Secretbox and Doppler Team solve the same problem from opposite directions: one is source-available software you can own outright for $39, the other is a subscription at $12/user/mo run entirely on someone else's servers.
Head to head
| Secretbox | Doppler Team | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39 once | $12/user/mo |
| 5-person team, 3 years | $39 | ~$2,160 |
| Encrypted at rest | Yes, envelope AES-256-GCM | Yes |
| Your secrets on your server | Yes | No |
| Versioning + rollback | Yes | Yes |
| Env diff | Yes | Yes |
| CLI pull / run injection | Yes | Yes |
| Audit log | Yes | Higher tiers only |
What Secretbox does well
- Envelope encryption at rest — Every value gets its own random AES-256-GCM data key, wrapped by a master key that lives only in your .env and never in the database.
- Projects and environments — Organize projects into dev, staging, prod and custom environments, with secret versioning and one-click rollback.
- Audit-logged reveals — Every reveal, pull, edit and rollback is recorded with who, what and when.
- Environment diff — See which keys are missing or different between dev and prod without exposing the values.
What Doppler Team still does better
There's a real reason Doppler Team costs what it does: a bigger team, broader integrations and dedicated support behind it. If that ecosystem is genuinely what you need, it's worth paying for.
Which one should you pick
If your workflow depends on Doppler Team's specific integrations or you'd rather not run anything yourself, stay put — that's a legitimate call. If you're comfortable owning the tool and want to stop paying $12/user/mo for a job your own hardware can do, Secretbox pays for itself and then some: under four months of Doppler for a five-person team already costs more than Secretbox, which then never charges per seat again.
Try Secretbox — $39, once
Projects, environments and versioned secrets with a CLI that pipes straight into your .env.