{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "doppler", "name": "Doppler", "vendor": "Doppler", "vendorUrl": "https://www.doppler.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "secrets", "summary": "Hosted secrets manager organised by project, environment and config.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/doppler", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/doppler.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/doppler.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/doppler.json", "repo": "https://github.com/DopplerHQ/mcp-server", "license": "Apache-2.0 (MCP server and CLI), closed platform", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.doppler.com/v3", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@dopplerhq/mcp-server" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Bearer tokens on api.doppler.com. Service tokens (`dp.st.\u003cenv\u003e.…`) are scoped to one config, read-only by default and can expire with `--max-age`. Service account identities exchange an OIDC token (GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, AWS EC2 or any issuer) for a short-lived Doppler token at POST /v3/auth/oidc, Team plan and above. The MCP server takes `DOPPLER_TOKEN` or `npx @dopplerhq/mcp-server login`.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Developer plan is free for 3 users then $8 a month per extra user, with 10 projects, 50 service tokens, 3-day activity logs and API-based rotation only. Team $21 a month per user with a 14-day trial, 250 projects, 500 service tokens, service accounts, automatic rotation, 90-day logs and SAML. Enterprise is custom, with dynamic secrets (AWS IAM and Azure service principals), proxied rotation, SCIM, on-prem and a 99.95% SLO. The pricing page says AI agents and non-human identities ride free, and doesn't say whether a card is needed (https://www.doppler.com/pricing, https://docs.doppler.com/docs/dynamic-secrets).", "priceSummary": "$21 / seat-mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 8, "npmWeekly": 3261, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.doppler.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.doppler.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.doppler.com/openapi/core.json", "capabilities": [ "secrets.store", "secrets.rotate", "secrets.machine-identity", "secrets.audit" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "typescript", "read-only-mode", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.6, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 79, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 25, "reliability": 90, "schema": 81, "security": 82, "transparency": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Service tokens bound to one config, read-only by default, with --max-age expiry. Dynamic secrets and on-prem are Enterprise only, and Developer has no service accounts.", "strengths": [ "Service tokens bound to one config, read-only by default, with --max-age expiry", "OIDC service account identities on Team, so shared runners don't hold a static token", "OpenAPI 3.1 and an llms.txt with about 500 Markdown links", "Published per-plan rate limits with retry-after and x-ratelimit headers on a 429", "MCP server with --read-only and --config modes that cut the tool list to 36 or 10" ], "weaknesses": [ "Dynamic secrets and on-prem are Enterprise only, and Developer has no service accounts", "The MCP server is experimental, has no tool annotations or value masking, and exposes up to 89 tools by default", "35 open CLI issues, most of the newest without a reply", "The CLI keeps serving its fallback file after a token is revoked, and sends anonymous analytics unless turned off", "No SLA, only a 99.95% SLO on Enterprise" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create a service token scoped to one config and read-only, then start the agent with `doppler run --token $DOPPLER_TOKEN -- \u003ccmd\u003e` so values never touch disk", "Start the MCP server with --read-only and --config as well as a scoped token; the server can't tell a token's permissions and would otherwise list write tools that fail", "Call /v3/configs/config/secrets/names when you only need names, and secrets/download?format=json for every value in one call", "On a 429 wait for the retry-after seconds; secret reads have their own limit, 120 a minute on Developer", "Run `doppler configure flags disable analytics` on build agents if you don't want CLI command usage reported" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 71.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 25, "reliability": 90, "schema": 81, "security": 82, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 90 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.doppler.com/v3/configs/config/secrets/download?format=json\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $DOPPLER_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add doppler -e DOPPLER_TOKEN=$DOPPLER_TOKEN -- npx -y @dopplerhq/mcp-server --read-only", "config": { "mcpServers": { "doppler": { "args": [ "-y", "@dopplerhq/mcp-server", "--read-only" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "DOPPLER_TOKEN": "${DOPPLER_TOKEN}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/doppler" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 21, "note": "14-day trial" }, { "item": "Developer plan, extra user", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 8, "note": "First 3 users free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Doppler Technologies, Inc.", "domain": "doppler.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-01-24", "domainNote": "doppler.com was registered in 1999, long before the company, so the domain was bought later.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.doppler.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.doppler.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.dopplerstatus.com", "changelog": "https://docs.doppler.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "Terms name Doppler Technologies, Inc., 440 North Barranca Avenue #5880, Covina, CA 91723, last updated 8 February 2026. Privacy notice updated 17 September 2026, data stored in the United States.", "www.doppler.com/.well-known/security.txt is disallowed by robots.txt, so we couldn't read it.", "www.dopplerstatus.com is Atlassian Statuspage. Its history shows one incident since 3 July 2026 (CLI downloads failing, 16 July) and system outages on 18 November 2025 and 12 June 2025.", "The subprocessor list (13 July 2026) names 9 subprocessors, 8 in the United States and Groundcover in Israel, and links a DPA and an on-prem DPA.", "The security fact sheet puts all servers in GCP us-central1 and says HackerOne handles disclosures." ], "score": 90 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/doppler.json", "live": { "slug": "doppler", "probe": { "target": "https://api.doppler.com/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:48:07.53668728Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 154, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 150, "p95ms24h": 214, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 898, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 270, "ok": 270 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.dopplerstatus.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:10.321433554Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "DopplerHQ/mcp-server", "version": "v1.0.5", "released": "2026-06-04", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:25:42.222400654Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@dopplerhq/mcp-server", "version": "1.0.5", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:25:41.357710821Z" } ], "githubStars": 8, "npmWeekly": 5296, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://doppler.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:42.3339237Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.doppler.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:31.061902909Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "doppler.com", "registered": "1999-01-24", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/doppler.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:29.130637863Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.doppler.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:35.303385156Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "816d6475b1bd" }, { "url": "https://www.doppler.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:08.235633812Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "61b46ac39ff9" }, { "url": "https://www.doppler.com/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:03.99159557Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "306950b580d5" }, { "url": "https://www.doppler.com/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:06.172772616Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "642e87a74245" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:10.321433554Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "google-secret-manager", "name": "Google Cloud Secret Manager", "vendor": "Google Cloud", "vendorUrl": "https://cloud.google.com/security/products/secret-manager", "kind": "http-api", "category": "secrets", "summary": "Google Cloud's managed service for storing and accessing application secrets.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-secret-manager", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-secret-manager.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-secret-manager.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-secret-manager.json", "repo": "https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python", "license": "Apache-2.0 (client libraries)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google-cloud/secret-manager" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-cloud-secret-manager" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens from a Google service account or workload identity (GKE, Cloud Run, GCE metadata server) with the cloud-platform scope. Grant roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor on the secret, not the project, and add IAM conditions for time or version limits. API keys don't work here.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$0.06 per active secret version per location a month (billed hourly at $0.000082192), $0.03 per 10,000 access operations and $0.05 per rotation notification. Management operations are free. Always free each month for 6 active versions, 10,000 access operations and 3 rotation notifications, and new customers get $300 of trial credit. A user-managed replication policy is charged per location; automatic replication counts as one (https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$0.06 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 4224871, "pypiWeekly": 13586494, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/secret-manager/docs", "capabilities": [ "secrets.store", "secrets.rotate", "secrets.machine-identity", "secrets.audit", "infra.cloud" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "usage-priced", "free-tier", "card-required", "typescript", "python", "go", "enterprise", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.6, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 26, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 20, "reliability": 87, "schema": 83, "security": 85, "transparency": 85 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Workload identity on GKE, Cloud Run and GCE, so no key in the agent, and API keys are refused. Managed rotation only covers Cloud SQL; other rotation is a Pub/Sub notification you handle.", "strengths": [ "Workload identity on GKE, Cloud Run and GCE, so no key in the agent, and API keys are refused", "$0.06 a version a month and $0.03 per 10,000 accesses, with 6 versions and 10,000 accesses a month free", "IAM conditions and per-secret roles, with version_destroy_ttl to delay destruction", "Regional secrets for data residency and multi-region storage in US, EU, Canada and India", "99.95% SLA with credits, and five dated release notes between 12 July and 14 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Managed rotation only covers Cloud SQL; other rotation is a Pub/Sub notification you handle", "Secret reads are Data Access audit logs, which you have to enable", "Global secrets accept only 2 version writes a second, and AddSecretVersion has no request ID for safe retries", "No llms.txt and no Secret Manager MCP server", "Off Google Cloud you need a service account key or workload identity federation, and a billing account with a card" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pin to a version number in production and use versions/latest only in development, since latest moves when anyone adds a version", "Grant roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor on the individual secret and add an IAM condition with an expiry for a short-lived agent", "Turn on Data Access audit logs for secretmanager.googleapis.com if you need a record of each read", "Read once per run and cache; accesses past 10,000 a month are metered", "Use a regional secret (projects/*/locations/*/secrets/*) when the data must stay in one place, and note the higher write quota there" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.6, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 76.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 20, "reliability": 87, "schema": 83, "security": 85, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 100 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install google-cloud-secret-manager # or: npm i @google-cloud/secret-manager", "http": "curl \"https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1/projects/$GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT/secrets/db-password/versions/latest:access\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/google-secret-manager" }, "sameCompany": [ "gemini-api", "gemini-embedding", "vertex-ai-tuning", "google-model-armor", "google-imagen", "google-veo", "google-lyria", "google-speech-to-text", "google-adk", "google-weather-api", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "google-drive-api", "gemini-cli" ], "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Active secret version", "unit": "month", "usd": 0.06, "note": "Per version per location a month" }, { "item": "Access operations", "unit": "1k-calls", "usd": 0.003, "note": "$0.03 per 10,000 operations" }, { "item": "Rotation notification", "unit": "message", "usd": 0.05, "note": "Per SECRET_ROTATE message to Pub/Sub" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC (Google Cloud EMEA Limited and other regional entities by billing address)", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "domainNote": "The API lives at secretmanager.googleapis.com and the docs at docs.cloud.google.com, both Google domains.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cloud.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.google.com", "changelog": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/secret-manager/docs/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service point to cloud.google.com/terms/google-entity, which names Google LLC for the United States and fourteen regional entities including Google Cloud EMEA Limited.", "www.google.com/.well-known/security.txt expires 2030-04-01 (30 September check).", "status.cloud.google.com/incidents.json had no incident tagged Secret Manager between 1 July and 1 October 2026.", "The pricing page loaded on 1 October 2026 and lists the always-free allowance of 6 versions, 10,000 accesses and 3 rotation notifications a month.", "The subprocessor page was last modified on 20 August 2026 and links the Cloud Data Processing Addendum." ], "score": 100 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-secret-manager.json", "live": { "slug": "google-secret-manager", "probe": { "target": "https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:48:08.987529648Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 30, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 32, "p95ms24h": 71, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 898, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 270, "ok": 270 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "googleapis/google-cloud-python", "version": "sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.3", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:28:49.436472732Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google-cloud/secret-manager", "version": "7.1.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:28:48.415664025Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-cloud-secret-manager", "version": "2.31.0", "released": "2026-10-01", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:28:49.252525474Z" } ], "githubStars": 5400, "npmWeekly": 4594649, "pypiWeekly": 13607832, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:53.387118101Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "google.com", "registered": "1997-09-15", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/google.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:50.737985829Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/secret-manager/docs/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:27.397826729Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3ec2c74e5d97" }, { "url": "https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:57.453677516Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e746ddcf80cb" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:48:08.987529648Z" } }, "summary": "Google Cloud Secret Manager has a score of 76.6 (BB) against Doppler's 71.6 (BB). Both do secrets store. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 23 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-google-secret-manager", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-google-secret-manager.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-google-secret-manager.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-google-secret-manager.min.md" }, "markdown": "Google Cloud Secret Manager has a score of 76.6 (BB) against Doppler's 71.6 (BB). Both do secrets store. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 23 points.\n\n- Doppler: grade BB, 71.6/100, rank #79 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/doppler.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/doppler.json\n- Google Cloud Secret Manager: grade BB, 76.6/100, rank #26 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-secret-manager.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-secret-manager.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Doppler for payments \u0026 pricing (+5).\n\nPick Google Cloud Secret Manager for agent ergonomics (+23), maintenance \u0026 community (+11), transparency \u0026 trust (+8).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Doppler | Google Cloud Secret Manager | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 87 | Doppler +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 83 | Google Cloud Secret Manager +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 82 | Google Cloud Secret Manager +23 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 82 | 85 | Google Cloud Secret Manager +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 20 | Doppler +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 87 | Google Cloud Secret Manager +11 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 85 | Google Cloud Secret Manager +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.6 · BB** | **76.6 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Doppler | Google Cloud Secret Manager |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Doppler | Google Cloud |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.doppler.com/v3` | `https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (MCP server and CLI), closed platform | Apache-2.0 (client libraries) |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-21 | 2026-09-14 |\n| Popularity | 8 stars, 3.3k npm/wk | 4.2M npm/wk, 13.6M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.6/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Doppler.** Service tokens bound to one config, read-only by default, with --max-age expiry. Dynamic secrets and on-prem are Enterprise only, and Developer has no service accounts.\n\n**Google Cloud Secret Manager.** Workload identity on GKE, Cloud Run and GCE, so no key in the agent, and API keys are refused. Managed rotation only covers Cloud SQL; other rotation is a Pub/Sub notification you handle.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Doppler\n\n1. Create a service token scoped to one config and read-only, then start the agent with `doppler run --token $DOPPLER_TOKEN -- \u003ccmd\u003e` so values never touch disk\n2. Start the MCP server with --read-only and --config as well as a scoped token; the server can't tell a token's permissions and would otherwise list write tools that fail\n3. Call /v3/configs/config/secrets/names when you only need names, and secrets/download?format=json for every value in one call\n4. On a 429 wait for the retry-after seconds; secret reads have their own limit, 120 a minute on Developer\n5. Run `doppler configure flags disable analytics` on build agents if you don't want CLI command usage reported\n\n### Google Cloud Secret Manager\n\n1. Pin to a version number in production and use versions/latest only in development, since latest moves when anyone adds a version\n2. Grant roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor on the individual secret and add an IAM condition with an expiry for a short-lived agent\n3. Turn on Data Access audit logs for secretmanager.googleapis.com if you need a record of each read\n4. Read once per run and cache; accesses past 10,000 a month are metered\n5. Use a regional secret (projects/*/locations/*/secrets/*) when the data must stay in one place, and note the higher write quota there\n\n## Other comparisons with Doppler or Google Cloud Secret Manager\n\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Doppler](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-doppler.md)\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) vs Doppler](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-doppler.md)\n- [Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Doppler](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-doppler.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs Doppler](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-vs-doppler.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [Doppler vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [Doppler vs Infisical](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-infisical.md)\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager vs Infisical](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-infisical.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-04", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Doppler vs Google Cloud Secret Manager", "url": "" } ], "description": "Google Cloud Secret Manager has a score of 76.6 (BB) against Doppler's 71.6 (BB). 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