Envshed vs Doppler
Doppler is a polished secrets manager built for mid-sized teams at mid-sized prices. Envshed is built for the smaller teams Doppler outgrew — flat $5/user, monorepo-native, and SSO that doesn't require a sales call.
Doppler does a lot well. A broad integrations catalog, a mature CLI, dashboards your security team will recognize. The moment you cross the free tier, though, the bill jumps to $18 per seat per month and SAML SSO sits behind an Enterprise conversation. For a three-person team that just needs encrypted env vars in CI, in a monorepo, and on a laptop — that's a lot of invoice for a feature surface you won't touch.
Envshed is the opposite trade. Flat $5 per user per month on Team, $9 on Business with SAML. A .envshed.json at the root of your monorepo auto-detects every workspace. Pull, push, run, export — most of what a small team actually needs, in one place, without a procurement cycle.
Feature comparison
| Envshed | Doppler | |
|---|---|---|
Starting paid price | $5/user/month | $18/seat/month (Team) |
Free tier | 2 users · 3 projects · unlimited secrets | 5 users · limited projects |
SAML SSO tier | $9/user/month (Business) | Enterprise (contact sales) |
Encryption at rest | AES-256-GCM | AES-256-GCM |
Monorepo-native config | Yes — .envshed.json auto-detects workspaces | Per-project setup |
CLI | envshed (pull, push, run, export) | doppler |
Audit log | Team tier | Team tier |
Service tokens for CI/CD | Yes | Yes |
Plaintext export | envshed export dumps full JSON | Dashboard export |
Self-hosted | On roadmap | No |
Integrations catalog | 5 shipped (GitHub Actions, Docker, Node SDK, CLI, Coolify) + 8 on roadmap with public ETAs + 1 community vote | 50+ integrations |
Dynamic secrets | No | No |
Source:
Doppler pricing and feature references verified from doppler.com/pricing on April 17, 2026. Figures change — verify on the source before quoting.
When Doppler is the right choice
- You need 50+ pre-built integrations working today.
- Your team is large enough that a broad platform pays for itself.
- Your buyer expects an established vendor with case studies and a sales team.
When Envshed is the right choice
- You want flat, predictable pricing — $5/user, not $18/seat.
- Your code lives in a monorepo and one .envshed.json beats five dashboards.
- You want SAML SSO at $9/user, not behind an Enterprise sales cycle.
- You're an indie dev or small team that just needs encrypted env var sync.
Migrating from Doppler
Shipped. One CLI command reads every Doppler project, fetches every secret per config, and mirrors the whole layout into Envshed — projects, environments, values. Review the plan first with --dry-run.
npx envshed import --from doppler --token <doppler-token> --org <your-org>doppler secrets download --format env --no-file > .env && envshed import .envYou can still pipe Doppler's native export through envshed import if you'd rather review the dump before pushing.
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