headline holds up even after you step to the tier most teams end up needing. But quoting $1.99 while needing Professional is the same mistake as quoting HubSpot’s promotional rate, and we would rather name it.

Monthly billing is expensive here

Proton bills $4.99/user monthly against $1.99 annually — a 151% premium, the second highest of the twenty products we track, behind only HubSpot.

Their page frames it as annual “saving 60%”, which is the same fact stated in the flattering direction. Either way: if you are keeping this a year, pay annually. On a five-person team that is $119.40 versus $299.40.

Jurisdiction and open source

Proton is Swiss, and its clients are open source. Whether that matters is a genuine question rather than marketing.

It matters if a client contract or an insurer asks where data is held, or if you have European clients with an opinion about US jurisdiction. It also matters if you want the option of independent scrutiny of the code holding your credentials.

It does not matter much if your concern is simply “stop the team sharing passwords in chat” — in which case buy on price and adoption, and any of the three products here will do.

Offboarding

From Proton’s documentation: an admin removes the member from the organisation, and items in shared vaults stay with the organisation.

Same structural caveat as every product in this category, and worth repeating because it is the thing that actually bites: a credential saved to a personal vault rather than a shared one leaves with the person. Decide on day one that work credentials live in shared vaults, and check it. The former-employee access guide has the full sequence.

Activity logs — which would let you verify what happened — are on Professional, not Essentials.

What we haven’t told you

• How long five people take to onboard, and whether non-technical users get on with it
• How long removal takes, and what the admin console shows afterwards
• Whether the export is complete and self-serve
• How the browser extension and mobile apps hold up in daily use
• What support is like on a $1.99 plan

Our position

We have not applied to Proton’s affiliate programme. It has the best published terms of any programme in our research — 30% on new subscriptions and 30% on all renewals — and we are holding the application until the lab run is done, so the verdict exists before the commercial relationship does. This page carries no affiliate links and earns nothing.

That ordering is the whole point of the methodology, and it is easier to claim than to do, so: this is us doing it on the highest-paying programme available to us.

Prices verified against proton.me/business/pass/pricing on 2026-09-02 in a rendered browser: Essentials $1.99 ($23.88/yr), Professional $4.49 ($53.88/yr), both minimum 3 users, 14-day free trial. Comparison figures from our pricing tracker. No hands-on testing has been performed.