Pricing guide

Clerk pricing explained: retained users, overages, and B2B add-ons

Prices as published by Clerk, July 2026 — always verify current pricing with the vendor. Last updated July 2026.

Quick answer

How much does Clerk actually cost?

Short answer

Clerk is free up to 50,000 monthly retained users; Pro is $25/month with the same 50,000 included and $0.02 per additional retained user. B2B features (organizations, enterprise SSO connections) are separately priced add-ons. Figures reflect Clerk's published pricing as of July 2026 — verify with the vendor.

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What are Clerk's published prices?

Clerk prices on monthly retained users (MRUs) with feature add-ons layered on top. The table below summarizes the published structure as of July 2026; exact figures change, so treat these as budgeting anchors, not quotes.

Plan / add-on	Published price*	What to know
Hobby (free)	$0	Up to 50,000 monthly retained users (MRUs) per app.
Pro	$25/mo ($20 annual)	50,000 MRUs included; $0.02 per additional MRU, volume-discounted to $0.012 at 10M+.
Business	$300/mo ($250 annual)	Same MRU overage structure as Pro; adds business-tier features.
Enterprise	custom (annual only)	Quote-based.
B2B Authentication (add-on)	$100/mo ($85 annual)	100 monthly retained organizations included, then $1 per additional MRO.
Enterprise SSO connections	$75/mo each (2–15)	Published sliding scale down to $15/mo each at 500+ connections.
Administration (add-on)	$100/mo ($85 annual)	Unlimited user impersonations.
Billing (add-on)	0.7% of billing volume	On top of Stripe's own processing fees.

*As published by Clerk (July 2026) — verify with the vendor. Annual billing discounts apply to base plans and add-ons.

What does Clerk cost at realistic scale?

The 50,000-MRU free tier is one of the most generous entry points in CIAM — many seed-stage products never pay Clerk anything for core auth. On Pro, a consumer app retaining 200,000 users/month lands around $3,025/month at published rates ($25 base + 150,000 × $0.02) before volume discounts.

For B2B SaaS the bill shape is different: the $100/month organizations add-on plus per-connection enterprise SSO fees ($75/month each at low volume) means each enterprise customer you close carries its own identity line item — price that into your enterprise tier. At high connection counts, compare against WorkOS-style per-connection pricing and Clerk alternatives.

What are the pricing gotchas?

MRU is not MAU: retained-user counting usually bills lower than raw MAU, but the definition matters for spiky or seasonal apps — confirm how Clerk counts before extrapolating.
B2B is an add-on, not a tier: organizations/MRO billing ($100/mo published) plus per-connection enterprise SSO fees stack on top of Pro or Business.
Per-connection SSO fees scale with sales: every enterprise customer needing SAML/OIDC federation adds a published $75/month (at low volume) — great margin math for Clerk, so negotiate volume early.
Billing add-on takes a percentage: the 0.7%-of-volume billing feature is convenient but compounds with Stripe fees; high-volume products should compare a direct Stripe integration.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Clerk cost?

Clerk's published Hobby (free) plan includes up to 50,000 monthly retained users (MRUs) per app. Pro is $25/month ($20 billed annually) with 50,000 MRUs included, then $0.02 per additional MRU with volume discounts down to $0.012 at 10M+. Business is $300/month ($250 annually). Figures as published July 2026 — verify with Clerk.

What is a monthly retained user (MRU)?

Clerk bills on monthly retained users rather than raw MAUs — broadly, users who return in a given month rather than every account that ever signed up. This tends to bill lower than classic MAU pricing for apps with big but lightly-active user bases. Confirm the exact counting definition with Clerk before modeling.

What does Clerk's B2B / organizations feature cost?

B2B Authentication is a published add-on at $100/month ($85 billed annually) including 100 monthly retained organizations (MROs) per app, then $1 per additional MRO, as of July 2026. Enterprise SSO connections are published at $75/month each for 2–15 connections, declining to $15 at 500+.

When does Clerk get expensive?

Two patterns: consumer apps that blow through the included MRUs (at $0.02, one million retained users is ~$20k/month before volume discounts), and B2B SaaS with many enterprise SSO connections (each connection is its own monthly line). At those points compare against WorkOS, Auth0, and open-source options.

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