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Clerk Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026

Pro at $100/mo is the most popular choice, sitting between the free Hobby tier and the $300/mo Business plan.

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Clerk plans and pricing

High· Verified July 8, 2026

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Pick a plan, set your seat count and switch billing to see the running total. The full breakdown lives in the calculator below.

$85Pro · effective monthly, billed annually

Free

Hobby

Start building

Free

Unlimited applications

50,000 Monthly Retained Users per app

APIs + prebuilt UI for sign-up, sign-in, user profile

Custom domain

Core authentication features

100 Monthly Active Organizations per app

Up to 20 members per organization

1-day application log retention

Get started

Plan

Pro

Scale with full-featured auth

$85/mo

$100 /mosave 15%

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)

Satellite domains ($10/mo each)

Custom session lifetime

7-day application log retention

SMS authentication

Machine Authentication (API Keys & M2M Tokens)

Choose Pro

Plan

Business

Compliance and growing teams

$250/mo

$300 /mosave 17%

Everything in Pro

10 dashboard seats (additional $20/mo each)

SOC2 Report

Enhanced dashboard roles

Priority support

30-day application log retention

Choose Business

Custom

Enterprise

Tailored solutions at scale

Custom

Everything in Business

Annual committed use discounts

99.99% Uptime SLA

Enterprise SSO for workspace

Premium support SLA + dedicated Slack channel

Custom log retention

HIPAA compliance with BAA

Onboarding & migration support

Contact sales

Clerk pricing: the quick answer

Quick answerHigh· Verified July 8, 2026

Clerk starts free. 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 on top: extra Enterprise SSO connections, satellite domains, and additional dashboard seats are each billed separately. Clerk charges per end user, not per developer seat, so a large B2C base is where the meter runs.

HobbyFree
Pro$100/mo
Business$300/mo
EnterpriseCustom

Run your numbers in the cost calculator: pick a plan, add your expected usage, and see the full monthly bill.

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 9 identity & access management tools we track.

Clerk cost calculator

Clerk Hidden Costs & Pitfalls

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.

$0.02/MRU/mo above 50,000

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.

$75/mo per extra SSO connection

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.

$10/domain, $20/seat, SMS per message

Clerk Cost Analysis

Clerk pricing, read against its live plans and category

Checked against current plan data

Positioning

$100/moentry price

1900% above the category median

low $2median $5 · n=9high $249

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 $5/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.

Cost drivers

1Overage charges of $0.02/mo per extra MRU on the Pro plan once the 50,000 limit is exceeded.
2Enterprise SSO connections cost $75/mo for each additional connection after the first included one.
3Satellite domains require an extra $10/mo each.
4Additional dashboard seats cost $20/mo each on the Business plan after the first 10 included seats.

Watch-outs

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.

Strengths

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

What users say

“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." - Reddit

Editor’s take

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.

Oleh KemFounder & Lead Analyst

ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 8, 2026

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