U2 Secured vs LastPass
Two things are worth knowing if you're on LastPass today: Free restricts you to one device type — desktop or mobile, never both — and vault-integrated TOTP isn't available on Premium or Families at any price; LastPass reserves it for Teams and Business. U2 Secured has no device-type restriction on any plan, and TOTP is free and unlimited in the separate U2 Secured Authenticator app, not a business-tier upgrade.
What follows is the full comparison, sourced directly from lastpass.com and dated. If you've already decided to move, the step-by-step import guide is linked below.
Who U2 Secured suits
Built for a reader who moves between devices freely and wants a second factor that is never gated behind a business plan.
- Anyone who switches between a laptop and a phone and doesn't want a free plan that picks one device type for them.
- Anyone who wants TOTP codes free and unlimited without a business-tier upgrade — LastPass reserves vault-integrated TOTP for Teams and above.
- An organisation that wants group-based folder access control on Basic or Premium.
What each plan actually includes
Every LastPass figure below is read from lastpass.com — the citation link on each row goes straight to it, dated the day it was read.
Two products, not one, and LastPass personal plans have neither at the vault level
Competitors sell both factors in one vault. U2 Secured sells them as two products, deliberately kept apart, because a password and its second factor in one store are not two factors.
U2 Secured's TOTP codes live in the separate U2 Secured Authenticator app, free and unlimited. They are never written to the password vault — import lifts a seed out and hands it back as a QR code rather than storing it.
LastPass's own plan-comparison grid shows its vault-integrated TOTP row as unavailable on Premium and Families — the two plans an individual or a family actually buys. It only turns on for Teams and Business, organisational plans with a very different buyer. A LastPass Premium subscriber who wants TOTP next to their passwords cannot get it by upgrading; they would need a business account.
U2 Secured's Authenticator app is a real, free, unlimited product built for exactly this. LastPass has no comparable free option for storing codes on a personal plan.
Where LastPass is ahead
Stated once, factually.
- LastPass's free tier holds an unlimited number of items; U2 Secured's caps at 500 — ample for most personal vaults, a real ceiling for a very large one.
- Families bundles a purpose-built family manager dashboard and shared folders into one plan, with no separate configuration step.
Choose U2 Secured if
- You use more than one kind of device and don't want a free plan that restricts you to one.
- You want TOTP free, unlimited and in a dedicated app — not gated behind a business-tier upgrade you don't otherwise need.
- Group-based folder access control matters to you, and 500 free items or a $5-per-block-of-5 paid plan works for your vault.
What LastPass's plans optimise for
- No item cap on Free, so a very large personal vault never forces an upgrade.
- A shared-folder dashboard and family manager tools packaged into Families, with no separate setup.
- A longer operating history and a fuller tier ladder — Teams, Business, Business Max — for buyers who expect to grow into an enterprise plan.
Said out loud, not left for you to discover
- Passwords and TOTP with U2 Secured are two products, not one subscription — the vault and the free U2 Secured Authenticator app.
- A single person on Basic still pays for a full 5-user block: $60/yr for up to 5 users, whether one seat is used or five.
- No group folders on free (max_groups = 0) — group-based folder access needs Basic or Premium.
- U2 Secured is a new product with no published third-party security audit yet. LastPass has operated for far longer.
Questions people actually ask
- Does U2 Secured store two-factor (TOTP) codes?
- Yes — free and unlimited, in the separate U2 Secured Authenticator app. They are deliberately not stored in the password vault itself, because a password and its second factor in one store are not two factors. LastPass's own vault-integrated TOTP is unavailable on its Premium and Families plans; only Teams and Business get it.
- Is LastPass Free really limited to one device type?
- Yes, by LastPass's own description: Free access is restricted to a single device type — either all your desktop/laptop browsers, or your mobile devices, not both at once. U2 Secured has no device-type restriction on any plan.
- Is U2 Secured cheaper than LastPass?
- U2 Secured Basic is $60/yr for up to 5 users. LastPass does not publish a price in its page's static markup — Premium and Families both render as placeholders client-side — so this page does not claim a specific LastPass number to compare against.
- Does LastPass Free hold more items than U2 Secured Free?
- Yes. LastPass states its free plan has unlimited password storage. U2 Secured's free plan holds 500 items — enough for a typical personal vault, though a very large one will reach it before LastPass's uncapped free tier would.
- Can I move my LastPass vault into U2 Secured?
- Yes — the web vault imports a LastPass CSV export directly, encrypting each item in your browser. The full step-by-step guide, including what does and does not come across, is the switch guide linked below.
Sources for the LastPass side
Every LastPass figure above was read directly from lastpass.com's own markup on the date shown, not from a third-party pricing summary. LastPass changes its site from time to time; if a plan has changed, these pages are the authority and this comparison is out of date.
- LastPass — Pricing · read 2026-09-25
- LastPass — Premium vs. Free · read 2026-09-25
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