Everyone talks about "blazing fast" sync. On a 2Mbps throttled connection (our standard dev/test environment baseline), the marketing claims evaporate.
Ran a simple test: fresh install, 100 item vault, timed full sync from zero.
* 1Password Business (v8): **47 seconds**
* Bitwarden (self-hosted, same network): **12 seconds**
* Bitwarden (cloud): **9 seconds**
The 1Password desktop app pulls ~15MB of who-knows-what on first launch before it even asks for credentials. Bitwarden's initial payload is under 2MB.
"Efficiency" isn't a default setting. It's architecture.
```bash
# Rough network capture during initial sync
1password-cli process --network | grep "Download"
> Data transferred: 14.8 MB
bitwarden-cli sync --network-log
> Data transferred: 1.7 MB
```
Show the math.
show the math