The self-hosted 1Password (secure sharing) alternative
Secreta: Self-hosted one-time secret links, encrypted in the browser. The key stays in the link and never reaches your server, so the server stores only ciphertext. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying 1Password (secure sharing) every month.
Stop renting 1Password (secure sharing).
Secreta9 months of 1Password (secure sharing) costs what Secreta costs once (it bills in EUR, so this is approximate).
Buy onceHow we counted: Generic comp, like the Bitwarden Send row: 1Password sells a password manager, and link sharing arrives with the subscription rather than priced on its own. The stored figure is Business per user on annual billing; the Starter Pack is quoted in full because ten people pay $24.95, not ten times $8.99. Both billing states were walked 2026-09-07 - the annual figures stood, and the monthly ones ($10.99 per user, $29.95 the pack) are recorded for the first time, since the page opens on Yearly.
1Password meters per user per month, and the small-team pack meters by BLOCK instead — ten members included, up to ten more seats at $4.99 each.
“additional seats cost: usd: $4.99 per seat per month”, their own page, read 2026-09-07
1Password publishes its price in each currency it bills in — USD, CAD and EUR side by side — rather than converting at the till, and every plan carries the vault, the apps and the audit trail a password manager brings.
“With annual billing, Teams Starter Pack costs: USD: $24.95 per month, or $299.40 per year CAD: $29.95 per month, or $359.40 per year EUR: €21.95 per month, or €263.40 per year”, their own page
Stay with 1Password if what you actually need is a password manager — vaults, device apps, recovery — and sharing links are a bonus that comes with it. Secreta is one job done fully: zero-knowledge one-time links your own server cannot read, with no vault, no accounts for recipients, and nothing metered per head.
What Secreta deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting 1Password (secure sharing).
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in 1Password (secure sharing)'s cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Secreta vs renting comparison.
Questions about moving off 1Password (secure sharing).
Is zero-knowledge just a marketing word here?
What does the server actually store?
Do I need HTTPS?
Can I share files instead of text?
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Sources
- 1Password (secure sharing): price checked 2026-09-03, source“In USD, 1Password Business costs $8.99 per user per month when billed annually, or $107.88 per user per year. ... Teams Starter Pack costs $24.95 per month when billed annually, or $299.40 per year, and includes 10 members.”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.