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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 June 28, 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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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
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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: June 28, 2026
What Clerk really costs
Beyond the subscription: what to budget for
List price covers the subscription. Total cost of ownership for Clerk typically includes additional line items that don't appear on the pricing page.
Implementation
Setup, data migration, initial configuration
Training
Onboarding, certification, admin enablement
Premium Support
SLA upgrades, dedicated CSM, 24/7 access
Required Add-ons
Features gated behind higher tiers or paid extras
Integrations
Third-party connectors, API usage, custom builds
Annual True-Up
Seat overages, usage spikes, contract reconciliation
Clerk price history
Expert verified·Updated July 1, 2026
Price & Data Intelligence SyncLast verified: June 28, 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: 2026-06-28)
- 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