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1Password Lets AI Agents Sign In Without Passwords

The identity security firm's controls keep credentials away from AI models, a category whose non-human account growth it reports at 500 percent year over year.

Updated on Nov. 2, 2026 in Cybersecurity

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1Password says its new controls let AI agents request sign-in credentials without ever receiving the password, as the company reports 500 percent year-over-year growth in non-human account security. AI Illustration. Upload story photo >

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1Password, a Canadian identity security company, has surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serves more than 200,000 businesses. The growth is reported as company-disclosed results; the figures are not independently audited in the source.

Why it matters

Demand for securing AI agents is emerging as a meaningful growth driver for identity security vendors. Net new ARR grew roughly 60 percent through the first three quarters of fiscal 2026 and about 90 percent year over year in Q3, suggesting the category is accelerating rather than plateauing.

The company reports that customers adopting developer and AI security tools generate ARR growth about five times faster than other customers. Monthly active non-human identities, such as AI agents and automated services, grew 500 percent year over year, compared with 200 percent growth in monthly active human users.

The players

1Password

A Canadian identity security company whose products manage passwords and credentials for businesses and individuals, now extending into controls for AI agents.

The details

1Password for Agents lets an individual approve an AI agent's access to an online account without handing the agent the password itself. When the agent needs to sign in, it identifies itself to 1Password and requests a stored credential. The user approves the request on their own device, and 1Password then fills the credential directly into the sign-in form, so the AI model never sees the secret.

Timeline

  1. Net new ARR growth of roughly 60 percent covers the first three quarters of fiscal 2026.

  2. Net new ARR growth of roughly 90 percent year over year was recorded in Q3 of fiscal 2026.

The Tech Race

Identity security vendors are moving to treat AI agents as a distinct class of account holder that needs its own credentials and approval controls. 1Password's disclosed growth in non-human identities, up 500 percent year over year, indicates the company is positioning in that emerging category against other identity providers.

Users of 1Password can approve AI agent access to a sign-in from their own device without giving the agent their password. The source does not give pricing or a general availability date for 1Password for Agents, and it notes that some personal AI agent integrations are available while others are still in development.

The takeaway

The main trajectory is that AI agents are becoming a distinct class of account holder requiring their own credential controls. Watch whether 1Password publishes the share of ARR tied to developer and AI security tools, since that figure would show how much of the growth the agent category is actually driving.

Further reading

For context on how credentials and access controls are being adapted to automated systems, explore the Cybersecurity section.

Source note: This article includes information reported by Biometric Update.

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