Ship secure role-based data access in days instead of weeks.
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Clerk manages user roles and passes them to Supabase via JWT claims. Supabase RLS policies use these roles to control data access — no custom auth code needed.
~1 hr
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Some setup required
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See PlansOpen-source backend platform on PostgreSQL — database, authentication, file storage, edge functions, and real-time subscriptions out of the box. Firebase alternative you can self-host. 99,500+ GitHub stars. Free: 2 projects, 500MB, 50K MAU. Pro: $25/month (8GB, 100K MAU). Team: $599/month (SOC 2).
Clerk is a complete authentication and user management platform built for modern web apps, especially React and Next.js projects. It gives you drop-in UI components for sign-in, sign-up, user profiles, and organization management — all pre-styled and ready to go, so you skip weeks of security engineering work. The platform handles multi-factor authentication, session management, social logins, passwordless login, magic links, passkeys, and SAML SSO for enterprise customers. The free tier includes 10,000 monthly active users. Pro plans start at $25/month.
