# Clerk Frontend API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/clerk/frontend-api/  
**Provider:** Clerk — https://apis.io/providers/clerk/  
**Base URL:** https://clerk.accounts.dev  
**Documentation:** https://clerk.com/docs/reference/frontend-api

Clerk Frontend API is one of 24 APIs that [Clerk](https://apis.io/providers/clerk/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Frontend, REST, and Sessions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Browser-facing API consumed by Clerk's frontend SDKs and ClerkJS for sign-up, sign-in, session refresh, and user profile mutations. Endpoint is instance-specific (subdomain on clerk.accounts.dev or a customer vanity domain). Authenticated with the publishable key and short-lived client tokens.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://clerk.com/docs/reference/frontend-api
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/clerk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Clerk APIs (12)

- [Clerk Webhooks (Svix)](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/webhooks/)
- [Clerk JavaScript SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/javascript/)
- [Clerk Next.js SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/sdk-nextjs/)
- [Clerk React SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/sdk-react/)
- [Clerk Expo SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/sdk-expo/)
- [Clerk React Router SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/sdk-react-router/)
- [Clerk Astro SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/sdk-astro/)
- [Clerk TanStack Start SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/sdk-tanstack-start/)
- [Clerk Node.js SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/sdk-node/)
- [Clerk Go SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/sdk-go/)
- [Clerk Python SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/sdk-python/)
- [Clerk Ruby SDK](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/sdk-ruby/)

## Tags

Frontend, REST, Sessions

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/clerk/frontend-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/clerk/.