As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates 1Password 3/5 and heylogin 3/5 in Password Management. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 5 of the 6 judges pick 1Password and 0 pick heylogin, 1 calls it a tie. 1Password scores higher on 5 of 6 criteria (Audit logs, policies & reporting, SSO, directory sync & provisioning, Encryption model & independent audits, plus 2 more). heylogin scores higher on 1 of 6 criteria (European sovereignty). Provenance — 1Password: Rest of world; heylogin: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
On the computed table, 1Password has the higher mean on five of seven criteria: security architecture (7.0 vs 5.5), identity integration (7.2 vs 5.3), audit and policy (7.2 vs 4.3), deployment and portability (6.0 vs 5.3), and sharing and access control (7.0 vs 6.7, where 2 judges lean 1Password and 4 tie). heylogin leads sovereignty (6.7 vs 3.8) and pricing transparency (5.0 vs 1.0), with 6 judges leaning heylogin on each; the rubric notes 1Password publishes no prices and this is not held against it. Among published totals, 1Password leads with the CISO (6.5 vs 5.1), the identity engineer (6.6 vs 5.5), the compliance auditor (6.2 vs 5.9) and the skeptic (6.5 vs 5.1); the DevOps engineer ties at 6.1. Sovereignty attributes place 1Password in Canada, EU residency optional, subprocessor exposure US CLOUD Act; heylogin in Germany, EU-only residency and subprocessors — its captured pages give different pictures of the subprocessor chain.
Choose 1Password if
You need broad identity integration — 6 judges lean 1Password (7.2 vs 5.3), and the heylogin verdict records no public information found on single sign-on or SCIM.
Your compliance work depends on audit and policy — 6 judges lean 1Password (7.2 vs 4.3); heylogin's audit log is Enterprise-only.
You want deployment and portability — 4 judges lean 1Password and 2 tie (6.0 vs 5.3).
Security architecture is your first gate — 6 judges lean 1Password (7.0 vs 5.5).
Your security leadership reads the CISO bench — its weighted total is 6.5 for 1Password against 5.1 for heylogin.
Choose heylogin if
Sovereignty is your deciding criterion — 6 judges lean heylogin (6.7 vs 3.8).
You need published prices — 6 judges lean heylogin on pricing transparency (5.0 vs 1.0); heylogin Business is 3,99 € per user per month with annual billing, with Enterprise by sales contact.
Your data residency must be EU-only — heylogin's residency attribute is EU-only, while 1Password's is EU optional.
Your subprocessor chain must stay in the EU — heylogin's subprocessor exposure attribute is EU-only and 1Password's is US CLOUD Act; note heylogin's captured pages give different pictures of the subprocessor chain (security pages state exclusively European subprocessors, the privacy policy names an Australian breach-check provider).
Your vendor must be a German legal entity — heylogin's jurisdiction attribute is Germany (heylogin GmbH of Braunschweig); 1Password's is Canada.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Skeptic
Has read the breach post-mortems. Reads "zero knowledge" next to unencrypted URLs and item names, "independently audited" with no report, "SSO unlock" where the vendor holds half the key, and "admin recovery" that means the vendor can decrypt — and treats a missing incident history as an answer.
1Password
This judge's pick
heylogin
Criterion by criterion
Encryption model & independent audits
1Password
The security page names AES-GCM-256, PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256, a 128-bit Secret Key and SRP authentication, the privacy policy states the vendor cannot decrypt secure data, and the trust pages show SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 plus a public HackerOne bounty and published ISE and Onica assessments. I found no public list of which fields are and are not encrypted, no incident history, no open-source clients, and the vendor states it may withhold a report it has not published.
heylogin
The captured security pages name the algorithms (XSalsa20 with Poly1305, Curve25519), describe the cloud as a storage service unable to decrypt vaults, state an ISO 27001:2022 certificate for the company, and offer a security whitepaper — a documented design whose verification still rests on the vendor's own words. We found no public information on independent penetration tests or audit reports with published results, a bug bounty, or any disclosed incident history, and the whitepaper itself is only described, not shown, on the captured pages. Recovery at least has a stated key model: organisation vaults encrypted with admins' device security chips, with personal vaults stated as closed to admins.
Sharing, roles & recovery
1Password
Shared vaults with five permission levels, groups, guests, granular client settings down to concealing and printing passwords, and an admin recovery that reissues the Secret Key and account password are all documented. I found no statement of who holds which key while an account is mid-recovery, and no time-limited or emergency access with a waiting period on the captured pages.
heylogin
Teams with permission levels, hidden passwords, sharing logins with individual employees, sending and receiving passwords with external parties, and predefined plus custom per-role permissions are documented, and recovery is stated at the key level — organisation vaults encrypted under admins' security chips, admins stated unable to read personal vault passwords. We found no public information on time-limited or one-time sharing, emergency access with a waiting period, approval workflows, or the offboarding path for a leaver's items, and hidden passwords appears only as a help-centre heading without detail. Named capabilities, unstated guarantees.
SSO, directory sync & provisioning
1Password
SSO over OpenID Connect with named providers, provisioning that creates users, suspends on deprovisioning and revokes group access, and device-trust checks are documented, with the SSO unlock described as encrypted credentials plus a device key. I found no published statement that the vendor cannot derive the vault key under SSO unlock, and no hardware-key MFA named anywhere I read.
heylogin
Microsoft Entra ID and Google Workspace integrations import users and synchronise groups as teams whose membership, including removals, updates automatically, driving shared access through existing Entra groups, and unlocking with FIDO2 security keys, smartphone, Touch ID or Windows Hello is the documented default two-factor path. We found no public information on single sign-on as a sign-in mechanism with its key model, on SCIM, or on conditional-access and device policies, and passkeys appear only as a feature name. Group-synced permissions are real; the identity story ends before a documented sign-on trust model.
Audit logs, policies & reporting
1Password
Activity flows to sixteen named SIEM targets through an events API with configurable retention and selectable event types, client policies can block export, printing and sharing outside the app, and the reports include breach, Watchtower, adoption and twelve months of usage history. I found no claim that logs are tamper-evident and no auditor role that can read logs without access to secrets.
heylogin
The audit log, available in the Enterprise plan only with a sales contact, records website logins, password copies, password reveals and reveals of hidden fields, retains events for one year, and deliberately records nothing outside the organisation; breach monitoring with automatic admin notification is documented. We found no public information on exportable logs, an API or SIEM delivery, enforceable master-password or MFA policies, or sharing and export policies, while events for modified logins and user changes are described as upcoming rather than shipped. An auditor gets a partial trail today, not a complete one.
Hosting choice, offline access & export
1Password
EU, US or Canadian hosting is selectable, clients cover macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Linux and the browser, and import paths from named competitors are documented. But the export formats are an unencrypted plaintext file and a CSV limited to Login and Password items, export is blocked entirely under Unlock with SSO, and I found no self-hosted option and no incident history behind the status page on the captured pages.
heylogin
Clients cover iOS, Android, PC/Mac and the four major browsers, hosting is documented on named German infrastructure — Hetzner Nuremberg with a Falkenstein standby and IONOS backups — and import is documented from eleven named password managers, three browsers and CSV or Excel, with a settings-based export in which the user selects the data. We found no public information on offline access during a vendor outage, Linux clients, a status page with incident history, or the format and completeness of the export. The on-premises offering is described as a backup duplicating the encrypted data onto the customer's servers.
European sovereignty
1Password
The proven chain is Canadian end to end: AgileBits Inc. headquartered in Toronto, Ontario governing law, customer support and email hosted primarily in the United States and Canada, with AWS visible only inside a third-party audit description. The one European element is a selectable EU hosting region, with item-sharing data stored in the EU while the item is shared.
heylogin
The contracting entity is heylogin GmbH of Braunschweig, registered at the local court with a German VAT number; production and standby run at Hetzner in Nuremberg and Falkenstein with backups at IONOS in Germany; and a strict data processing agreement with European subprocessors plus an EVB-IT cloud contract for public bodies are offered. Ownership is not evidenced on the captured pages, the chain beyond hosting — support, analytics, email, client distribution — is unstated, and the privacy policy names an Australian breach-check provider while the security pages state exclusively European subprocessors are used, so the captured pages give different pictures of the chain. We found no public information on a self-hosted option; the on-premises offering is a backup copy.
Pricing transparency
1Password
The pricing page sends every buyer to a quote — "Unified Access pricing is tailored to your organization's needs" — and I found no public price figure for any tier on the captured pages. The terms describe only the shape of the bill: per user, monthly or yearly cycles, US dollars, taxes invoiced separately, and fees that are non-refundable.
heylogin
The Business tier is publicly priced at 3,99 € per user per month with annual billing, prices excluding VAT stated, and its features listed, while the private tier is free — enough for a small team to compute its own cost. The Enterprise tier, which holds the audit log, custom roles and the on-premises backup, is listed with its features and a sales contact rather than a price. We found no public information on seat minimums, add-on prices such as onboarding support, or the minimum term.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
1Password
heylogin
Legal entity
Not determined
Not determined
Ownership
Not determined
Not determined
Data residency
Not determined
Not determined
Subprocessors
US CLOUD Act reach
Not determined
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates both 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 5 of the 6 judges pick 1Password and 0 pick heylogin, 1 calls it a tie. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is 1Password or heylogin European?
1Password is not European by provenance (Rest of world). heylogin is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.