LastPass and RoboForm both show up on every "best password manager for teams" list, and they sit in genuinely different parts of the market. LastPass is mature product with full enterprise breadth but real trust damage from the late-2022 vault-backup breach. RoboForm, by contrast, is old-school form-filler turned cost-effective business password manager, with SSO/SCIM in the base plan and a long-standing closed-source codebase.
This comparison is written for the people actually making the call: founders, IT leads and ops folk at startups, agencies and small teams. No affiliate rankings, no "best of" filler — just the trade-offs that matter once more than one person touches the vault.
Quick verdict
Pick LastPass if teams already on lastpass who've accepted the post-breach model. Competent product, real brand damage from the 2022 breach.
Pick RoboForm if teams that fill a lot of complex web forms and want sso/scim cheap. Cheap Business plan with SSO + SCIM included. Dated UI, closed source, mobile CVEs to track.
Both are zero-knowledge and both have a defensible recent security story. The choice is almost never about cryptography — it's about collaboration model, governance, and how much per seat per month you want to spend.
Team pricing at a glance
| Feature | LastPass | RoboForm |
|---|---|---|
| Smallest team planAll prices USD, billed annually unless noted. Verify on vendor sites before buying. | Teams: from ~$4/user/mo | Business: $3.33/user/mo |
| Next tier for growing teams | Business: from ~$7/user/mo | Enterprise: custom (self-host 1,000+ users) |
| Free tier available | Yes (1 device type only) | Yes (1 device) |
| SSO (SAML / OIDC) | Business / add-on | Business (OIDC) |
| SCIM provisioning | Business and above | Business |
Collaboration model
| Feature | LastPass | RoboForm |
|---|---|---|
| Shared vaults / collections | Yes — Shared folders | |
| Per-item permissions | Full / Login-only / Read-only | |
| External / one-time secure share | Limited | Item Send (recipient needs RoboForm account) |
| Group-based sharing | Business | |
| Activity / audit log |
Security & transparency
| Feature | LastPass | RoboForm |
|---|---|---|
| Zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption | ||
| Cipher | AES-256-CBC | AES-256-CBC |
| Key derivation | PBKDF2-SHA256 (iterations raised post-2022) | PBKDF2-SHA256 (1,000,000 iterations) |
| Open-source clients | ||
| Self-hosting option | Enterprise (1,000+ users) | |
| Published independent audit | Secfault Security (2023, 2025) | |
| Publicly disclosed vault breach | Yes — Aug & Nov 2022 (encrypted vault backups exfiltrated) | No vault breach; pre-2015 PRNG flaw in generator; Android CVEs in 2025–26 |
Pricing for teams: where the real difference is
LastPass sits in the ~$4/user/mo Teams range and ~$7/user/mo Business range, with SSO bundled on Business or sold as an add-on. Plan structure has shifted more than once — confirm before buying.
RoboForm Business is $3.33/user/month with no published minimum, and SSO + SCIM are included rather than add-ons. Enterprise is custom-priced and unlocks the self-hosting option (gated to 1,000+ users).
For a fast-growing team, the slope matters as much as the starting price. Model it at the size you actually expect to be in 12 months — not the size you are today.
How teams actually share credentials
LastPass. Shared folders with per-user/per-item permissions, RBAC and policy controls — solid feature breadth, plainer one-time external sharing than 1Password or Bitwarden.
RoboForm. Shared folders with three permission tiers (Full / Login-only / Read-only) plus group sharing on Business. The Login-only role is genuinely useful for contractor access; external sharing still requires the recipient to be a RoboForm user.
The everyday question is: when a contractor joins on Monday and leaves on Friday, how much work is it to give them access to exactly the credentials they need, watch what they touched, and revoke cleanly? That's where the daylight between these two shows up.
Security architecture
LastPass. LastPass uses AES-256-CBC with PBKDF2-SHA256; default iteration counts were raised after the 2022 incident in which encrypted vault backups were exfiltrated. The cipher held, but a vault leaving the vendor's environment remains the headline trust concern.
RoboForm. AES-256 with PBKDF2-SHA256 at 1,000,000 iterations and a documented zero-knowledge architecture. Two recent Secfault Security pentests (2023, 2025). The pre-2015 generator PRNG flaw and the 2025–26 Android CVEs are worth knowing about even though no vault has been breached.
If you're forced to choose on cryptography alone, modern AEAD ciphers (AES-GCM, XChaCha20-Poly1305) paired with a memory-hard KDF (Argon2id) are the bar. Both vendors are inside that range; the harder differences are open-source posture, audit history, and whether you can self-host.
Admin & governance for teams
Both products support some flavour of role-based access, forgotten-password recovery, and audit logging on the right tier. Where they diverge is on the boring-but-critical stuff: SSO, SCIM provisioning, and whether group policies can keep up with how your team actually grows.
SSO tier: LastPass — Business / add-on; RoboForm — Business (OIDC). SCIM tier: LastPass — Business and above; RoboForm — Business.
If Okta, Entra ID or Google Workspace SSO is non-negotiable from day one, factor the tier price into the per-seat number — it's often the thing that flips the cheaper-on-paper option into the more expensive real-world bill.
LastPass
Pros
- Mature browser extension and form-fill
- Established enterprise feature set (SSO, directory sync, policies)
- Familiar to many users already
- Improved security posture post-2022 (raised KDF iterations, infra changes)
Cons
- 2022 breach exfiltrated encrypted customer vault backups — trust cost is real
- Free tier limited to one device type
- Closed source — auditability depends on third-party reports
- No self-hosting option
RoboForm
Pros
- Industry-leading form-filling (the original differentiator since 1999)
- SSO + SCIM included in the base Business plan
- "Login-only" permission lets contractors auth without seeing the password
- Self-hosting option exists (Enterprise, 1,000+ users)
Cons
- Closed source; no public SOC 2 report
- UI feels legacy compared to Bitwarden or 1Password
- Pre-2015 PRNG flaw in the password generator (long fixed but reputationally notable)
- Two Android-specific CVEs in 2025–26 hint at mobile-hardening lag
A third option worth considering
Both LastPass and RoboForm carry baggage when the conversation turns to trust — one because of the 2022 vault-backup incident, the other because of how much of its security story you're asked to take on faith. Pwdly took the opposite path: a documented zero-knowledge architecture, modern ciphers, and an honest list of what we don't do.
- Per-project vaults. Most teams don't share "everything with everyone" — they share by client, repo or product. Pwdly makes that the primary unit, not an afterthought folder.
- $2/user/month, flat. No seat-count cliff, no SSO upsell on the cheapest paid plan. See the full pricing.
- XChaCha20-Poly1305 + Argon2id under the hood. The cipher explainer walks through why those defaults matter.
- Trade-offs we own. No breach monitoring (we literally can't read your data), no self-hosting yet, no browser extension on day one. The security page has the honest list.
If the lesson you took from the last few years is "read the architecture, not the marketing", Pwdly is built to be read that way.
Frequently asked questions
Is LastPass or RoboForm better for a small team?
LastPass fits best when teams already on lastpass who've accepted the post-breach model, while RoboForm is the stronger choice when teams that fill a lot of complex web forms and want sso/scim cheap. Model both at the seat count you expect in 12 months — the cheaper option at 5 seats isn't always the cheaper option at 25.
Which has stronger encryption — LastPass or RoboForm?
LastPass uses AES-256-CBC with PBKDF2-SHA256 (iterations raised post-2022). RoboForm uses AES-256-CBC with PBKDF2-SHA256 (1,000,000 iterations). Both are zero-knowledge. In practice the cipher choice is rarely the differentiator — KDF (Argon2id vs PBKDF2), open-source clients, and audit history matter more.
Does either support SSO and SCIM on the cheapest team plan?
LastPass: SSO Business / add-on, SCIM Business and above. RoboForm: SSO Business (OIDC), SCIM Business. If SSO is non-negotiable, price it on the tier that includes it, not the entry tier.
Has either vendor had a vault breach?
LastPass: Yes — Aug & Nov 2022 (encrypted vault backups exfiltrated). RoboForm: No vault breach; pre-2015 PRNG flaw in generator; Android CVEs in 2025–26. A clean record isn't a guarantee, but a known prior incident materially raises the cost of trust.
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Also worth a read: The XChaCha20-Poly1305 explainer, our security model, and the free password generator.
Sources & further reading
- LastPass — Pricing
- LastPass — Incident disclosures (Aug & Nov 2022)
- LastPass — PBKDF2 iteration update
- RoboForm — Business pricing
- RoboForm Security Whitepaper (PDF)
- RoboForm — Secfault Security pentest summary (2025, PDF)
- CVE-2025-26700 (Android lockscreen bypass)
Worth fact-checking
- Vendor pricing for both LastPass and RoboForm has changed more than once in the past 24 months — verify on the official site before purchasing.
- SSO / SCIM tier inclusion can change between plans; confirm with vendor sales for your exact seat count.
Last updated May 2026. Vendor pricing and features change frequently — always confirm on the official site before purchasing. Pwdly is not affiliated with 1Password, Bitwarden, LastPass, or Dashlane.