Doppler vs Envshed

Doppler is a secrets manager for storing and managing sensitive application secrets through a dashboard, API, and command-line tool. It centralizes secret management with config syncs, secret referencing, and automatic rotation on eligible plans. Its MCP server lets AI agents request secrets natively, and Doppler says per-seat pricing adds no fees for AI agents or other non-human identities. Developers can use a CLI, SDKs, API, webhooks, and a VS Code extension with two-way sync. Listed integrations include AWS Secrets Manager, Terraform Cloud, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault, Vercel, and Okta. Security controls include scoped tokens, fine-grained access, breach detection, encrypted fallback files, and trusted IP allow lists. Doppler says it encrypts and tokenizes secrets using AES-256-GCM and is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified. Deployment is available in the cloud or on-prem. The Developer plan is free for three users, with additional users at $8 a month. Team costs $21 per user per month and is free for 14 days. Enterprise pricing is custom.

Envshed is a cloud secrets manager for small engineering teams, with a CLI that works across monorepos. It manages secrets and environments, supports per-user overrides, warns about expirations, allows project duplication and keeps an audit trail. For pnpm or npm workspaces, the CLI can detect workspaces and retrieve secrets from the repository root. Listed integrations include GitHub Actions, Docker, a Node.js SDK, a CLI for any shell and Coolify; a REST API supports languages including Python, Go and Rust. Secret values are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, traffic uses TLS 1.3, and encryption keys are held separately from encrypted data. Envshed offers role-based access control and an immutable audit trail, including records of secret reads and changes. The maker says it is not a zero-knowledge vault: a small on-call group with production credentials could technically decrypt a secret value. Data is stored in one region on US-based cloud infrastructure. Self-hosting is unavailable, and the service is not yet SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified. The Developer plan is free forever for up to two members and three projects; Team is $5/user/month and Business is $9/user/month.