Product innovation across credential risk visibility, passwordless authentication, and emerging AI use cases helps individuals and organizations protect logins and strengthen identity security

Bitwarden, the trusted leader in passkey, password, and secrets management, today announced continued global adoption and product momentum across its open source security portfolio. More than 15 million users and 80,000 businesses worldwide trust Bitwarden to protect credentials, manage secrets, and strengthen identity security across evolving needs.

The milestone reflects growing demand for easy-to-use identity security solutions that empower individuals to protect online accounts and help organizations reduce identity-related risk at scale. As phishing, credential abuse, unmanaged access, and emerging AI use cases create new risks across human and machine access, Bitwarden continues to expand capabilities for individuals, businesses, and developers while remaining anchored in open source transparency and user control.

Trusted open source security at scale

Bitwarden growth is rooted in trust and a belief that strong security should be available to everyone. The company’s global reach now spans 180 countries and more than 50 languages, reflecting broad adoption by users and organizations that need a strong credential security foundation to protect personal accounts, secure workforce credentials, and manage developer secrets.

Bitwarden remains committed to its forever-free basic plan for individuals, which includes vital password management capabilities to keep everyone safe online. Paid Premium, Families, Teams, and Enterprise plans deliver expanded capabilities for users and organizations with more advanced security needs.

Identity is the new security perimeter

Identity is now central to how organizations secure access to applications, systems, and sensitive information. Security teams are placing greater emphasis on protecting credentials, strengthening authentication, and improving visibility into identity-related risk as attackers increasingly target access across human and non-human access paths.

A recent survey found that 48% of organizations without a password management solution report ineffective password health monitoring, with an average of nine days needed to update weak or compromised credentials. These gaps highlight why organizations require better ways to identify, prioritize, and remediate credential risk across their environments.

Bitwarden addresses these needs with product capabilities that improve credential visibility and remediation across individual, business, and developer workflows. As human and non-human access patterns expand across business environments, organizations require stronger measures to preserve visibility, governance, and control across users, service accounts, and automated workflows.

Enterprise adoption reinforces trust

Enterprise adoption continues to validate Bitwarden momentum, with total new business subscriptions increasing more than 70% year-over-year in Q2 2026, and up 60% for the first half of the year from 2025 as organizations place greater emphasis on securing workforce access, protecting credentials, and improving visibility into identity-related risk. Global 2000 organizations continue to choose Bitwarden for its open source security model, support for advanced deployment requirements, true centralized administration, and scalable credential protection across distributed workforces.

Bitwarden continues to earn strong third-party validation, including top placements across G2 reports spanning Enterprise Usability, Results, Relationship, and Implementation indexes, alongside regional recognition in EMEA and mid-market categories. This validation reflects continued customer confidence across deployment, support, security outcomes, and overall product experience.

Partner momentum further reinforces that demand. Partner-originated ARR increased 50% annually in H2 2026. These milestones reflect demand from organizations seeking trusted security solutions for evolving identity and access needs.

Product momentum across passwords, passkeys, secrets, and access workflows

Bitwarden continues to invest in product innovation shaped by user and customer needs, enabling individuals, organizations, and developers to strengthen security, improve usability, and respond to changing identity and access requirements. Recent advancements include:

• Passkey innovation, including collaboration with Microsoft to support native operating system passkey management and passkey-based login into Windows 11.
• Credential risk visibility, including Access Intelligence, risk over time reporting, Vault Health Alerts and Password Coaching to help organizations and individuals identify and remediate weak, reused, or exposed credentials.
• Expanded access and secrets protection, such as Automatic Login with SSO and Agent Access SDK to help teams secure application access via identity provider (IdP) dashboards and human-approved credential access for AI agent workflows.

Bitwarden also appointed Andrew Hartnett as chief technology officer. Hartnett joins Bitwarden from One Identity, where he also served as CTO, and brings deep experience across identity security, engineering leadership, and enterprise software development. The appointment underscores continued growth and increased investment in product development and security architecture, alongside user experience as Bitwarden expands capabilities across credential management, enterprise security, passkeys, and AI-driven workflows.

“Bitwarden growth reflects the trust people place in products that protect the most sensitive parts of their digital lives,” said Mike Sullivan, chief executive officer at Bitwarden. “That responsibility starts with a simple belief: security should be easy to use, built on trust, and available for everyone. As Bitwarden continues to evolve, we will keep investing in innovation, user experience, and enterprise capabilities while staying grounded in the commitments that attract users to the solution in the first place: a trusted open source foundation, a passionate community, a robust forever-free basic plan, transparency, and security that users can verify and control.”

Bitwarden helps individuals, organizations, and developers protect credentials, manage secrets, support passkey-based authentication, and secure emerging access workflows. Learn more at bitwarden.com.

About Bitwarden

Bitwarden equips enterprises and individuals with the power to securely manage and share information online with trusted open source security solutions. With a password manager for everyone, users can easily manage their entire online identity anywhere. Bitwarden Secrets Manager and Passwordless.dev enhance developer secrets security and streamline passkey development for end users and workforce authentication. Founded in 2016, Bitwarden serves over 80,000 businesses and more than 15 million users worldwide across 180 countries in 50+ languages. The company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. Learn more at bitwarden.com.

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