Tool profile
Secrets management platform for syncing, rotating, auditing, and injecting environment secrets across teams and infrastructure.
Secrets management
Doppler is a developer-friendly secrets management platform for teams that have outgrown scattered .env files, copied credentials, and environment drift. It gives teams a central place to store secrets, organize projects and environments, sync configs to infrastructure, inject secrets through CLI and SDK workflows, rotate sensitive values, and audit access.
The product is especially useful when application teams want stronger security without making local development painful. Doppler competes with heavier enterprise secret stores and open-source alternatives, but its editorial strength is the day-to-day developer experience: local CLI workflows, config syncs, reminders, webhooks, service tokens, and team-level controls in one product. The cost model is seat-based, so large organizations should model user count carefully.
Quick fit
Editorial take
Doppler is most attractive when secrets sprawl is slowing developers down and creating security risk. Compare it against cloud-native secret managers if your infrastructure is single-cloud and against Infisical if open-source control is central.
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Pricing snapshot
Doppler lists Developer as free for 3 users with $8/month per additional user, Team at $21/month per user with a 14-day free trial, and Enterprise as custom pricing. Team add-ons such as custom roles, user groups, and increased integration syncs are listed at an additional $9/seat/month each.
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