This free password generator creates strong, random passwords using your browser’s built-in cryptographic randomness, the same source security software relies on. There are no patterns, no dictionary words, and no reused templates: every click draws a fresh password that cannot be predicted from the ones before it.
Generation happens entirely in your browser: generating, regenerating, or copying a password makes no request to our server. We do not sell a password manager, so nothing in the guidance below is a pitch for one.
How to Use the Password Generator
Set your length with the slider: anywhere from 3 to 50 characters, with 14 as the default because that is the modern baseline for a strong password. Then choose what goes into it. The three presets give you quick starting points: Easy To Say sticks to letters only, useful when you might read a password aloud; Easy To Read starts with letters but lets you switch numbers and symbols back on; All Characters, the default, uses everything. Alongside the presets, four toggles control the character pool directly: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and a set of eight symbols ($ @ ! % * # ? &). When the result looks right, hit Copy to send it to your clipboard, or Regenerate for a fresh one with the same settings.
One practical tip: some websites reject certain symbols in passwords. If a site refuses your password, either regenerate until the symbols it dislikes are gone or switch symbols off and increase the length by a few characters instead. Length makes up the difference.
What Makes a Password Strong?
Three things, in order of importance: it is long, it is random, and it is unique to one account. Length matters more than clever complexity tricks. This is not just our opinion; it is the position of NIST’s digital identity guidelines, the US federal guidance on password policy, which favors length over forced complexity rules. Randomness matters because cracking software does not guess alphabetically: it tries leaked passwords, dictionary words, and common patterns first, at billions of attempts per second. A random string gives that software nothing to work with.
Uniqueness is the quiet one that gets people hacked. When a website is breached, attackers take the leaked passwords and try them on email, banking, and shopping accounts everywhere else. This is called credential stuffing, and it works because most people reuse passwords. A strong password used on two sites is only as safe as the weaker site.
How Long Should Your Password Be?
Fourteen characters or more for anything that matters, which is why the slider defaults to 14. For your email, your bank, and especially your password manager’s master password, go to 16 or 20. Every character you add multiplies the time an attacker needs, and the growth is steep:
| Length | Letters only | Letters and numbers | All character types |
|---|
| 8 characters | about 9 minutes | about 36 minutes | about 1.6 hours |
| 12 characters | about 120 years | about 1,000 years | about 4,400 years |
| 14 characters | about 335,000 years | about 3.9 million years | about 21 million years |
| 16 characters | about 900 million years | about 15 billion years | about 105 billion years |
These are rough figures for trying every possible combination at an assumed 100 billion guesses per second against a fast, unsalted hash. The columns use pools of 52 characters (upper and lower case letters), 62 (letters and numbers) and 70 (this tool’s full set). Sites that store passwords with a slow hash such as bcrypt are far harder to crack, and real timelines vary with the attacker’s resources. The takeaway does not: length is the single cheapest way to buy security, and a longer letters-only password can beat a short “complex” one.
Easy To Say, Easy To Read, or All Characters?
All Characters is the right choice whenever the password lives in a password manager or a saved login, which should be most of the time. Maximum variety per character means maximum strength per character.
The two letters-only presets trade some of that variety for practicality. Easy To Say suits passwords you might dictate over the phone or read to someone across the room, since letters survive speech better than symbols. Easy To Read is a middle ground for passwords you type by hand on a TV remote or a game console, and it keeps numbers and symbols available to toggle back on. If you use either preset, compensate with length: push the slider higher to make up for the smaller character pool. And if any generated password contains characters you find easy to confuse, just regenerate until you get one you like.
Where to Store Your Passwords
A random 16-character password is not meant to be memorized, and that is fine. The right home for it is a reputable password manager, which stores every login encrypted behind one master password and fills them in for you. Any well-reviewed manager works; we do not sell one and have no favorite to push. If a manager is not an option, even a notebook kept somewhere safe at home beats reusing one password everywhere, because the most common attack is a leaked password tried across your other accounts, not a burglar reading your desk drawer.
Two more habits close the loop. Turn on two-factor authentication wherever it is offered, so a stolen password alone is not enough to get in. And check whether passwords you already use have appeared in known breaches with Have I Been Pwned, a free service that searches billions of leaked credentials. Anything that shows up there should be replaced today; generate its replacement right at the top of this page.
Common Password Mistakes
- Letter swaps like P@ssw0rd. Cracking dictionaries include the common substitutions, so the @ and the 0 add almost nothing. Genuine randomness is what defeats a dictionary, not decoration.
- Personal information. Names, birthdays, pets, and street names are the first guesses, because so much of that information is public or leaked.
- Keyboard walks. qwerty, 123456, and zxcvbn patterns are on the lists that cracking tools try first.
- Reusing one password everywhere. The single most damaging habit; one breached site unlocks all the others.
- Changing passwords on a schedule. Forced rotation is outdated advice that pushes people toward weaker, pattern-based passwords. NIST’s current guidance is to change a password when there is evidence it has been compromised, such as a breach. Changing one after using a shared device, or whenever you suspect a problem, is a sensible habit on top of that.
Test, Generate, and Go
Not sure how a password you already use holds up? Run it through our free password strength checker for an instant read. If you run a WordPress site, our WordPress password generator turns a password you enter into a WordPress-compatible hash. And if you are curious what happens to a password after a site receives it, our MD5 hash generator shows how hashing turns a password into a stored fingerprint, and why sites should never keep the real thing.
