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Clerk Product Plan

Drop-in auth for React/Next.js with UI components, session management, organizations, and webhooks.

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Open the editable plan instantly, or carry its requirements into a generated system Architecture.

Pre-built sign-in/sign-up UI

Social OAuth (Google, GitHub, etc.)

Organizations and roles

Session management

Webhooks for user events

Custom claims and metadata

Multi-factor authentication

Bot protection

User impersonation

Clerk Elements (headless)

As a developer, I can add auth to Next.js in 5 minutes

As a user, I can sign in with Google or email

As a developer, I can manage organizations and roles

As a developer, I can receive webhooks on user signup

As an admin, I can manage users from the dashboard

TypeScriptReactNext.jsPostgreSQLRedisGoCloudflare WorkersgRPCVercel

Category	Requirement	Target
Performance	Auth flow	< 500ms for complete sign-in render
Scalability	Users	Handle millions of auth sessions per day
Availability	Auth	99.99%: login downtime locks users out of apps
Security	Standards	SOC2, OIDC, bot protection, brute force mitigation

MVPDrop-in Auth

Sign-in/sign-up componentsEmail + social OAuthSession managementNext.js SDK

v1.0Organizations

Multi-tenant orgsRoles/permissionsWebhooksMFAUser management dashboard

v2.0Platform

Clerk Elements (headless)Bot protectionCustom claimsImpersonationB2B features

Time to add auth: < 5 minutes

Auth success rate: > 99.5%

Developer NPS: > 70

Monthly active apps: > 100K

Real-time ride-sharing platform with driver matching, GPS tracking, surge pricing, and payments.

Video streaming platform with personalized recommendations, adaptive bitrate streaming, and content management.

Team messaging platform with channels, direct messages, file sharing, integrations, and real-time search.

Open the editable Product Plan first, then carry it into Architecture and Plan & Ship when it is ready.