{
  "id": "dashlane-vs-lastpass",
  "ids": [
    "dashlane",
    "lastpass"
  ],
  "title": "Dashlane vs LastPass: free limits and business sharing",
  "kicker": "PASSWORD MANAGER COMPARISONS",
  "heading": "Dashlane vs LastPass:<br>subscription access and workplace fit",
  "deck": "Compare Dashlane and LastPass for current free access, computer and mobile use, shared credentials and business package boundaries.",
  "description": "Compare Dashlane and LastPass for current free access, computer and mobile use, shared credentials and business package boundaries.",
  "answerHeading": "Choose around the work.<br>Check the retained plan.",
  "researchTag": "Dashlane vs LastPass",
  "researchLimit": "Official product and support-page comparison with proposed evaluation briefs; no hands-on performance, security, reliability or usability ranking.",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-15",
  "type": "workflow-buying",
  "relatedLinks": [
    {
      "path": "/categories/password-managers/",
      "title": "Compare password managers"
    },
    {
      "path": "/guides/software-buying-checklist/",
      "title": "Build a software buying checklist"
    },
    {
      "path": "/guides/software-total-cost/",
      "title": "Compare the full subscription cost"
    }
  ],
  "answer": "Consider LastPass Free only when one device type covers the intended use. Dashlane now requires a paid subscription after any trial, so an older free-plan comparison is no longer a sound starting point. For employees using both computers and phones, compare paid access and the retained business package in each service. Judge the rollout by a permission and offboarding pilot rather than a generic security ranking.",
  "rows": [
    [
      "Permanent free tier",
      "Former Free plan ended in September 2025",
      "Free continues with one device-type restriction"
    ],
    [
      "Computer and phone workflow",
      "Check paid access on required browsers and mobile apps",
      "Paid personal access removes the free device-type boundary"
    ],
    [
      "Everyday capture",
      "Password and passkey management with autofill",
      "Vault storage, login capture, generation and autofill"
    ],
    [
      "Personal versus workplace",
      "Consumer subscriptions differ from Omnix business offerings",
      "Personal and family products differ from Teams and Business"
    ],
    [
      "Shared workforce records",
      "Business password management includes sharing and policies",
      "Business sharing and user management have edition-specific scope"
    ],
    [
      "Wider protection package",
      "Credential Protection is separate from Password Management",
      "Business Max and additional bundles have separate entitlements"
    ],
    [
      "Quote check",
      "Confirm which Omnix products and deployment scope are included",
      "Confirm required edition, device coverage and renewal terms"
    ]
  ],
  "scenarios": [
    {
      "name": "A buyer follows an old free-plan recommendation",
      "question": "Can the shortlist still meet a zero-subscription budget?",
      "left": "Replace the historical Free-plan assumption with the current paid offer.",
      "right": "Check whether computers-only or mobile-only Free use actually fits.",
      "note": "Write down the devices used on a normal day. A plan that excludes half the workflow should fail the requirement before any feature scoring."
    },
    {
      "name": "An employee signs in on desktop and mobile",
      "question": "Does the same login remain usable in both environments?",
      "left": "Pilot the paid extension and mobile filling on approved sample accounts.",
      "right": "Use a paid tier rather than the one-device-type Free plan for the pilot.",
      "note": "Choose a browser login and a mobile-app login from the actual workload. Record failed capture, duplicate records and manual correction steps."
    },
    {
      "name": "A manager delegates a supplier account",
      "question": "Can access change without sending a password in chat?",
      "left": "Demonstrate sharing and the policy controls in the quoted business package.",
      "right": "Demonstrate the shared-record permissions in the proposed business edition.",
      "note": "Use a synthetic account. Change the assigned colleague, rotate the supplier password and record who owns the external account after the handover."
    },
    {
      "name": "IT evaluates a wider credential-risk programme",
      "question": "Which tasks require a product beyond the vault?",
      "left": "Separate the Omnix Password Management and Credential Protection scopes.",
      "right": "Itemise the proposed Business or Business Max capabilities and extras.",
      "note": "Define the event to detect, the person who responds and the evidence to retain. Do not assume a vault subscription includes every monitoring or remediation feature."
    }
  ],
  "exampleTable": {
    "caption": "Four hypothetical selection briefs, not completed security or usability tests",
    "headers": [
      "Decision",
      "Dashlane check",
      "LastPass check",
      "Pass condition"
    ],
    "rows": [
      [
        "No recurring budget",
        "Paid-plan boundary",
        "One device-type Free restriction",
        "All required devices fit the retained offer"
      ],
      [
        "Daily mobile and desktop use",
        "Extension and mobile pilot",
        "Eligible paid access pilot",
        "Sample logins work on both surfaces"
      ],
      [
        "Colleague handover",
        "Quoted sharing and policies",
        "Quoted shared-record permissions",
        "Named owner and completed rotation"
      ],
      [
        "Risk-monitoring scope",
        "Omnix package split",
        "Business edition and bundle split",
        "Written feature-to-response mapping"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "datasetDescription": "Four proposed purchasing tasks concerning free access, mixed-device sign-in, shared-account handover and business package scope. No comparative security outcome is asserted.",
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "device-requirements",
      "navLabel": "Device fit",
      "title": "Turn the device restriction into a concrete requirement",
      "paragraphs": [
        "“One device type” is easy to misunderstand as “one device”. For a buyer, the practical question is whether the intended person switches between a computer and a phone. List those transitions explicitly: a desktop browser at work, a phone while travelling and a replacement device after a failure. Use that list to define the account and subscription used in the pilot.",
        "For either product, test the sites and apps that cause the most friction today. Include a login with a separate username step and a record with two similar account names. Ask the user to correct a captured item without administrator help. Keep the number of manual interventions as an observation from your own pilot, rather than borrowing a universal ease-of-use rating."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "business-package-scope",
      "navLabel": "Business scope",
      "title": "Compare the vault rollout separately from a monitoring programme",
      "paragraphs": [
        "A workplace password manager needs a repeatable ownership process. Decide who approves new shared items, how access is granted to a temporary colleague and who rotates the external password when someone leaves. Removing vault access should be one step in that process. It cannot erase a credential someone previously copied, so assign responsibility for the underlying service as well.",
        "Wider credential-risk packages introduce a different buying conversation. Start from a defined event and an agreed response: who sees the alert, what information is needed and where the follow-up is recorded. Obtain a written package breakdown before comparing quotes. A long product-family feature page should not be treated as the entitlement list for an entry-level vault subscription."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "faqs": [
    {
      "question": "Is Dashlane still free?",
      "answer": "Its former permanent Free plan ended on 16 September 2025. A trial is separate from continuing use, which now requires a paid personal or business offer."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can LastPass Free cover both a phone and computer?",
      "answer": "The continuing Free plan is limited to one device type: computers or mobile devices. Choose an eligible paid plan if the required workflow spans both types."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does a personal password subscription provide employee administration?",
      "answer": "Do not assume so. Compare the business edition’s actual sharing, user-management and policy scope. Household or personal access is a different purchasing arrangement."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does this comparison prove one service is safer?",
      "answer": "No. It compares documented access and buying boundaries. Run the proposed permission and recovery checks and review current product documentation against your own security requirements."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.dashlane.com/blog/dashlane-free-ending",
      "facts": "Free-plan discontinuation, personal password workflow and distinct Omnix password-management versus credential-protection packages."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.dashlane.com/personal-password-manager",
      "facts": "Free-plan discontinuation, personal password workflow and distinct Omnix password-management versus credential-protection packages."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.dashlane.com/pricing",
      "facts": "Free-plan discontinuation, personal password workflow and distinct Omnix password-management versus credential-protection packages."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.lastpass.com/pricing",
      "facts": "Current Free device-type restriction, paid access, vault features and separate personal and business editions."
    }
  ]
}