Clerk pricing
Market leader. Maturity: Established (12 months or more). Replaces Auth0. Last checked 2026-10-20.
Visitors who say they use Clerk: none yet. Self-reported, anonymous, and never used for order.
| plan | from $/mo | billed | source | checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $0 | per monthly retained user | pricing page | 2026-10-20 |
| Pro | $25 | per monthly retained user | pricing page | 2026-10-20 |
| Business | $300 | per monthly retained user | pricing page | 2026-10-20 |
Hobby: Free. A "monthly retained user" (MRU) is a user who returns 24 or more hours after signing up, so it counts fewer people than a monthly active user.
Pro: 50,000 MRUs included, then $0.02 each up to 100,000, $0.018 up to 1 million. The 100,000 price is $25 + 50,000 x $0.02. Annual price for the overage is not stated, so only the base is shown for annual billing.
Business: Same 50,000 included and same per-user rates as Pro (the page lists them once for both plans). Adds SOC 2 report, 30-day logs, 10 dashboard seats.
features recorded
| feature | status | from plan | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social login | yes | Hobby | Up to 3 social providers on Hobby; unlimited on Pro. |
| Passwordless sign-in | yes | Hobby | Email codes and email links. |
| Multi-factor authentication | yes | Pro | |
| Custom domain | yes | Hobby | |
| Passkeys | yes | Pro | |
| Remove vendor branding | yes | Pro | "Secured by Clerk" branding can be removed from Pro. |
| User data export | yes | Hobby | Full data exports included on every plan. |
| Organizations (teams) | yes | Hobby | 100 monthly retained organizations free, up to 20 members each; unlimited members is a $100 a month add-on. |
| Roles and permissions | yes | Hobby | Admin and Member roles with custom permissions. Custom roles are in the paid B2B add-on. |
| Enterprise single sign-on (SAML) | yes | Pro | 1 connection included, then $75 a month each. |
| Automatic user provisioning (SCIM) | yes | Pro | 1 directory sync connection included; extra ones are billed from 1 January 2027 at $75 a month each. |
| Audit logs | yes | Business | Admin logs with 30-day retention are Business only; application logs are on every plan (1 day on Hobby, 7 on Pro). |
| Machine-to-machine tokens | yes | Hobby | Limits apply: 2,500 token creations a month on Hobby, then metered. |
| Uptime guarantee (SLA) | no | - | 99.99% uptime SLA is Enterprise only. |
compare
- +Cheaper alternatives to Clerk: what each costs at every size, and what you would lose.
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- +All authentication tools, including Auth0, Firebase Authentication, Kinde, Skapi, Supabase Auth.
switches
Reported switches to Clerk from other listed tools: none yet. Self-reported by visitors, shown as a raw count, and never used for ranking.
What people said they gave up (read first, one person's view each):
proof signals
- +SOC 2 report on Business plan (vendor statement)
- +Startup programme with Y Combinator, Stripe Atlas and others (vendor statement)
details
- website
- clerk.com
- hosting
- managed
- open source
- no
- leaving
- Full data exports of Clerk user data are included on every plan (vendor statement).