🆚 Auth.js vs. Clerk

Type

Authentication service
Authentication service

About

Auth.js is an open-source authentication solution that integrates with Next.js, Nuxt, Qwik, and other modern JavaScript frameworks to handle user sign-in, session management, and access control.

It supports OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect providers, passwordless email authentication, and passkeys via WebAuthn, and can manage sessions using JSON Web Tokens or database adapters for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and SQLite.

Clerk is an authentication and user management service for Next.js, Remix, Nuxt, React, Vue, and other frameworks that provides prebuilt interfaces and APIs to handle user identity, sessions, and access control.

It offers drop-in UI components for sign-in, sign-up, user profiles, organizations, and billing, supports over 20 social login providers, and includes multifactor authentication, session lifecycle management, bot and fraud prevention, and customizable roles and permissions.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️50,000 Monthly Retained Users (MRU) limit per app
Pro
(MFA, SMS authentication)
$25+/month
Clerk BillingStripe 2.9% + Stripe transaction charge $0.30 + Clerk fee 0.7%

Categories

Authentication › Rank #14
Authentication › Rank #17
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #255

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Auth.js authentication service is 1.8 times more popular than Clerk.
Total websites

Market share

Authentication

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Auth.js is more popular in Germany, Norway, and France, while Clerk is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
United States
Germany
Norway
United Kingdom
France
Brazil
Austria
Japan
Turkey
Denmark

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Auth.js is more popular among sites focused on marketing and merchandising, business, and online shopping, while Clerk is more commonly used on restaurants sites.
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Online Shopping
Sports
Education/Reference
Internet Services
General News
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,784
#8,298
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Name
Rank
#1,962
#16,337
gptgirlfriend.online
#29,621
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See also

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