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Business password managers · November 2026 Edition

Bitwarden vs NordPass

Five of fourteen models named Bitwarden first on the direct prompt; zero named NordPass. Both were named by all fourteen models and Bitwarden carries 76 labels and NordPass 43, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Bitwarden

endorsed leader

Named in five categories this edition.

NordPass

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share41%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate4%9%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#4A position in a field of 8; printed, not drawn.
Labels7643A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Bitwarden reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.1Password was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. 1Password vs Bitwarden · 1Password vs NordPass · Bitwarden vs Keeper Security

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the business password managers page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
BitwardenFirst choices, of fourteen modelsNordPass
Direct501 against NordPass
Paraphrase20
Comparative60
Budget-constrained131
Scale-constrained10
Negative403 against Bitwarden · 3 against NordPass
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Bitwarden and NordPass were named in the same answer 122 times, of the 247 answers naming Bitwarden and the 126 naming NordPass. In those answers NordPass took the first choice four times and Bitwarden fifty-seven.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Bitwarden and NordPass stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Bitwarden NordPass first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Bitwarden on the left and NordPass on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Bitwarden and NordPass stood in it.

Bitwarden first, NordPass an alternative

5 of 14 modelsNordPass was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Bitwarden alternatives: 1Password, Dashlane, NordPass
Mistral Small1Password, Bitwarden alternatives: Keeper Security, NordPass
DeepSeek V4 FlashBitwarden alternatives: 1Password, Keeper Security
GLM 4.7 FlashX1Password, Bitwarden alternatives: Dashlane, Keeper Security, NordPass, RoboForm
Muse Glimmer 30BBitwarden alternatives: 1Password, Keeper Security

Neither was the first choice, one was named

8 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 Flash1Password alternatives: Bitwarden, Keeper Security
Perplexity Sonar1Password alternatives: Bitwarden, Dashlane, Keeper Security, NordPass
Grok 4.201Password alternatives: Bitwarden, Keeper Security, NordPass
Llama 4 Maverick1Password alternatives: Bitwarden, Keeper Security, NordPass, RoboForm
Qwen 3.7 Flash1Password alternatives: Bitwarden, Dashlane, Keeper Security, NordPass
Kimi K21Password alternatives: Bitwarden, Dashlane, NordPass
MiniMax M2.51Password alternatives: Bitwarden, LastPass for Business
GPT-6 Luna1Password alternatives: Bitwarden, Keeper Security

Neither was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 mini1Password, Dashlane alternatives: Keeper Security

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Bitwarden leads by thirty-three points.
Bitwarden38%#2 of 8
NordPass5%#3 of 8
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Bitwarden leads by thirty-nine points.
Bitwarden41%#2 of 8
NordPass2%#4 of 8
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Bitwarden leads by forty-two points.
Bitwarden42%#2 of 6
NordPass0%#5 of 6
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Bitwarden

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.

“researchers identified 27 vulnerabilities across four major password managers — Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane, and 1Password” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“found "12 distinct attacks against Bitwarden, 7 against LastPass, 6 against Dashlane and 6 against 1Password"” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative
“Bitwarden, Dashlane — CAUTION” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · soft negative
“Bitwarden and 1Password are often the top picks because they combine strong security, solid business features, and reasonable pricing.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · direct prompt · first choice
“Bitwarden offers the best value proposition with strong security credentials, deployment flexibility, and competitive pricing” MiniMax M2.5 · comparative prompt · first choice
“1Password Business or Bitwarden offer the best balance of security, features, cost, and ease of management.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about NordPass

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Basic or consumer-first versions of NordPass are flagged for lacking essential enterprise features like SCIM and granular RBAC” Mistral Small · negative prompt · soft negative
“Consumer-first products like basic NordPass and basic LastPass that lack SCIM and granular RBAC.” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · soft negative
“Recent 2026 research from ETH Zurich identified vulnerabilities in several popular ones” Grok 4.20 · negative prompt · soft negative
“For a company with a strict limited budget, I'd recommend NordPass Teams at $1.79/month per user.” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“NordPass Business / Dashlane Business (User-friendly enterprise options with strong health monitoring features)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · alternative
“A safer shortlist for evaluation is 1Password, Bitwarden, Keeper, NordPass, Dashlane, or Proton Pass” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · alternative
Also compared
1Password vs Bitwarden1Password vs NordPassBitwarden vs Keeper SecurityBitwarden vs DashlaneKeeper Security vs NordPassNordPass vs DashlaneAll ten head-to-head pages and the full password managers standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.