LastPass

Overview

LastPass is a long-established password manager dating to 2008, now operating as a standalone company. It offers consumer and business plans with broad platform coverage, SSO, and admin controls, and retains a large installed base.

What it is good at

Platform breadth is genuine: clients across every major OS and browser, mature SSO and directory integrations on business tiers, and admin policies that scale to mid-market and enterprise. The large user base means abundant documentation and community knowledge, and migration tooling is well-trodden. For organizations that simply need broad coverage and are weighing the risk consciously, the tooling itself remains mature and feature-complete.

Where it falls short

LastPass suffered significant, widely reported security breaches, and many security teams now weigh it cautiously or exclude it outright on that basis. It is closed-source and cloud-only, so buyers cannot independently verify the code, and the breach history makes vault re-encryption and master-password hygiene a real consideration for existing users. Buyers should also note the historical changes to free-tier device limits, which pushed many users to paid plans or competitors.

Pricing

Per-user business subscriptions and consumer tiers. Evaluate the total picture, including migration cost, with the TCO calculator.

Best for, and who should look elsewhere

Choose LastPass mainly for continuity if you are an existing customer comfortable with its security posture. If past breaches are a dealbreaker, consider Bitwarden, NordPass, or Dashlane instead.

Bottom line

A widely used manager carrying breach-history baggage that every buyer should weigh deliberately.