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Embeddable UI components, APIs, and admin dashboards to handle sign-in, MFA, social login, and organizations. Free for up to 50,000 monthly retained users per app.

clerk.com

Clerk

Drop-in auth and user management for React and Next.js

Category
Auth & Security
Pricing
Freemium
Site
clerk.com
Tags
authentication, user-management, nextjs

What it does

Clerk handles sign-up, sign-in and user management for web apps, with prebuilt UI components, an API and organizations for B2B apps.

Who it suits

React and Next.js apps that want working auth quickly. Billing counts retained users, so sign-ups who never come back cost nothing.

Price

Hobby: free up to 50,000 monthly retained users per app. Pro: $25 a month ($20 billed yearly), then $0.02 per retained user from 50,001 to 100,000, with lower rates above. Business: $300 a month. A user is retained when they come back 24 hours or more after signing up.

Read on clerk.com on 27 October 2026. Prices change: the official page is the reference.

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