Clerk 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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Updated Jul 29, 2026
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
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Offices
Business model
Leadership
CEO, Co-founder
CTO, Co-founder
Head of Operations & Finance
VP of Marketing
Director of Engineering
Head of Mobile Engineering
Investors
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
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
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
approximately $3.5M annual revenue (public profile range: $1M-$10M)
Estimated monthly visits
1.6M
Clerk 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.
SourceClerk published a DNS provider outage postmortem describing an authoritative DNS failure that disrupted APIs, the dashboard, and some email delivery.
SourceClerk published a service outage postmortem for a June 26, 2025 incident that took all Clerk services down for roughly 45 minutes.
SourceClerk 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.