🆚 Clerk vs. Supabase

Type

Authentication service
Cloud service

About

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.

Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL.

It provides a hosted Postgres database with RESTful and GraphQL APIs, built-in authentication, secure file storage, support for edge functions written in TypeScript with global deployment, role-based access control, and row-level security.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
Singapore

Website

Pricing

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%
Free version ✔️Self-hosted, open source
Hosted
Free version ✔️500 MB database space, 50K monthly active users
Pro
(8 GB per project, 100K MAU)
$25+/month
Team
(+ SSO)
$599+/month

Categories

Authentication › Rank #17
Authentication › Rank #6
Cloud Services › Rank #20
Databases › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Supabase cloud service is 6 times more popular than Clerk.
Total websites

Market share

Authentication

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Supabase is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China, while Clerk is more popular in Norway and Romania.
United States
United Kingdom
China
France
India
Brazil
Germany
Netherlands
Australia
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Supabase is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Clerk is more commonly used on restaurants sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Travel
Entertainment
Real Estate
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,962
#16,337
gptgirlfriend.online
#29,621
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Name
Rank
ecuab*t.com
#3,577
#7,645
doradob*t.com
#8,853
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See also

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