1Password shows 370% YoY growth in Okta research report

1Password has never been more popular in the workplace. Okta’s 2026 “Businesses at Work” report reveals that, of the 8,000+ apps that Okta analyzed, “The security tool 1Password showed the highest industry-level growth, notching a 370% YoY increase in the technology sector.” 

This statistic refers specifically to the number of individual 1Password users on the Okta platform, indicating a sharp increase in the rollout and adoption of 1Password across business users. 

This growth is no coincidence. As 1Password becomes foundational to how employees build and operate AI-powered workflows, it is increasingly embedded in the critical path of the modern “AI builder.” The result is a surge in demand for secure access across tools, credentials, and agents, starting in the technology sector and expanding outward.

What drove 1Password’s growth on Okta's platform?

The stated purpose of Okta’s report is to: “...track how enterprise technology adoption continues to evolve, and… how identity strategies must evolve alongside it.” 

1Password’s dramatic growth among Okta customers reflects our company’s evolution. Our innovations in AI and agentic security are resonating deeply with enterprise customers, many of whom are seeking to adapt their identity security strategies to securely enable AI across their workforces and technology stacks.

Okta’s report also reveals that agentic AI is an urgent need, since 91% of the organizations they surveyed are using AI agents. The majority of those orgs, however, are in early or limited stages of agent deployment. It’s not hard to understand why; the identity and access risks posed by AI can significantly hamper a company’s ability to fully integrate agents into their workflows. 

Businesses have historically had limited ability to manage these risks or enforce company policies around AI use. 1Password’s 2025 Annual Report found that one in four employees has used AI applications that weren’t approved by their company, and over a third of employees admit to having knowingly disregarded their company’s AI policies. Employees regularly adopt shadow AI tools that can expose sensitive information in a variety of ways, and AI agents are an entirely new class of identities that present novel risks. As security analyst Francis Odum puts it, “Because existing access solutions were not designed for dynamic, probabilistic machine identities…This leads to over-privileged agents, limited auditability, and elevated data loss risk.” 

1Password has been making significant moves to enable businesses to embrace AI without sacrificing security. In the past year, this has included launching partnerships with AI leaders like Cursor, developing an AI Agent Security Benchmark to help businesses understand and manage the risks of different AI models, and deepening integrations between 1Password Enterprise Password Manager (EPM) and 1Password SaaS Manager to help teams manage shadow IT and AI. 

Most significantly, we recently launched 1Password® Unified Access, which lets teams discover, secure, and audit access across humans, agents, and machine identities, enabling organizations to adopt AI confidently and securely. 

1Password’s growth in the past year has been driven by our proven dedication to building the next layer of AI security, and that growth trajectory is only being accelerated through new and upcoming tools like just-in-time credential access for agents, secrets management for AI builders, and more. 

Strong security foundation accelerates growth

1Password’s rapid growth was reflected at other points within Okta’s report; we are the fastest growing app in Canada, and ranked 13th on the list of “most popular apps” within the startup category. As Okta puts it, “If the fastest growing apps represent new momentum, the most popular apps are the familiar platforms companies rely on, year after year.” 

In short, what this report indicates is that 1Password’s growth is being driven not only by our recent innovations, but by our strong foundation and reputation for security. Our rapidly growing number of users on the Okta platform is a testament to how deeply our offerings and principles have resonated with the modern enterprise.

This is only the beginning. 1Password’s commitment to serving the ever-evolving needs of our customers will continue to drive our innovation and growth in the years to come.

Want to see our innovations in action? Explore 1Password Unified Access.