Secreta vs renting the software.
One-time secret links encrypted in your browser; the key stays in the link, never on your server.
Competitor prices on this page read between 2026-09-03 and 2026-09-07, each row dated, each one read on the vendor's own page and linked in Sources.
The subscription math.
9 months of 1Password (secure sharing) costs what Secreta costs once (it bills in EUR, so this is approximate).
The fine print
How their pricing grows. 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” Read 2026-09-07.
Who should stay with 1Password (secure sharing). 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.
How 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.
3 months of Onetime Secret costs what Secreta costs once (it bills in EUR, so this is approximate).
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Onetime Secret's paid tier is a flat monthly subscription rather than usage-metered pricing.
“€35 /month Full control over your branded secret-sharing experience.” Read 2026-08-11.
Who should stay with Onetime Secret. If you want a hosted service with unlimited custom domains and nothing to run yourself, stay with Onetime Secret; Secreta runs on your own server, with team members invited from its Team page.
How we counted. Two errors from 2026-09-03, both fixed 2026-09-07 by driving the page rather than reading its markup. (1) 'No yearly figure beside the toggle' - it works, printing $356 and $1,200 a year, about 15% off monthly. (2) 'EUR not USD' was a property of the reader: a REGION selector offers the US, UK, Canada, NZ and the EU, and the US setting prints the same numerals in dollars - so the cents are the vendor's own dollar price, not a conversion.
48 months of Bitwarden (Send feature) costs what Secreta costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Bitwarden's business tiers charge per user per month on an annual billing commitment, so the bill grows with headcount.
“For teams and growing companies that need to move quickly. $ 4 per month / per user billed annually” Read 2026-08-11.
Who should stay with Bitwarden (Send feature). If you need to share files (not just text) as a self-destructing one-time secret, stay with Bitwarden Send — Secreta handles text secrets only, with no file sharing.
How we counted. Generic comp - Send is a feature of a password manager, not a standalone one-time-secret portal. The personal-plan table carries no Free column, so the page says nothing about the free tier's Send limits and neither does this row. Re-read 2026-09-07, unchanged: Premium $1.65/mo ($19.80/yr), Families $3.99 up to 6 users ($47.88/yr), Teams $4 and Enterprise $6 per user. No monthly state exists to walk: 'Pricing shown in USD and based on an annual subscription.'
Work out your own numbers.
The rented figures use the cited plan price above; per-seat plans scale by the seat count from that same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
Why owning beats renting here.
No per-month, per-seat or per-location fees: the license does not expire.
Your data sits on a server you choose; customer records are not held in a vendor's cloud unless you put them there.
Records, users and usage are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
It keeps working if the vendor doesn't: no one can switch your copy off, and keeping it up to date is in your hands.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply. The product page lists what Secreta deliberately doesn't do.
Related on this site
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.”
- Onetime Secret: price checked 2026-09-07, source“European Union: Basic '€0 /month' ... Identity Plus '€35 /month' / '€356 /year' ... Team Plus '€125 /month' / '€1,200 /year' ... United States: '$35 /month' / '$356 /year'”
- Bitwarden (Send feature): price checked 2026-09-03, source“Premium - '$1.65 per month' when 'Billed annually at $19.80' ... Send ... Premium users get 'Text and files'”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.