Clerk
Drop-in React authentication and user management for modern web apps
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 1 independent review sources
- 4 third-party reviews counted
- 1 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 1
- 3 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Clerk ranks #3
Clerk ranks #3 of 12 auth & identity with a TOP SCORE of 53.
The category leader scores 56, a gap of 3 points.
That is 5 points above the category average of 47.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 70; its weakest is Web Authority at 14.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
49 → 53 ↑3.3
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 2.9/5 | 58 | 4 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 57% | 57% | 14% | 2.0 | 7 | 1 Sept 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- Costbench31 Aug 2026
- CompareEdge31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Clerk sells drop-in authentication and user management delivered as prebuilt React components (<SignIn/>, <UserButton/>, <UserProfile/>) plus a framework-detecting `clerk init` CLI, with session lifecycle handling, organizations/multi-tenancy, RBAC, enterprise SSO and subscription-billing components. It is purpose-built for JavaScript-first stacks — React, Next.js, Remix, React Router, TanStack Start, Astro and Expo — and targets B2B SaaS and paid B2C teams that want production auth without building identity infrastructure. The company announced a $50m Series C and remains private.
- Category
- Auth & Identity
- Products
- Clerk Authentication (prebuilt React components), clerk init CLI, Session management with device monitoring and revocation, Organizations / multi-tenancy, RBAC, Enterprise SSO, Clerk Billing (subscription components)
- Markets
- SMB, Mid-Market, B2B SaaS, Startups
- Integrations
- Next.js, React, React Router, TanStack Start, Astro, Expo, Supabase, Convex, Vercel Marketplace, MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet
- Pricing
- From $25/mo (Pro) — vendor-domain explainer, not verified on the billing page · free tier: Free "Hobby" plan covering 50,000 monthly retained users; all features free in development mode pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- Nothing verified. Clerk publishes /security, /legal/standard-terms and /legal/privacy pages but none were retrieved this session. G2's "HIPAA Compliant" and "PCI Compliance" labels are taxonomy checkboxes, not audited attestations. SOC 2 status is not verified and should not be published.
- Official website
- https://clerk.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform53
- Category leader56
- Category average47
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