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Password Comparison Tool

Enter two passwords and compare their strength, entropy, and estimated crack time side by side.

Why compare passwords?

Most people know that some passwords are stronger than others — but without hard numbers, it's easy to underestimate the gap. A password like Summer2024! looks reasonable at first glance: it has uppercase, lowercase, a digit, and a symbol. But it's only 11 characters drawn from a restricted pattern, giving it roughly 52 bits of entropy — enough to survive a casual online attack, but crackable in seconds by a GPU-based offline attacker using dictionary rules.

Compare it side by side with a randomly generated 16-character password like kR9#mTpQ@vLx2Zn! — 104 bits of entropy, billions of years to crack at any realistic speed — and the difference becomes impossible to ignore.

Use this tool to evaluate passwords you're considering, test old passwords before reusing them, or help someone in your family or team understand why "their current password" isn't safe enough.

Password A

Password B

Understanding the metrics

  • Entropy (bits) — A mathematical measure of unpredictability. Each additional bit doubles the number of possible passwords. 60+ bits is good; 80+ is strong; 100+ is excellent. Use our entropy calculator to explore this further.
  • Charset size — The number of unique characters in the pool the password draws from. Lowercase only = 26; + uppercase = 52; + digits = 62; + symbols ≈ 94. A larger charset multiplies combinations at every character position.
  • Crack time — Estimated time assuming a 10 billion guesses/second offline attack (a realistic GPU-based scenario against a stolen hash). Rate-limited online attacks are far slower; nation-state hardware is faster. Dictionary attacks can be much faster on predictable passwords.

All analysis is done locally in your browser — passwords are never sent anywhere.

Example comparisons

sunshinevsrX9#mKpQ

The random 8-char mix is ~8× more unpredictable — even though both are short.

Password1!vscorrect-horse-battery-staple

A classic dictionary word + number + symbol vs a 4-word passphrase. The passphrase wins easily on length.

qwerty123456vsT7@vLqN2#dPxBr8!

Keyboard walk + numbers vs a 16-char random password. The random password has ~50 more bits of entropy.

Frequently Asked Questions