Drop-in authentication and user management service for React, Next.js, and other modern frontends.
Found via: Product Hunt 1,333 · Hacker News 85 · PeerPush 182 · Other 5 · StackScope Discovery (Indie) 604 · StackScope Wider Web 229
Clerk has been detected on 1,605 launches we've crawled, with 234 of those in July 2026 (2.2% of the month's launches so far). The 7-day rolling share is 2.2%, roughly steady week on week. Most recent detection: College Fit Project, today.
It's most commonly paired with Cloudflare, Cloudflare Bot Management, and HSTS. By product type, the launches using it are most often AI (19%), Marketing (15%), and Developer Tools (13%). By estimated origin, the United States leads (28%), ahead of India (17%). By domain ending, launches using it are 2.0 times as likely as the average launch to live on a .co domain. The 1,605 scored launches using Clerk average a StackScope score of 6.7 out of 10, against 6.3 across all launches we score.
What kind of products ship with Clerk
1,235 launches
Countries that use Clerk
Estimated origin for 578 of 1,605 launches
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United States 27.68%
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India 16.78%
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China 12.63%
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United Kingdom 9.52%
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Canada 3.29%
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Australia 2.77%
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France 2.60%
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Germany 2.08%
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Spain 1.90%
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Italy 1.38%
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Netherlands 1.21%
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Switzerland 0.87%
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Israel 0.87%
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New Zealand 0.87%
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Sweden 0.87%
Share of new launches using Clerk
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average.
How StackScope detects technologies
⋮ Apr 22, 2026: Improved detection coverage for this technology.
⋮ Jun 22, 2026: Improved detection coverage for this technology.
Auth leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
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3.83% | 42.34% |
| #2 | ▼1 |
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2.68% | 29.58% |
| #3 | ▲1 |
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2.53% | 27.90% |
| #4 | – |
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0.24% | 2.65% |
| #5 | – |
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0.14% | 1.59% |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Auth tool.The most common alternatives to Clerk among indie launches are Google Sign-In and Google OAuth. All 38 in Auth →
Highest-scoring launches using Clerk
The top launches by StackScope score among the 1,605 we've detected using Clerk.
Most recent of 1,605 launches using Clerk
College Fit Project
QueryTrace
ShotFixer
TrackRev
Spacemolt
Developer Tools
MarketBase
Dream Pixel AI
AI
Saywell
ChatVideoLab
Aetherya
Bundlle
OPINIS
Marketing
Showing the most recent 12 of 1,605.