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Clerk
clerk.com ↗Pricing combines fixed monthly plan fees with multiple metered dimensions (MRUs, MROs, enterprise connections, machine auth events, SMS), plus per-seat and per-domain charges and optional paid add-ons. For a multi-service auth platform, the number of independent meters and tiers, percentage processing fee, and annual-only/custom enterprise terms can make total cost variable based on usage and configuration.
model: gpt-5
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Pricing clarity
A bit fiddly
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Agent easiness
Breezy for bots
How we scored it 🧮
Every page starts at 100. Each kind of complexity subtracts points — here's the math.
🧾 Pricing clarity
65- Base score+100
- 4 plans to compare-4
- 2 add-ons / extras-4
- 19 metered dimensions to track-26
- Spans 6 distinct services to navigate-4
- Plan breadth is reasonable for a 6-service platform+3
- Total65 / 100
🤖 Agent easiness
100- Base score+100
- Total100 / 100
The pricing tree 🌳
tap any branch to explore💳 Hybrid💱 $🪜 4 tiers🧩 2 add-ons
The tiers 🪜
Hobby
Free
per month
- Dashboard seatsUp to 3
- MRUs50,000 limit per app
- User impersonationsUp to 5
- ✦Unlimited applications
- ✦APIs and prebuilt UIs for sign-up, sign-in, and user profile (+ most authentication features)
- ✦Custom domain
- ✦Fixed, 7 day session lifetime
- ✦Application Logs (1 day retention)
- ✦Machine Authentication: API Keys (1,000 creations & 100,000 verifications/mo limit) and M2M Tokens (2,500 creations & 100,000 verifications/mo limit)
Pro
$25
per month ($20/mo billed annually)
- Dashboard seatsUp to 3
- MRUs included50,000 per app, then $0.02/mo each (volume discounts available)
- Enterprise Connections included1 included, $75/mo each additional (volume discounts available)
- Satellite domains$10/mo each
- ✦Everything in Hobby
- ✦Remove Clerk branding
- ✦Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- ✦Satellite domains
- ✦Custom session lifetime
- ✦Application Logs (7 day retention)
- ✦SMS Authentication available (US/Canada $0.01/SMS, international: market rate)
Business
$300
per month ($250/mo billed annually)
- Dashboard seats10 included
- Additional seats$20/mo each
- MRUs included50,000 per app (then volume pricing)
- ✦Everything in Pro
- ✦SOC2 Report
- ✦Enhanced dashboard roles
- ✦Priority support
- ✦Application Logs (30 day retention)
Enterprise
Custom
annual billing only
- ✦Everything in Business
- ✦Annual committed use discounts
- ✦99.99% Uptime SLA
- ✦Enterprise SSO for workspace
- ✦Premium support SLA + dedicated Slack channel
- ✦Application Logs (custom retention)
- ✦HIPAA compliance available with BAA
Add-ons & extras 🧩
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B2B Authentication (Enhanced) · $100/mo ($85/mo billed annually)
Enhanced add-on with 100 MROs included per app (as low as $1 per additional, volume discounts available), unlimited members per Organization, link Enterprise Connections with Organizations, Verified Domains & Automatic Invitations, Custom Roles & Rolesets.
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Administration (Enhanced) · $100/mo ($85/mo billed annually)
Enhanced add-on providing unlimited impersonations.
Watch out for 🕵️
- ⚠️Tiered MRU metering beyond 50,000 per app with multiple price bands
- ⚠️Tiered MRO metering for B2B add-on beyond 100 per app with multiple price bands
- ⚠️Per-connection metered Enterprise Connections beyond 1 included, with multi-tier pricing
- ⚠️Machine authentication metering across four dimensions (API key creations/verifications, M2M token creations/verifications) with overage rates
- ⚠️Per-SMS usage charges with market-rate international pricing noted
- ⚠️Per-seat charges on Business plan for additional dashboard seats
- ⚠️Per-domain monthly charges for satellite domains
- ⚠️Billing processing fee as percentage of billing volume
- ⚠️Paid add-ons (B2B Authentication Enhanced, Administration Enhanced) that expand billable usage and capabilities
- ⚠️Annual billing discounts on Pro, Business, and add-ons
- ⚠️Enterprise plan is custom priced with annual-only billing and committed-use discounts