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.
9 of the 60 sites closest to Clerk match.
- 01
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 - 02
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 - 03
Product Intelligence Platform for the AI Era | Mixpanel
Mixpanel is the product intelligence platform for the AI era, combining analytics, session replay, experiments, feature flags, and AI-powered insights.
Very close - 04
GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
Very close - 05
Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility
Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.
Very close - 06
Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents
Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.
Very close - 07
Bolt AI builder: Websites, apps & prototypes
Build and scale high-performing websites & apps using your words. Join millions and start building today.
Very close - 08
Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
Very close - 09
Work & Project Management for Human-Agent Teams • Asana
Work management software for teams and AI agents. Plan, automate, and execute critical workflows together.
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 58 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