GrowthBook vs Doppler
Open-source feature flags + experimentation — Warehouse Native
vs. The secrets management platform for dev teams — sync env vars everywhere
Pricing tiers
GrowthBook
Open Source (Self-Host)
MIT-licensed. Unlimited everything. Community support.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Starter (Free)
Up to 3 users. Unlimited flags + experiments. Warehouse Native included.
Free
Cloud — Pro
$40/user/month. Up to 50 users. Advanced stats, visual A/B editor, CUPED, sequential testing, bandits.
$40/mo
Cloud — Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited users, SSO/SAML, approval flows, data pipelines, exportable audit logs.
Custom
Self-Host Enterprise
Open Source + Enterprise license. Visual A/B editor, advanced metrics, SSO/SAML, approvals, training.
Custom
Doppler
Developer
$0. 5 users. Unlimited projects + secrets. Community support. For hobby/startups.
$0 base (usage-based)
Team
$18/user/mo. Unlimited projects, audit log, secret sharing, 14-day history.
$18/mo
Business
$36/user/mo. SSO (Google), advanced RBAC, 90-day audit + history, change requests.
$36/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SAML, SCIM, HIPAA, unlimited audit, dedicated support, SLA.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing oss on GrowthBook vs developer on Doppler.
| Metric | GrowthBook | Doppler |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
GrowthBook · 15 features
- Approval Flows — Require reviewer approval on flag changes. Enterprise.
- Audit Logs — Full change history. Exportable on Enterprise.
- Dimensions & Slicing — Break down experiment results by user dimensions.
- Edge SDK Support — Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Fastly, Akamai EdgeWorkers, Netlify Edge.
- Experiments — A/B/n with CUPED variance reduction + sequential testing.
- Feature Flags — Boolean + string + number + JSON flags with targeting.
- Feature Reviews (PR-style) — Draft → review → approve flag changes.
- Guardrail Metrics — Auto-monitor key metrics during experiments.
- Metric Catalog — Define + reuse metrics across experiments.
- Multi-Armed Bandits — Adaptive traffic allocation. Pro+.
- Safe Rollouts — Guarded gradual rollouts with automatic rollback.
- SSO / SAML — Enterprise SSO for cloud + self-host EE.
- Sticky Bucketing — User stays in variant even after eligibility changes.
- Visual A/B Test Editor — No-code DOM editor for web experiments. Pro+.
- Warehouse Native — Connect your warehouse + run experiments against your events data.
Doppler · 15 features
- Audit Log — Who accessed what, when.
- Auto Rotation — Rotate cloud/API keys.
- Branch Configs — dev/staging/prod as branches.
- Change Requests — PR approvals for prod changes.
- Doppler CLI — Command-line access.
- E2E Encryption — Client-side encryption.
- Local Dev Injection — `doppler run` injects env vars.
- OIDC (CI/CD) — Short-lived tokens for GitHub Actions, etc.
- RBAC — Granular project + config roles.
- SCIM — User provisioning.
- Secret History — Full version history + restore.
- Secret References — Point to secrets from other projects.
- Secrets Sync — Auto-sync to 100+ destinations.
- SSO (Google, SAML) — Enterprise auth.
- Webhooks — Secret-change events.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | GrowthBook | Doppler |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | doppler CLI |
| SDK | Edge SDKs (CF Workers / Lambda@Edge / Fastly / Akamai), growthbook-android, growthbook-flutter, growthbook-go, growthbook-java, growthbook-node, growthbook-php, growthbook-python, growthbook-ruby, growthbook-swift, sdk-javascript, sdk-react | @dopplerhq/node-sdk, doppler-sdk (Python) |
| REST | GrowthBook REST API | Doppler REST API |
| MCP | — | Doppler MCP |
| OTHER | Webhooks | Doppler Dashboard, Doppler Webhooks, GitHub Actions OIDC |
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