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Freemium · $25/mo + usage

Clerk

User management for modern apps.

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What is Clerk?
Clerk is a hosted authentication and user management service that ships as drop-in UI components for web and mobile apps.
What does it do?
Handles sign-up, sign-in, sessions, multi-factor auth and social logins through prebuilt React, Next.js and mobile components. Adds a user profile UI, organizations with roles and invitations, plus backend SDKs and an admin dashboard.
Who is it for?
Frontend-heavy teams building React or Next.js products who want working auth quickly, including B2B apps that need multi-tenant organizations and member invites.
What are the alternatives to Clerk?
Auth0 is the enterprise identity incumbent. Better Auth is a library you wire into your own backend, and Logto and SuperTokens are open source with hosted plans available.

Pricing

$25/mo + usage

Free up to 10,000 MAUs

Freemium

About

Founded 2019

San Francisco, USA

Founders

The people behind Clerk.

Colin SidotiCo-founder & CEO
Braden SidotiCo-founder
Brian KlepnerCo-founder

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