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Clerk
Drop-in auth with pre-built UI
Free plan availableSecurity & PrivacySince 2020
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What Clerk is
Authentication and user management with ready-made components, organisations, MFA and session handling for modern frameworks.
Clerk's Pro plan has read $25 a month on every one of the 8 times we have checked this page, from Jul 2024 to Sept 2026, counting archived copies of it. It has not moved while we have been looking. See the earliest reading
Price held · 2 years
Clerk Pro has cost $25/mo since July 2024.
8 readings of its own pricing page agree, starting from the July 2024 capture. How the award works
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Current offers
Free plan
Free plan, no card required
Ongoing free tier published by the vendor. Limits vary by plan.
Discount
20% off — $20/mo instead of $25/mo
Both prices read from clerk.com on 2026-09-21. Pro plan. Billed for 12 months up front.
Clerk alternatives
Other tools in security & privacy that cover similar ground. Full comparison.
Where Clerk sits on price
Entry prices across Security & Privacy, cheapest first.
- WorkOSFree
- Bitwarden$1.65
- Keeper Security$2
- 1Password$2.99*
- Proton Pass$2.99
- Dashlane$4.99*
- Tailscale$8
- NordLayer$8
- Cloudflare$25
- Clerk$25
11 of these 13 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page; the rest are marked * and are indicative. The median is taken across the 10 verified prices in Security & Privacy. 4 more tools in this category do not publish an entry price and are not plotted. Showing the 10 cheapest.
Clerk pricing questions
- How much does Clerk cost?
- Clerk starts at $25 a month on its Pro plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from clerk.com's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does Clerk have a free plan?
- Yes. Clerk publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.
- Is Clerk cheaper if you pay annually?
- Yes — 20% cheaper. Paying for twelve months up front takes the entry plan from $25 a month to $20 a month. Both figures were read from the same pricing page in one visit, so the saving is arithmetic rather than a claim.
- What is Clerk used for?
- Authentication and user management with ready-made components, organisations, MFA and session handling for modern frameworks. People mainly use it to add authentication, manage users, add sso.
- What are the best alternatives to Clerk?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are Cloudflare, 1Password, Bitwarden, Tailscale. 1Password starts lower at $2.99 a month; Bitwarden starts lower at $1.65 a month; Tailscale starts lower at $8 a month. Cloudflare, Bitwarden and Tailscale publish a free plan.