Paid $180 for a password manager, then found the free option at work

Last month I signed up for a fancy password manager because I thought it would keep my business accounts safer. Cost me $180 for the year, and honestly it worked fine, but then our IT guy mentioned the free tool that comes with our business email subscription. I checked and it does the same thing, autofill, vault, even alerts when passwords leak. I wish I had asked around before throwing money at the first ad I saw. Has anyone else paid for something that turned out to be included in their existing setup?

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the_brian4d ago

Hold your horses on calling it "free" though. That tool is bundled into the subscription your company already pays for, so someone is still footing the bill. Might be your employer's budget instead of your wallet, but it's not like the software company is doing it out of the kindness of their heart. Still, I get your point, it's way better to use something that's already there than to pay extra out of pocket. Just don't tell your IT guy I said that, he'll start charging you for every plugin he mentions.