Comparison

U2 Secured vs LastPass

If you already have a LastPass account, the question is not which product is more famous — it's whether this move is worth the afternoon it takes. This page compares what each plan actually includes, sourced from both vendors' own pages, dated, and honest about where LastPass is ahead.

If you have already decided to move, the step-by-step import guide is a separate page — this one is for the decision itself.

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Who LastPass suits

LastPass is a reasonable choice for someone who wants a well-known name, is fine picking one device type on the free plan, and does not need TOTP codes stored anywhere near their passwords.

  • Someone who only ever unlocks their vault from one kind of device — a laptop, say, never a phone — and is comfortable with the free plan's device-type restriction.
  • A household that wants shared folders and a family manager dashboard without configuring anything else, and is willing to pay Families' still-unverified list price for it.
  • Someone whose two-factor codes already live somewhere else entirely — a separate authenticator app — so LastPass's own TOTP gap does not affect them either way.

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.

FeatureU2 SecuredLastPass
Free tier item limit500 itemsUnlimited password storage on Free

LastPass's free item count is genuinely unlimited; U2 Secured's is not. Said plainly rather than spun as a win.

Free tier device accessEvery surface, every plan — web vault, the browser extension, iOS and Android, with no device-type restrictionFree is limited to ONE device type: computer (all desktop/laptop browsers) OR mobile (phone, watch, tablet) — not both
TOTP codes for other sites, from inside the vaultFree and unlimited, in the separate U2 Secured Authenticator app — not stored in the vaultNot available on Premium or Families at any price — the "Time-based one-time passcodes (TOTP)" row is Teams/Business/Business Max only

Read from the grid's own icon markup: Premium and Families both show "no" for this row, Teams and both Business tiers show "yes".

Sharing with other peoplePublic share links only — no user-to-user or organisation sharing"Basic password sharing" on Free; Premium adds one-to-many sharing
Paid plan price and user count$60/yr for up to 5 users (billed per block of 5 users, floor 1 — one person on a paid plan pays for a full block)Premium is 1 user, Families is 6 users, both a single price — but the price itself renders client-side on both LastPass pages, so no verified figure is quoted here

Third-party sites quote LastPass numbers; this page only states what was read directly off lastpass.com, which does not include a price in its static markup.

two products, not one

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, which are 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.

Neither vendor offers TOTP-in-vault for free. The difference is where the free alternative lives: U2 Secured's Authenticator app is a real, free, unlimited product built for this; LastPass has no comparable free option for storing codes with a personal plan.

said plainly

Where LastPass is ahead

Stated plainly, because a page that only ever wins is not one LastPass's own engineers would call accurate.

  • LastPass's free tier holds an unlimited number of items. U2 Secured's free tier caps at 500. For a small vault this never matters; for a large one, it does, and LastPass wins on that number outright.
  • LastPass is a long-established name with a much larger footprint — Teams, Business and Business Max tiers, enterprise directory integrations, and years of market presence that U2 Secured, as a new product, has not built up yet.
  • Families gets a purpose-built family manager dashboard and shared folders in one plan, with no separate configuration step.

Pick U2 Secured if

  • You want your two-factor codes free, unlimited and in a dedicated app — not gated behind a business-tier upgrade you don't otherwise need.
  • You use more than one kind of device and don't want a free plan that picks one for you.
  • Group-based folder access control across an organisation matters to you, and you can live with 500 free items or a $5-per-block-of-5 paid plan.

Pick LastPass if

  • You already have a large vault — more than 500 items — and want to stay on a free plan rather than pay for room to grow.
  • One device type is genuinely all you use, and Families' shared-folder dashboard is exactly the shape of sharing you want.
  • You want a name with a longer track record and a fuller tier ladder, including business-scale plans this comparison does not cover.

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. For a vault under that size it makes no difference; for a larger one, LastPass's free tier goes further.
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.

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