clerk.com
Clerk
Who runs Clerk, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest authentication software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Auth0
Measured from Clerk’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Clerk01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Clerk
Clerk clerk.com
The easiest way to add authentication and user management to your application. Purpose-built for React, Next.js, Remix, and “The Modern Web”.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Clerk tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 17 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Clerk’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Clerk
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Clerk, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Secure Authentication & Ship Faster | Auth0
Secure users, AI agents, and more with Auth0, a production-ready authentication and authorization platform built to help you ship faster and drive sign-ups.
Very close - 02
WorkOS — Your app, Enterprise Ready.
Developer APIs/SDKs for Enterprise Ready features like Single Sign-On, Directory Sync, Audit Logging, and more. Get started for free.
Very close - 03
Stytch - A better way to build auth
APIs and SDKs to integrate authentication and security into your app.
Very close - 04
Authentication & User Management Software - FusionAuth
FusionAuth provides complete auth software and user management solutions, with customizable tools like SSO, MFA, and integrations for OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
Very close - 05
Secure identity and access management platform | LoginRadius
LoginRadius: Privacy-compliant identity and access management platform. Offer Authentication and Authorization for your web and mobile apps in just a few clicks, with: SSO, MFA, social logins and more.
Very close - 06
Supabase | The Postgres Development Platform
Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings. Start for free.
Close - 07
WebOps Platform for Building High Impact Websites | Pantheon.io
Pantheon.io is the platform built for WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js. We deliver your business needs to build, host, and manage with digital speed and agility.
Very close - 08
Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel
The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
Very close - 09
Convex | All gas, no breakages
All gas, no breakages. Convex is the reactive backend platform that keeps up with you and your agents.
Very close - 10
Secure Identity for Employees, Customers, and AI | Okta
The Okta and Auth0 Platforms enable secure access, authentication, and automation — putting identity at the heart of business security and growth.
Very close - 11
OneLogin: Market-Leading Identity and Access Management Solutions
Secure your workforce, customers, and partner data with our modern IAM platform at a price that works with your budget.
Very close - 12
Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents
Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.
Very close - 13
GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Very close - 14
ClassLink | Identity & Access Management for Education
ClassLink is a provider of identity and access management products offering instant access to apps and files with SSO, class rostering, account provisioning, and analytics.
Very close - 15
Pendo | Product Context for Your Apps and AI Agents
Pendo feeds product context to the apps and AI agents you build or buy, so you can understand your users, act where it counts, and drive adoption and revenue.
Very close - 16
Clever
Very close - 17
Unleash the Power of AI for Your Business | Progress Software
Progress provides AI-powered software solutions to automate processes to develop, deploy and manage apps, and make critical data more accessible and secure.
Very close - 18
The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook
GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.
Very close - 19
RSA Security: Identity & Access Management Solutions
RSA Security provides identity intelligence, authentication, access, and governance for government, finance, and high-assurance organizations.
Very close - 20
JumpCloud: Unified Platform for Identity, Access, & Devices
JumpCloud makes it simple to manage Windows, Apple, Linux, and Android devices and to deliver secure access with SSO, MFA, Zero Trust, RADIUS, and more.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Clerk’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Clerk uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Clerk adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Clerk’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Hosting
- Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::bmfvr-1793957256463-914574d53b1d
- Authentication
- Clerk page source: /npm/@clerk/clerk-js
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=0Euha-dNJyVBz1uzPctmygqAzJVrrLrwH5fjF2gtzC8
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=eryo8iycag42tq5bblk5eqbeyr05er
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Apple Business · not on clerk.com 15/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on clerk.com 14/20
- Atlassian · not on clerk.com 13/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on clerk.com 13/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Cloudflare · not on clerk.com 11/20
- OpenAI · not on clerk.com 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on clerk.com 10/20
- DocuSign · not on clerk.com 10/20
- Adobe · not on clerk.com 8/20
- OneTrust · not on clerk.com 8/20
- Next.js 7/20
- React 7/20
- Stripe · not on clerk.com 7/20
- Miro · not on clerk.com 6/20