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Categories/Digital Identity/Clerk
Clerk

Clerk

Founded by Colin Sidoti & Braden Sidoti in 2019

Add authentication and user management to web applications

Pricing model

Free Tier, Paid

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Clerk to add authentication, user accounts, and organization management to your web or mobile applications. It provides prebuilt user interface components like sign-in boxes, user profiles, and organization switchers that drop directly into frameworks like React and Next.js. You can support social logins, multi-factor authentication, one-time passcodes, and magic links without writing backend authentication logic from scratch. Clerk also handles session security, detects fraudulent sign-ups, manages user permissions, and provides recurring subscription billing components for your software projects.

What Clerk does

Configure social logins using third-party OAuth providersEmbed customizable sign-in and user profile componentsSet up role-based access control and organization permissionsRevoke compromised user sessions across active devicesBlock bot traffic and throwaway email addresses during registrationGate application features behind subscription plansDrop-in UI components for sign-in, user profiles, and organization switchingBuilt-in multi-factor authentication and one-time passcode verificationMulti-tenant organization management with custom roles and permissionsFraud prevention with disposable email detection and bot blockingSession management with active device monitoring and remote revocationSocial login integration covering more than twenty OAuth providersTurnkey subscription billing components without manual payment setup

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free tier, Paid

PlanList price
HobbyFree
Pro$25 / mo
Pro (annual billing)$20 / mo, billed annually
Business$300 / mo
Business (annual billing)$250 / mo, billed annually

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