{"slug": "clerk", "name": "Clerk", "category": "security", "category_name": "Security and passwords", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 6, "warners": 1, "score": 1.038, "rising": -0.33, "first": "2026-02-26", "latest": "2026-10-28", "why": "", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 3, "compare": 1, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Clerk"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 775187969, "item_id": 48449248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449248", "by": "paulddraper", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Clerk, WorkOS, etc.", "excerpt": "You should really stay away from any \"high level\" AWS product, as there is almost always something much better and more flexible. Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache. But anything else that isn't low-to-mid-level (looking at you Beanstalk), use something better. Clerk, WorkOS, etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "authentication", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 768719281, "item_id": 48044955, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044955", "by": "jakubriedl", "date": "2026-05-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I really don't see a single reason why I would pick Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, ...", "excerpt": "I've recently switched from Clerk to BetterAuth as well and it's really good and definitely would recommend to anyone. It supports more things I need, it's more reliable, and much cheaper. The reason why it work for me is that it's finally a open-source solution that is on par or better with commercial. 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I use D1 for my database, Workers for the API and schedule tasks (including using Claude API to pre-review images and submissions), R2 for self hosted OpenStreetmap tiles, encrypted user pet records and images. I use Clerk for auth. Wild that it costs $5/month to serve tho", "context": "", "use_case": "authentication", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Independent Vet \u2013 Find locally owned vets (and corporate ones) near you"}, {"id": 787449237, "item_id": 49215577, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215577", "by": "rahulmax", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Clerk for auth", "excerpt": "Author here. Thank you very much for the kind words! I'm a product designer and a design engineer and I love tactile interfaces and typography. My goal was to challenge myself to build this purely by 'describing' the interface to an LLM, without giving it any image references. Being mosly working in Figma / Sketch for the past decade or so, the process was utterly painful and I craved to go back to Figma to polish an", "context": "", "use_case": "authentication", "switched_from": "", "story": "TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface"}, {"id": 775187969, "item_id": 48449248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449248", "by": "paulddraper", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Clerk, WorkOS, etc.", "excerpt": "You should really stay away from any \"high level\" AWS product, as there is almost always something much better and more flexible. Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache. But anything else that isn't low-to-mid-level (looking at you Beanstalk), use something better. Clerk, WorkOS, etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "authentication", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication"}, {"id": 768719281, "item_id": 48044955, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044955", "by": "jakubriedl", "date": "2026-05-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I really don't see a single reason why I would pick Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, ...", "excerpt": "I've recently switched from Clerk to BetterAuth as well and it's really good and definitely would recommend to anyone. It supports more things I need, it's more reliable, and much cheaper. The reason why it work for me is that it's finally a open-source solution that is on par or better with commercial. 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We were able to add a plugin to allow auth via iframe postMessage (embedded in a CRM) and everything worked seamlessly.", "context": "", "use_case": "authentication", "switched_from": "", "story": "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"}, {"id": 754662435, "item_id": 47166402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166402", "by": "HiTechK", "date": "2026-02-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Built with Next.js 16, Clerk for auth, and Neon for the database.", "excerpt": "Hi HN, I\u2019m the maker of EZClaw. I like OpenClaw since it launched. It\u2019s one of the most powerful ways to run a private AI assistant, but I noticed a recurring problem: unless you\u2019re comfortable with Docker, environment variables, and cloud providers, it\u2019s hard to get it running and keep it stable. I built EZClaw to bridge that gap. It\u2019s a managed hosting platform that handles the entire deployment lifecycle. You just", "context": "", "use_case": "authentication", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: EZClaw \u2013 Deploy OpenClaw in Minutes"}]}