Clerk

Pricing

• Hobby - free: 50,000 monthly retained users per app, up to 3 dashboard seats, unlimited applications
• Pro - $25/mo, or $20/mo billed annually: 50,000 MRUs included per app, then from $0.02 per MRU; MFA, passkeys, 1 SSO connection included
• Business - $300/mo, or $250/mo billed annually: 10 dashboard seats, SOC2 report, priority support
• Enterprise - custom, billed annually: 99.99% uptime SLA, HIPAA with BAA
• Add-ons - enhanced B2B Authentication or Administration $100/mo ($85/mo billed annually); Billing 0.7% of billing volume plus Stripe fees

Install

npx -y clerk@latest init

npm install @clerk/nextjs

Models

Not a model host. Clerk's MCP server lets coding agents create applications, configure authentication and manage users through your Clerk account, and the Clerk CLI's init command sets up Next.js and other frameworks non-interactively when it detects an agent.

Recent changes

• Oct 15Clerk's MCP server now connects to your Clerk account, so agents can create applications, configure authentication, manage users and set up production instances within the permissions you approve.
• Oct 6SAML enterprise connections can trust up to five signing certificates at once, so IdP key rotation no longer breaks sign-ins.
• Sep 30Self-serve Directory Sync moves SCIM and Google Workspace provisioning setup into the Security tab of OrganizationProfile for customer IT admins.

Sources: Clerk pricing, Next.js quickstart, Clerk changelog

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