# Doppler vs Phase (slim)

> Doppler scores 71.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Phase's 68 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Phase leads on maintenance & community. Both do secrets store. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Doppler scores 71.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Phase's 68 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Phase leads on maintenance & community. Both do secrets store.

- Doppler: BB 71.4, rank #110 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/doppler.min.md
- Phase: B 68, rank #194 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/phase.min.md
- Doppler, good for Teams that want a hosted store and a one-line `doppler run` wrapper for agents, with config-scoped read-only tokens. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 81 against 58. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.
- Phase, good for Small teams that want an open-source secrets manager hosted in the EU or self-hosted, with coding agents kept away from values through the CLI. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 83 against 76. Also Open source.

| Category | Doppler | Phase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 91 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 56 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 82 | 83 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Doppler | Phase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Doppler | Phi Security Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.doppler.com/v3` | `https://api.phase.dev` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (MCP server and CLI), closed platform | MIT outside the `ee/` directories, which are under the proprietary Phase Console Enterprise licence |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-21 | 2026-10-04 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-02-08 | 2025-10-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-17 | 2026-03-11 |
| Popularity | 8 stars, 3.3k npm/wk | 928 stars, 2.5k npm/wk, 235 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |