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Clerk | Authentication and User Management

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Jan 31, 2024 8:02 PM
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AI-powered ToolsAuthenticationUser Management
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Clerk is a comprehensive suite of embeddable UIs, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards for authentication and user management. It offers pixel-perfect UIs that can be easily embedded, supports multifactor authentication, advanced security measures, session management, social sign-on, bot detection, and more. Clerk also provides SDKs for modern frameworks and integrations with popular tools. It is trusted by startups and large companies alike and offers custom roles and permissions for multi-tenant SaaS applications. Start building with Clerk for free.

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Clerk

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https://clerk.com/?utm_source=topstartups.io
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Need more than just a sign-in box? Clerk is a complete suite of embeddable UIs, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards to authenticate and manage your users.

Start building for free

Trusted by fast-growing companies around the world

Clerk Components

Pixel-perfect UIs, embedded in minutes

Simply add <SignIn/>, <SignUp/>, <UserButton/>, <UserProfile/> for complete user management functionality. Match to your brand with any CSS library, then deploy to your own domain — no more jarring redirects!

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Everything you need for authentication

Ever feel like authentication requirements change with the season? Clerk keeps up with the latest trends and security best practices.

Multifactor Authentication

Each user's self-serve multifactor settings are enforced automatically during sign-in.

Advanced security

Clerk is SOC 2 type 2 certified and CCPA compliant. We conduct regular third-party audits and penetration tests.

Session Management

Clerk manages the full session lifecycle, including critical security functionality like active device monitoring and session revocation.

Device

Browser

Location

Sign out device

Social Sign-On

Add high-conversion Social Sign-on (SSO) to your application in minutes. 20+ options and growing.

Bot Detection

Dramatically reduce fraudulent sign-ups with built-in, continually updated machine learning.

Email and SMS one-time passcodes

Fast and reliable one-time passcode delivery with built-in brute force prevention.

Phone

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SMS

Books

TV

Google

X

Clerk

Passwords

Simple and secure password authentication, complete with breach detection and recovery options.

Magic Links

Improve sign-up conversion rates and filter out spam/fraud with Magic Links.

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Joseph Cole

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Webhooks

Gain full control of your application by leveraging Clerk's 20+ webhook events.

session.created

Frameworks

Seamless SDKs for modern frameworks

Clerk keeps developer experience front-and-center by providing helpful SDKs for most modern frameworks on web and mobile.

All frameworks

Next.jsRemixReactExpoRails

Integrations

Integrations with the tools you love

Leverage Clerk as the source of truth for your user data and seamlessly integrate with the tools that you already depend on.

All integrations

ConvexFirebase

B2B SaaS Suite

The easy solution to multi-tenancy

Clerk has all the features you need to onboard and manage the users and organizations of your multi-tenant SaaS application.

Custom roles and permissions

Powerful primitives to fully customize your app's authorization story.

Product Member

Administrator

Editor

QA Tester

Owner

Engineer

Marketing

Human Resources

Auto-join

Let your users discover and join organizations based on their email domain.

Auto-join

Invitations

Fuel your application's growth by making it simple for your customers to invite their team.

Invite this person

Organization UI Components

Clerk's UI components add turn-key simplicity to complex Organization management tasks.

Clerk

What people are saying

Trusted by startups and the world's largest companies

Join the growing number of customers and champions who trust Clerk for authentication and user management.

  • The best practices built-in to their <SignIn/> and <UserProfile/> components would take months to implement in-house, yet no sacrifice is made in terms of Enterprise extensibility or customization to your brand.NameGuillermo RauchRoleCEOCompanyVercel
  • Clerk feels like the first time I booted my computer with an SSD. It’s so much faster and simpler that it changed how I do things.NameTheo BrowneRoleCEOCompanyPing Labs
  • After spending many hours on auth issues that seemed simple (but were not), we moved to Clerk and all that burden was lifted. We kind of wish we’d made that decision earlier.NameJulian BenegasRoleCEOCompanyBaseHub
  • Clerk let us spin up a new product in hours instead of weeks. As a company that deeply values developer velocity— Clerk is exactly what we needed.NameKevin Van GundyRoleCEOCompanyHypermode
  • We’re big admirers of what the @ClerkDev team are building and looking forward to working more closely with them.NamePatrick CollisonRoleCEOCompanyStripe
  • Clerk’s integration gives Supabase developers another incredible option for handling authentication. And the Clerk team are a pleasure to work with.NamePaul CopplestoneRoleCEOCompanySupabase
  • We were able to ship MFA, SSO, and SAML for our customers in a fraction of the time. Now, we have improved security and must-haves for enterprise prospects.NameDan FarrellyRoleCTOCompanyInngest

Start now, no strings attached

Integrate complete user management in minutes. Free for your first 10,000 monthly active users and 100 monthly active orgs. No credit card required.

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