Clerk

An authentication and user management platform

5.0•108 reviews•

1.4K followers

An authentication and user management platform

5.0•108 reviews•

1.4K followers

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Authentication & identity tools

A complete suite of embeddable UIs, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards to authenticate and manage your users.

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Clerk Launches

ClerkMore than authentication, complete user management

Launched on October 20th, 2022

Session Management by ClerkSession management, done right

Launched on November 5th, 2021

ClerkAuthentication and user management for React and Next.js

Launched on April 22nd, 2021

5.0

Based on 108 reviews

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Reviewers describe Clerk as a fast, low-friction way to add authentication and user management, with especially strong praise for easy setup, clear docs, and polished prebuilt components. Users say it integrates smoothly, particularly in React and Next.js, and helps teams avoid building auth across both frontend and backend. Founders of products like VC Boom and Bucket add that social login, sessions, organizations, and scaling were handled quickly out of the box. Criticism is essentially absent in the provided reviews.

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easy integration (8)

comprehensive solution (5)

free tier (5)

fast setup (4)

prebuilt UI components (4)

flexible auth (3)

beautiful components (2)

developer APIs (2)

OAuth support (2)

secure login flows (2)

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used Clerk to build Bucket DX instead of WorkOS

•20 reviews

What's great

fast setup (4)beautiful components (2)

We use Clerk for auth. Beautiful out-of-the-box, quickly set up, and scalable — a no-brainer.

vs Alternatives

WorkOS

When we started building the auth feature at @Bucket — the first interaction you have with a product — we wanted to make it a great first-time experience. Above all, we wanted a seamless, secure, and beautifully crafted login experience. We also needed a solution that is easy to maintain and scales with our needs.

We considered @WorkOS as an option, a mature and feature-rich auth provider. However, we didn't feel 100% confident about their pricing structure and their per-connection SAML costs in particular.

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used Clerk to build AgentQL

•9 reviews

We initially began building user management in-house but quickly realized that creating a secure and seamless user experience involved more complexity than anticipated. It was clear that continuing down this path would pull valuable engineering resources away from our core product. Clerk provided a comprehensive solution, covering everything from account life cycle to payment integration. This shift allowed us to focus on our primary goals while still ensuring a great user experience.

What's great

comprehensive solution (5)

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used Clerk to build Pull Sense

•15 reviews

Clerk makes authentication effortless, with a developer-friendly API and prebuilt UI components that save time. Unlike Auth0 or Firebase Auth, Clerk provides first-class support for modern frameworks like Next.js and integrates seamlessly with Supabase and Vercel. The built-in user management, multi-factor auth, and social logins simplify everything, while its flexible session management ensures security without complexity. For PullSense, it made user authentication seamless without the usual headaches.

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