Clerk Features and Pricing

What Clerk Handles for You#

Take a second and look at how much work Clerk saves you.

Feature	Without Clerk	With Clerk
Password hashing	Build it yourself	Done
Login forms	Build it yourself	Done
Email verification	Build it yourself	Done
Password reset	Build it yourself	Done
Social login	Build each one yourself	One toggle
Two-factor auth	Build it yourself	One toggle
Rate limiting	Build it yourself	Done
Session management	Build it yourself	Done

That's potentially WEEKS of work, handled with a few lines of code.

Clerk's Dashboard#

Clerk gives you a dashboard where you can do all of this.

• See all your users
• View login activity
• Configure security settings
• Customize the look of login pages
• Turn features on or off

None of it needs code. You just point and click in the dashboard.

Pricing#

Here's the part I always scroll to first. Clerk has a generous free tier. As of October 2026 it looks like this.

• Hobby (free). Up to 50,000 monthly retained users per app
• Pro. $25 per month, or $20 per month billed annually

For most projects, ESPECIALLY when you're just starting out, the free plan is plenty. One catch though. Some features, like two-factor auth and SMS codes, are free to try in development but need a paid plan once your app is live. Prices and limits change though, so check clerk.com/pricing for the current numbers before you lean on them.

TL;DR#

• Authentication is proving who a user is (login and signup)
• Building authentication yourself is risky and eats a lot of time
• Clerk handles passwords, verification, social login and more
• You add Clerk to your app with just a few lines of code
• Clerk gives you a dashboard to manage users and settings
• The free Hobby plan covers up to 50,000 monthly retained users per app (check clerk.com/pricing for the current limit)