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Alternatives to Clerk

4 Auth & Identity rivals, ranked by the same evidence-graded leaderboard — Clerk itself ranks #2 with a PA Score of 32/100. Every “beats Clerk on” below comes from a judged head-to-head round with cited evidence — see the methodology.

  1. #1Auth0 logo
    Auth0

    Okta, Inc.

    PA Score 32/100vs Clerk →
    coverage
    43.1/100

    Beats Clerk on: Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events · Have an agent obtain short-lived, user-consented tokens for third-party APIs (token vault/exchange) so tool calls run under the user's delegated authority

  2. #3Better Auth logo
    Better Auth

    Better Auth (Vercel)

    PA Score 31/100vs Clerk →
    coverage
    39.5/100

    Beats Clerk on: Self-host the core product · Manage session lifecycle — expiry, refresh, and immediate server-side revocation of a compromised session

  3. #4WorkOS logo
    WorkOS

    WorkOS, Inc.

    PA Score 23/100vs Clerk →
    coverage
    36.0/100

    Beats Clerk on: Sync users and groups from customer directories via SCIM so deprovisioning in the IdP revokes app access · Put a spec-compliant OAuth authorization flow in front of my MCP server so remote agents connect with scoped, verifiable tokens

  4. #5Keycloak logo
    Keycloak

    Keycloak (CNCF)

    PA Score 22/100vs Clerk →
    coverage
    38.1/100

    Beats Clerk on: Self-host the core product · Control where the auth system and its user data run — self-managed deployment, private instance, or my own database

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