Clerk

An authentication and user management platform

5.0•90 reviews•

1.1K followers

An authentication and user management platform

5.0•90 reviews•

1.1K 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.

Clerk Reviews

The community submitted 90 reviews to tell us what they like about Clerk, what Clerk can do better, and more.

5.0

Based on 90 reviews

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Reviewers describe Clerk as an auth tool that is notably easy to integrate, with strong documentation, polished default UI, and enough built-in user, session, and organization features to keep teams from building auth themselves. Users consistently praise its simplicity and generous free tier. Makers of products like Bucket, GraphBit, and Gro say it helped them ship secure login flows quickly and stay focused on core product work. No clear drawbacks appear in the reviews provided.

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Pros

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

•19 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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22 views1yr ago

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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19 views1yr ago

used Clerk to build SnippSync

•3 reviews

Clerk made authentication a breeze. The built-in UI, support for social logins, and seamless Clerk + Next.js integration saved us weeks of dev time. We evaluated Auth0 and Firebase Auth, but Clerk's modern DX and amazing docs clearly stood out. Highly recommend for any modern SaaS.

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8 views10mo ago

•6 reviews

Stop googling for a solution and just use this. This is likely exactly what you need. Clerk helps you avoid the hassle of having to deal with authentication both on the BE and the FE. It is not worth opting for another free/open-source solution as the free tier on Clerk is quite generous and will help you get started.

What's great

free tier (5)comprehensive solution (5)

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1 view1yr ago

Gradienty

•8 reviews

An excellent and much needed solution for User Auth in the JS framework space. If anything - this is belongs in your stack if you're someone like me who likes to ship fast and doesn't want to get bogged down in configuring User Authentication, Webhooks, API keys and tokens for all the different providers you might require in your Auth flow.

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3yr ago

used Clerk to build reconfigured

•4 reviews

From all the auth providers I've tried Clerk is simply the best. No one should roll up their own authentication solution, maintaining one is pain. Having system that just works makes things so much easier. In addition the ready made components are super nice.

What's great

prebuilt UI components (4)

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1yr ago

used Clerk to build EmailTemple

•5 reviews

Auth that took an afternoon to wire up instead of a sprint. EmailTemple's free tier means thousands of signups need to just work — Clerk handles the whole sign-up / sign-in / webhook flow, and the server-side auth() API plays clean with Next.js App Router. Worth it for the time alone.

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8d ago

used Clerk to build Mascotly

•9 reviews

Shoutout to @Clerk for making authentication and user management an absolute breeze for Mascotly! 🚀 Their beautifully designed components and seamless API integration saved tons of time - highly recommend Clerk if you want auth that just works out of the box (and looks great too)! 🙌

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9mo ago

used Clerk to build Comigo

•18 reviews

Clerk.com delivers frictionless user authentication and management right out of the box, letting you skip the usual complexity and focus on building great products. Has great standar pages like user profile, settings, etc.

What's great

comprehensive solution (5)prebuilt UI components (4)

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1yr ago

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