Clerk pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Hobby: $0 month
- Pro: $25 month ($20/mo billed annually)
- Business: $300 month ($250/mo billed annually)
- Enterprise: Custom (custom, billed annually)
- Worth noting: Billed on Monthly Retained Users (MRU). MRU volume discounts down to $0.012/mo. No traditional trial; Pro features testable in development instances. Startup discounts via partners. Directory Sync billing starts Jan 1, 2027.
Plans
Hobby
$0 month
- Up to 3 dashboard seats
- Unlimited applications
- 50,000 MRU limit per app
- Up to 5 user impersonations
- Prebuilt UIs for sign-up, sign-in, user profile
- Custom domain
- Fixed 7 day session lifetime
- Application Logs 1 day retention
- Brute force prevention and basic protections
Pro
$25 month ($20/mo billed annually)
- 50,000 MRU included per app, additional $0.02/mo each
- 1 SSO connection included, additional $75/mo each
- 1 Directory Sync connection included
- Remove Clerk branding
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Satellite domains $10/mo each
- Custom session lifetime
- Application Logs 7 day retention
- SMS Authentication available
Business
$300 month ($250/mo billed annually)
- Everything in Pro
- 10 dashboard seats included, additional $20/mo each
- SOC2 Report
- Enhanced dashboard roles
- Enterprise SSO for workspace
- Priority support
- Application and Admin Logs 30 day retention
- Advanced protections
Enterprise
Custom custom, billed annually
- Everything in Business
- Annual committed use discounts
- 99.99% Uptime SLA
- Dedicated technical account manager
- Dedicated Slack channel
- Custom log retention and log sinks
- HIPAA compliance available with BAA
- White-glove onboarding & migration support
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Hobby | Pro | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Included MRUs | 50,000 per app | 50,000 per app, then $0.02/mo each | 50,000 per app, then $0.02/mo each | Custom |
| Dashboard seats | Up to 3 | Up to 3 | 10 included, additional $20/mo each | Custom |
| Remove Clerk branding | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Social connections | Up to 3 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| SMS codes | — | Per SMS fees apply | Per SMS fees apply | Per SMS fees apply |
| Passkeys | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MFA | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO connections | — | 1 included per app, $75/mo each additional | 1 included per app, $75/mo each additional | Custom |
| Directory Sync connections | — | 1 included per app | 1 included per app | Custom |
| Secret Key IP restrictions | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced protections | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom session duration | Fixed to 7 days | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Satellite domains | — | $10/mo each | $10/mo each | Custom |
| Application Logs | 1 day retention | 7 day retention | 30 day retention | Custom retention |
| Admin Logs | — | — | 30 day retention | Custom retention |
| Email support | ✓ | Billing, registration, and abuse queries only | Priority | Premium support options |
| SOC2 report | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| HIPAA compliance | — | — | — | Available with BAA |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| B2B Authentication Enhanced | $100/mo or $85/mo billed annually; additional MROs $1/mo each | All plans |
| Administration Enhanced | $100/mo or $85/mo billed annually | All plans |
| Protect protection checks | 10,000 free per month, then $0.002 per check | All plans |
| Billing | 0.7% of billing volume | All plans |
| Additional SSO connection | $75/mo each (2-15) | Pro, Business |
| Satellite domains | $10/mo each | Pro, Business |
Clerk pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clerk | Free; paid from $25 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| WorkOS | Contact sales | Yes | Usage-based | SaaS and AI companies that need to add enterprise features like SSO and SCIM to sell to large organizations. | Compare → |
| Microsoft Entra ID | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Okta | $6 per seat / mo | No · 30-day trial | Per seat | Organizations that need to secure workforce, customer, partner and AI agent identities from one cloud identity platform. | Compare → |
| Auth0 | Free; paid from $35 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Development teams adding login, SSO and authorization to B2C apps, B2B SaaS and AI agents | Compare → |
List prices as published on clerk.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.