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Clerk

The easiest way to add authentication and user management to your app.

From $0/mo

About Clerk

Clerk removes the pain of building auth from scratch by providing beautiful, pre-built components that work out of the box. It supports multi-factor authentication, social logins, and organization management for B2B apps. Unlike older auth providers, Clerk manages the entire user session on the frontend and backend, providing a seamless developer experience with hooks like useUser(). It is highly optimized for performance and security, making it the top choice for new web projects.

Key Features

Pre-built UI components
Social login (Google, GitHub, etc.)
Multi-factor authentication
Organization management
User profile management
Webhooks
JWT templates

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • • Best developer experience in auth
  • • Beautiful, ready-to-use UI
  • • Very generous free tier

Cons

  • • Can be hard to customize deeply
  • • Heavily tied to React ecosystem
  • • Pricing scales with active users

Best For

Next.js developers SaaS builders Frontend engineers

Quick Info

Category
security
Pricing Model
Starting Price
Free

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