Sending a colleague a password is a two-minute problem that every organization solves badly at least once. The tools that solve it properly are mostly password managers with a sharing feature attached, and they are priced as password managers.
What the vendors publish
Bitwarden — read 2026-09-03 and again 2026-10-12. Premium $1.65/month, billed annually at $19.80, with Send (text and files) included. The business tiers charge per user per month on an annual commitment.
1Password — read 2026-09-03 and again 2026-10-12. Business **$8.99 USD per user, per month, paid annually ($107.88 per user per year); the Teams Starter Pack is $24.95 USD per month for 10 members**, paid annually ($299.40 a year). Two meters: per user, and per block of ten.
Onetime Secret — read 2026-09-03 and again 2026-10-12. Identity Plus EUR 35/month; Basic EUR 0; Team Plus EUR 125/month. **The figure is in euros and is left in euros here** — converting it would put a number in this guide that nobody read on a page.
The arithmetic, labeled as arithmetic
Published figure × 60 months. Currencies are kept as published.
| monthly | five years | |
|---|---|---|
| Onetime Secret Identity Plus | EUR 35 | EUR 2,100 |
| 1Password Business (per user) | $8.99 | $539 per user |
| Bitwarden Premium | $1.65 | $99 |
| Secreta | — | $79, once |
The 1Password Teams Starter Pack is quoted differently again — $24.95 a month for ten members, paid annually at $299.40 a year — and is left out of the five-year column rather than multiplied here, because it is a block price and the row above is a per-user one.
Bitwarden Premium at $99 over five years is the closest thing to a fair fight on this page, and it is worth saying so plainly rather than burying it: **if all you need is Send, Bitwarden is inexpensive and excellent.**
What Secreta is, and the property that is the point
Zero-knowledge: your server cannot read what it stores. The secret is encrypted before it reaches the server, and the server keeps ciphertext it has no key for. That is a different claim from "we promise not to look", and it is the reason to run this one yourself.
Links are one-time: the secret is destroyed on first view, and the access log records metadata only.
Who should stay where they are
Stay with 1Password if what you actually need is a password manager — vaults, device apps, recovery — and sharing links come along with it. **Stay with Bitwarden Send if you need to share large files**: Secreta encrypts a file along with the secret, but only up to 5 MB by default and 25 MB at most.
**Stay with Onetime Secret if you want a hosted service with unlimited custom domains and nothing to run yourself** — Secreta runs on your own server, with team members invited from its Team page.
The two links this guide owes you
Secreta is $79, once, with the PHP source. Open the demo — send yourself a secret and watch it die on first view.
Try the Secreta demo ↗Live, on sample data, no sign-up.