Clerk vs Logto

Clerk provides full-stack authentication and user management for applications, including Organizations and Billing. Prebuilt components cover sign-up, sign-in, and user profiles, while Frontend, Backend, and Platform HTTP APIs support client-side, backend, and workspace operations. Clerk Billing handles subscription billing and charges 0.7% of billing volume in addition to Stripe fees. Its free B2B offering includes 100 monthly retained organizations per app and up to 20 members per Organization. Listed integrations include Convex, Firebase, Supabase, Shopify, Vercel Marketplace, and Google Analytics. Security practices include account lockout, bot protection, rate limiting, breached-password detection, and MFA enforcement. Clerk lists SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA certifications; SOC 2 reports are available on Business and above, while a HIPAA BAA is available on Enterprise. Data is hosted on US infrastructure, with no regional data residency. Clerk is available on Android, iOS, web, APIs, and extensions, and provides an iOS SDK for native Apple apps. Hobby is free; Pro costs $20/mo billed annually, and Business costs $250 per year billed annually.

Logto is a freemium identity and access-management solution for modern applications and SaaS products. It handles authentication through passwords, email or SMS one-time codes, social sign-in, passkeys, multifactor authentication and enterprise single sign-on. Authorization features include role-based access control and organizations for multi-tenant applications. Developers get a web Console, Management API, Experience API, Account API, SDKs and an MCP Server. Quick starts cover Android, iOS, Chrome extensions, React, Next.js, Vue, Flutter, Go,.NET, Python, PHP and WordPress. Listed connectors include Apple, Microsoft, Discord, Facebook, GitHub, GitLab, Google, LinkedIn, Slack and X. Security features include signing-key rotation, OIDC back-channel logout, CSRF protections and DoS protections. Logto states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified, with cloud regions in the EU, Australia, US and Japan. Cloud Free allows up to 50,000 monthly active users and includes 50K tokens; Pro costs $24 a month with 50K tokens included and extra usage billed. Self-hosted options include free OSS Community and Self-hosted Pro at $199 a month, billed annually.