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Clerk Pricing: Plans & Features 2026
Pro at $100/mo is the most popular choice, sitting between the free Hobby tier and the $300/mo Business plan.
Clerk plans and pricing
High· Verified July 2, 2026
Hobby
FreeBest for: Start building
- ✓Unlimited applications
- ✓50,000 Monthly Retained Users per app
- ✓APIs + prebuilt UI for sign-up, sign-in, user profile
- ✓Custom domain
- ✓Core authentication features
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MOST POPULARPro
$100/momonthlyor$1020/yrsave 15%
Best for: Scale with full-featured auth
- ✓Everything in Hobby
- ✓50,000 MRU included + $0.02/mo per extra MRU
- ✓1 Enterprise SSO connection included ($75/mo each additional)
- ✓Remove Clerk branding
- ✓Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
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Business
$300/momonthlyor$3000/yrsave 17%
Best for: Compliance and growing teams
- ✓Everything in Pro
- ✓10 dashboard seats (additional $20/mo each)
- ✓SOC2 Report
- ✓Enhanced dashboard roles
- ✓Priority support
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Enterprise
Contact SalesBest for: Tailored solutions at scale
- ✓Everything in Business
- ✓Annual committed use discounts
- ✓99.99% Uptime SLA
- ✓Enterprise SSO for workspace
- ✓Premium support SLA + dedicated Slack channel
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Clerk pricing: the quick answer
Clerk starts free. As of July 2026 the Hobby plan is free with 50,000 Monthly Retained Users per app, Pro is $100 a month ($85 annually), and Business is $300 ($250 annually), with Enterprise quote-only. Pro also includes 50,000 MRU, and past that you pay $0.02 per extra retained user. Add-ons stack: each extra Enterprise SSO connection is $75 a month, satellite domains $10, extra dashboard seats $20. Clerk charges per end user, not per developer seat, so a large B2C base is where the meter runs.
Use the interactive Clerk pricing calculator to estimate your exact monthly cost at your team size, with annual-billing savings and the hidden costs counted in.
Free tier
Yes
Billing model
Usage-Based
Cheapest paid
$100/mo
Annual discount
Save ~17%
At $100/mo to start, Clerk sits 1900% above the $5/mo median across 7 identity & access management tools we track.
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What Clerk really costs
What sits on top of the plan fee
The plan fee is only the base. Clerk's real cost is the metered layer on top: retained-user overage plus a stack of per-unit add-ons that each carry their own price.
Retained-user overage above the included 50,000
Both Hobby and Pro include 50,000 Monthly Retained Users. On Pro, user 50,001 costs $0.02 a month and it scales from there, so an app that grows to 120,000 retained users pays the $100 base plus about $1,400 in overage, roughly $1,500 a month. The rate does drop at higher volume bands, down to $0.018, $0.015, and $0.012, but a fast-growing B2C app should model the overage, not the sticker.
Enterprise SSO connections priced per connection
Pro includes one Enterprise SSO connection, and every additional one is $75 a month. A B2B app onboarding ten enterprise customers who each want their own SAML connection adds $675 a month on top of the plan. The rate falls at volume, to $60, then $30, then $15 per connection, but for a B2B product signing enterprise logos, SSO is a recurring line, not a one-time setup.
The small per-unit add-ons that accumulate
Satellite domains are $10 a month each on Pro and up, extra dashboard seats on Business are $20 a month each beyond the included 10, and SMS authentication is billed per message rather than bundled. None is large alone, but a team running three satellite domains, five extra seats, and SMS on every login finds a few hundred dollars a month sitting above the plan fee. Tally the add-ons you actually use before treating $100 or $300 as your bill.
Pricing Expert Take
Independent analysis · Clerk
Verified Pricing Data
Value Analysis
$100/mo1900% above median
Category median: $5/moBased on 7 products in this category
Clerk enters the market at $100/mo for its Pro plan and $300/mo for its Business plan, which is significantly higher than the category median of $9/mo. While the Hobby plan is exceptionally generous with 50,000 Monthly Retained Users (MRUs) and 100 Monthly Active Organizations, the paid tiers scale aggressively. For B2B applications requiring multi-tenancy, the ease of implementation justifies the premium, but B2C apps with high user volume will find the scaling costs difficult to absorb.
Hidden Costs
- Overage charges of $0.02/mo per extra MRU on the Pro plan once the 50,000 limit is exceeded.
- Enterprise SSO connections cost $75/mo for each additional connection after the first included one.
- Satellite domains require an extra $10/mo each.
- Additional dashboard seats cost $20/mo each on the Business plan after the first 10 included seats.
Red Flags
Users express deep concern over vendor lock-in and the steep scaling curve of Clerk's B2B pricing model. There are also reported reliability issues, where ongoing downtime and bugs undermine the premium price tag.
"It's like the super vendor lock. Is clerk really that costly..."
"We initially considered clerk, but the B2B pricing is steep high."
"Clerk has been extremely unreliable for authentication. It's easy to setup, but will cause you hours of ongoing pain..."
Based on analysis of recent Reddit and G2 discussions.
Green Wins
The Pro plan at $100/mo offers stunning DX: auth UI in minutes with React components.
- Stunning DX: auth UI in minutes with React components
- Generous free tier (10k MAU)
- Built-in organization/multi-tenancy support
"Users consistently praise the product for its excellent customer support and ease of use,"
G2
"Clerk is great don't get me wrong, you can move fast with prebuilt UI,"
User review
"Clerk is a great email marketing tool that helps offer the right types of"
TrustRadius
User Voices
"Clerk is expensive but their B2B features are hard to match."
"I'm starting a new project and decided to go with Clerk because of the included Stripe payment integration."
Verdict
Early-stage startups and developers should leverage the Hobby plan for its generous free limits, while growing B2B SaaS companies with budget should opt for the $100/mo Pro plan to unlock MFA and basic SSO. If you want to avoid steep B2B scaling costs and vendor lock-in, consider Microsoft Entra ID starting at $9/mo as a more enterprise-standard alternative.
ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 2, 2026
Clerk price history
Expert verified·Updated July 2, 2026
Price & Data Intelligence SyncLast verified: July 2, 2026 · CE-IAM-2026W26-8C97C2 · ✓ Pricing updated Jun 28, 2026
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Sources & Data Trail · Clerk
- 1.Official Pricing Page·Source of verified tiers(Checked: 2026-07-02)
- 2.Official Website·Official vendor website
- 3.G2·G2 verified user reviews · 4.8/5 · 126 reviews
- 4.Capterra·Capterra verified user reviews · 4.7/5
- 5.TrustRadius·TrustRadius verified reviews