Amplitude vs Clerk

Digital analytics + experimentation + CDP
vs. User management and authentication as a service

Pricing tiers

Amplitude

Starter (Free)

10K Monthly Tracked Users, 10M events/mo. Session Replay + unlimited feature flags + Web Experimentation + AI Feedback included.

Free

Plus

$49/mo (annual). Up to 300K MTUs + 25M events. Unlimited product analytics, behavioral cohorts, feature tagging, custom audiences.

$49/mo

Growth

Custom. Causal insights, Feature Experimentation, real-time streaming, predictive audiences.

Custom

Enterprise

Custom. Cross-product analysis, advanced data controls, mutual exclusion groups, multi-armed bandit.

Custom

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Clerk

Free

50k MAU included. No SSO/SAML. Perfect for side projects and early prototypes.

Free

Pro

$25/mo (or $20/mo annual). 50k MAU, $0.02 each after. 1 enterprise SSO connection per app. Webhooks, JWT templates, custom session duration.

$25/mo

Business

$300/mo (or $250/mo annual). Advanced organizations, enhanced support, additional enterprise features.

$300/mo

Enterprise

Custom. Volume MAU discounts, SLA, workspace-wide SAML SSO, dedicated support.

Custom

Clerk website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing starter on Amplitude vs hobby on Clerk.

Metric	Amplitude	Clerk
mao	—	100 orgs/month
mau	—	50000 users/month
sso connections	—	0 connections

Features

Amplitude · 13 features

AI Feedback (Asking) — Natural language questions over your Amplitude data.
Amplitude CDP — Customer Data Platform — identify, segment, sync to 150+ destinations.
Causal Insights — AI identifies why a metric changed — root cause.
Cross-Product Analysis — Analyze across multiple apps/products in the same org.
Data Governance — Taxonomies, schemas, approvals, category management.
Data Warehouse Sync — Sync data to/from Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks.
Feature Experimentation — Server-side / SDK-level experiments. Growth+.
Feature Flags — Targeting rules + rollouts. Unlimited in Starter.
North Star Metric — Pre-built dashboards for key metric tracking.
Predictive Audiences — ML-based forecasting of user behavior.
Product Analytics — Core events + funnels + retention + segmentation.
Session Replay — Pixel-perfect user session recording + privacy masking.
Web Experimentation — A/B test visual changes on your site without deploy.

Clerk · 15 features

Account Portal — Hosted sign-in/user profile pages at accounts.yourapp.com — zero UI code, fully …
Bot Protection — Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA integrated into sign-up.
Clerk Billing — Built-in Stripe-powered billing: subscriptions, plans, proration — ties directly…
Enterprise SSO (SAML/OIDC) — SAML and OIDC for enterprise customers. Per-domain connection. Pro+ (1 included)…
Impersonation — Act as a user from dashboard to debug. Logged.
JWT Templates — Custom JWT issuance for third-party backends (Supabase, Hasura, Firebase, Convex…
Machine Tokens (M2M) — API keys and machine tokens for service-to-service auth in addition to user sess…
Multi-Factor Auth — TOTP (authenticator apps), SMS OTP, backup codes. Forced or optional per user.
Organizations (B2B) — Multi-tenant orgs with roles, permissions, invitations, domain allowlist, and pe…
Passkeys (WebAuthn) — Passwordless passkey sign-in with per-device biometrics.
Prebuilt Components — Drop-in React components: <SignIn/>, <SignUp/>, <UserButton/>, <OrganizationSwit…
Sessions — Server-side session tokens. Sliding expiration by default; configurable absolute…
User Management — Full user CRUD, metadata (public/private/unsafe), email/phone verification, ban/…
Waitlist Mode — Collect sign-ups before opening the app. Approve waitlist entries to activate ac…
Webhooks — Events: user.created/updated/deleted, session.created, organization.* — delivere…

Developer interfaces

Kind	Amplitude	Clerk
SDK	amplitude-analytics-python, @amplitude/analytics-react-native, amplitude-android, amplitude-js / browser-sdk, amplitude-node, AmplitudeSwift (iOS)	@clerk/astro, @clerk/backend / @clerk/clerk-sdk-node, @clerk/chrome-extension, @clerk/clerk-expo, @clerk/clerk-js (vanilla), @clerk/clerk-react, @clerk/clerk-react-native, @clerk/nextjs, @clerk/nuxt, @clerk/remix, clerk-sdk-go, clerk-sdk-python, clerk-sdk-ruby, @clerk/tanstack-start, @clerk/vue
REST	Amplitude HTTP API v2, Batch Event API, Export API	Backend REST API, Frontend API
MCP	—	Clerk MCP
OTHER	Data Destinations (webhooks)	Webhooks (Svix)

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