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Mar 2026Clerk published a postmortem for a March 10, 2026 system outage caused by a Google Cloud SQL live migration; it said most of the engineering team was shifted to reliability work.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Clerk is a San Francisco-based, fully remote developer platform that solves user management with embeddable authentication, organization, and billing tools. It focuses on helping builders ship secure auth/user flows quickly across modern web frameworks and AI-agent workflows.
Primary product
Embeddable authentication and user management platform (with B2B org management and billing)
Founded
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
90-100
Work style
Remote
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Developer tools / identity infrastructure / authentication and user management
Offices
San Francisco, CA (HQ)
Business model
B2B SaaS
developer tools
self-serve subscription
usage-based pricing
enterprise contracts
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
CEO, Co-founder
CTO, Co-founder
Head of Operations & Finance
VP of Marketing
Director of Engineering
Head of Mobile Engineering
Work & culture
Globally distributed and fully remote, with an emphasis on craft, ownership, collaboration, self-motivation, and an ego-less, detail-obsessed builder culture.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public job and careers materials emphasize competitive salary, equity ownership, unlimited vacation, home-office gear, and US health coverage; no public salary bands were found.
Benefits
competitive salary
equity ownership / stock options
unlimited vacation
home-office equipment stipend
top-tier health insurance for US-based employees
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium/self-serve tiers priced by Monthly Retained Users (MRUs) and Monthly Retained Organizations (MROs), with usage-based add-ons and custom Enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
- —drop-in UI components
- —full-stack auth plus user management in one platform
- —built-in B2B organization management
- —billing and entitlement integration
- —ship auth flows in minutes
- —developer-velocity focus
- —highly customizable prebuilt components
- —agent-friendly APIs and tooling
Technology
React
Next.js
Expo
Astro
React Router
TanStack React Start
OAuth
SAML
MFA
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
Cloudflare
Fastly
Vercel
Stripe Billing
Google Cloud SQL
Google Cloud Run
MCP
Customers
Browserbase
Inngest
Braintrust
Durable
OpenRouter
Higgsfield
Upstash
Samaya AI
Consensus
Cartesia
David AI
Grafbase
Honeylove
Blueground
Competitors
Auth0
Supabase Auth
Firebase Auth
Descope
Stytch
WorkOS
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
approximately $3.5M annual revenue (public profile range: $1M-$10M)
Estimated monthly visits
1.6M
Signals & risks
Other
Feb 2026Clerk published a DNS provider outage postmortem describing an authoritative DNS failure that disrupted APIs, the dashboard, and some email delivery.
SourceOther
Jun 2025Clerk published a service outage postmortem for a June 26, 2025 incident that took all Clerk services down for roughly 45 minutes.
SourceLatest news
Clerk changelog · Jul 2026
Clerk announced MCP CLI support, extending its agent-friendly tooling and developer workflow integrations.
Clerk blog · Mar 2026
A database-provider live migration caused a major outage; Clerk said it shifted most engineering effort to reliability and is rethinking database infrastructure.
Clerk blog · Mar 2026
Clerk repositioned around AI-era development, new APIs, agent skills, MCP, and more composable/customizable auth primitives.
Clerk blog · Feb 2026
An authoritative DNS failure caused a partial/complete outage for APIs, the dashboard, and some email delivery; Clerk said it would add DNS redundancy.
Clerk blog · Oct 2025
Clerk announced a $50M Series C led by Menlo Ventures and Anthropic’s Anthology Fund, saying the new capital will fund agent identity, better DX, broader product surface area, and reliability work.
Jobs and careers at Clerk
1 job at Clerk
Brand Designer
Remote
Design
Remote or In-Office in San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time