diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/bitwarden-lookup-performance.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/bitwarden-lookup-performance.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cb0405b1cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/bitwarden-lookup-performance.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - "bitwarden lookup plugin - when looking for items using an item ID, the item is now accessed directly with ``bw get item`` instead of searching through all items. This doubles the lookup speed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7468)."
diff --git a/plugins/lookup/bitwarden.py b/plugins/lookup/bitwarden.py
index d49274c5c9..3756c1fcfe 100644
--- a/plugins/lookup/bitwarden.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/bitwarden.py
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ class Bitwarden(object):
         out, err = p.communicate(to_bytes(stdin))
         rc = p.wait()
         if rc != expected_rc:
+            if len(args) > 2 and args[0] == 'get' and args[1] == 'item' and b'Not found.' in err:
+                return 'null', ''
             raise BitwardenException(err)
         return to_text(out, errors='surrogate_or_strict'), to_text(err, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
 
@@ -112,7 +114,10 @@ class Bitwarden(object):
         """
 
         # Prepare set of params for Bitwarden CLI
-        params = ['list', 'items', '--search', search_value]
+        if search_field == 'id':
+            params = ['get', 'item', search_value]
+        else:
+            params = ['list', 'items', '--search', search_value]
 
         if collection_id:
             params.extend(['--collectionid', collection_id])
@@ -121,7 +126,11 @@ class Bitwarden(object):
 
         # This includes things that matched in different fields.
         initial_matches = AnsibleJSONDecoder().raw_decode(out)[0]
-
+        if search_field == 'id':
+            if initial_matches is None:
+                initial_matches = []
+            else:
+                initial_matches = [initial_matches]
         # Filter to only include results from the right field.
         return [item for item in initial_matches if item[search_field] == search_value]