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Bitwarden vs Passbolt: which is more reliable? (2026)

Bitwarden is more reliable than Passbolt, scoring 96.3 vs 62.1 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Bitwarden reported 2 incidents and Passbolt reported 2, with effective uptime of 99.98% and 99.10% respectively. Bitwarden resolves incidents faster on average (1h).

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

Bitwarden

96.3/100

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Passbolt

62.1/100

Operational

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MetricBitwardenPassbolt
Reliability score96.362.1
Rank (password managers)#1#9
Uptime (90 days)99.98%99.10%
Incidents (90 days)22
Partial / major outages01
Avg time to resolve1h10h 25m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Bitwarden and Passbolt differ

  • Passbolt had 1 partial or major outage, compared with 0 for Bitwarden.
  • Bitwarden fixes problems faster: 1h on average, against 10h 25m for Passbolt (10.5× quicker).
  • Bitwarden's longest outage on record lasted 51m (Mar 27, 2026); Passbolt's lasted 18h 57m (Oct 21, 2026).

90-day uptime

Bitwarden

Aug 5, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026: no incidentsSep 15, 2026: 99.14% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 16, 2026 – Sep 29, 2026: no incidentsSep 30, 2026: 99.61% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 1, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.986% average daily uptimeToday

Passbolt

Aug 5, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026: no incidentsSep 29, 2026: 98.83% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 30, 2026 – Oct 20, 2026: no incidentsOct 21, 2026: 52.41% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 22, 2026: 68.60% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 23, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.109% average daily uptimeToday

Recent Bitwarden incidents

  • MaintenanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 2h

    Maintenance Window

    Affected: US Identity Service, US RESTful API, US Web Vault, EU Identity Service, EU RESTful API, EU Web Vault

  • MaintenanceOct 14, 2026 · resolved in 2h

    Maintenance Window

    Affected: US Identity Service, US RESTful API, US Web Vault, EU Identity Service, EU RESTful API, EU Web Vault

  • Degraded performanceSep 30, 2026 · resolved in 37m

    Elevated error rates on api

    Affected: US RESTful API

  • MaintenanceSep 30, 2026 · resolved in 2h

    Maintenance Window

    Affected: US Identity Service, US RESTful API, US Web Vault, EU Identity Service, EU RESTful API, EU Web Vault

  • MaintenanceSep 16, 2026 · resolved in 2h

    Maintenance Window

    Affected: US Identity Service, US RESTful API, US Web Vault, EU Identity Service, EU RESTful API, EU Web Vault

  • Degraded performanceSep 15, 2026 · resolved in 1h 22m

    Intermittent errors with Identity

    Affected: Status Updates, US Identity Service, EU Identity Service

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