Clerk

aid: clerk-com
name: Clerk
description: >
  Clerk is a complete user management and authentication infrastructure platform offering embeddable UI components,
  flexible APIs, and admin dashboards. It provides full-stack authentication including multi-factor authentication,
  social sign-on, passkeys, organizations for B2B SaaS, billing, session management, and machine-to-machine
  authentication, with SDKs spanning Next.js, React, Expo, iOS, Android, Go, Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, and C#.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Authentication
  - Authorization
  - B2B SaaS
  - CIAM
  - Identity Management
  - MFA
  - OAuth
  - OpenID Connect
  - Organizations
  - Passkeys
  - SAML
  - Security
  - Sessions
  - SSO
  - User Management
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/clerk-com/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-22'
modified: '2026-05-22'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: clerk-com:clerk-backend-api
    name: Clerk Backend API
    description: >
      The Clerk Backend API is a REST API meant to be accessed by backend servers. It exposes resources for managing
      users, sessions, organizations, invitations, JWT templates, OAuth applications, SAML connections, M2M tokens, API
      keys, and billing — wrapped by every official Clerk backend SDK.
    humanURL: https://clerk.com/docs/reference/backend-api
    baseURL: https://api.clerk.com/v1
    tags:
      - Authentication
      - Backend
      - Identity Management
      - REST
      - User Management
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://clerk.com/docs/reference/backend-api
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://clerk.com/docs/reference/backend-api
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/clerk-backend-api-openapi.yml
      - type: GettingStarted
        url: https://clerk.com/docs/quickstarts/overview
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://clerk.com/docs/backend-requests/making/jwt-templates
      - type: SpectralRuleset
        url: rules/clerk-rules.yml
  - aid: clerk-com:clerk-frontend-api
    name: Clerk Frontend API
    description: >
      The Clerk Frontend API powers Clerk's prebuilt UI components and JavaScript SDKs. It handles sign-in, sign-up,
      session, organization, passkey, multi-factor, billing, and waitlist flows directly from browser, mobile, and
      chrome-extension contexts.
    humanURL: https://clerk.com/docs
    baseURL: https://{domain}.clerk.accounts.dev
    tags:
      - Authentication
      - Frontend
      - JavaScript
      - Sessions
      - Sign-In
      - Sign-Up
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://clerk.com/docs
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/clerk-frontend-api-openapi.yml
  - aid: clerk-com:clerk-platform-api
    name: Clerk Platform API
    description: >
      The Clerk Platform API (beta) is a partner / reseller surface for programmatically creating and managing Clerk
      applications, domains, application transfers, users, JWT templates, redirect URLs, and platform configuration on
      behalf of end customers.
    humanURL: https://clerk.com/docs
    baseURL: https://api.clerk.com/v1
    tags:
      - Applications
      - Beta
      - Multi-Tenant
      - Partner
      - Platform
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://clerk.com/docs
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/clerk-platform-api-openapi.yml
  - aid: clerk-com:clerk-webhooks
    name: Clerk Webhooks
    description: >
      Clerk Webhooks deliver real-time events for users, sessions, organizations, invitations, email, SMS, and SAML
      changes via Svix, allowing applications to react asynchronously to identity lifecycle events.
    humanURL: https://clerk.com/docs/webhooks/overview
    baseURL: https://api.clerk.dev/v1
    tags:
      - Events
      - Svix
      - Webhooks
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://clerk.com/docs/webhooks/overview
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/clerk-webhooks-openapi.yml
common:
  - type: Homepage
    url: https://clerk.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://clerk.com/docs
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://dashboard.clerk.com/sign-up
  - type: SignIn
    url: https://dashboard.clerk.com/sign-in
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://clerk.com/pricing
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://clerk.com/terms
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://clerk.com/privacy
  - type: Security
    url: https://clerk.com/security
  - type: Blog
    url: https://clerk.com/blog
  - type: Changelog
    url: https://clerk.com/changelog
  - type: ChangelogRSS
    url: https://clerk.com/changelog/atom.xml
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://status.clerk.com
  - type: Support
    url: https://clerk.com/support
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/clerk
  - type: OpenAPIRepository
    url: https://github.com/clerk/openapi-specs
  - type: X
    url: https://x.com/ClerkDev
  - type: SDK
    name: Next.js / React / Astro / Remix / Vue / Nuxt JavaScript Monorepo
    url: https://github.com/clerk/javascript
  - type: SDK
    name: Clerk Go SDK
    url: https://github.com/clerk/clerk-sdk-go
  - type: SDK
    name: Clerk Python SDK
    url: https://github.com/clerk/clerk-sdk-python
  - type: SDK
    name: Clerk Ruby SDK
    url: https://github.com/clerk/clerk-sdk-ruby
  - type: SDK
    name: Clerk Java SDK
    url: https://github.com/clerk/clerk-sdk-java
  - type: SDK
    name: Clerk PHP SDK
    url: https://github.com/clerk/clerk-sdk-php
  - type: SDK
    name: Clerk C# / .NET SDK
    url: https://github.com/clerk/clerk-sdk-csharp
  - type: SDK
    name: Clerk iOS SDK
    url: https://github.com/clerk/clerk-ios
  - type: SDK
    name: Clerk Android SDK
    url: https://github.com/clerk/clerk-android
  - type: SDK
    name: Clerk Flutter SDK
    url: https://github.com/clerk/clerk-sdk-flutter
  - type: CLI
    name: Clerk CLI
    url: https://github.com/clerk/cli
  - type: CLI
    name: Clerk Protect CLI (Early Access)
    url: https://github.com/clerk/protect-cli
  - type: Integration
    name: Supabase
    url: https://clerk.com/docs/integrations/databases/supabase
  - type: Integration
    name: Convex
    url: https://clerk.com/docs/integrations/databases/convex
  - type: Integration
    name: Vercel
    url: https://vercel.com/integrations/clerk
  - type: Tool
    name: Clerk Agent Toolkit
    url: https://github.com/clerk/agent-toolkit-example
  - type: Tool
    name: AgentPass
    url: https://github.com/clerk/agentpass
  - type: Tool
    name: MCP Tools
    url: https://github.com/clerk/mcp-tools
  - type: Tool
    name: Migration Tool
    url: https://github.com/clerk/migration-tool
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/clerk-com-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/clerk-com-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/clerk-com-finops.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/clerk-com-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/clerk-com-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-user-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-user-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-session-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-session-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-organization-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-organization-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-organizationmembership-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-organizationmembership-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-organizationinvitation-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-organizationinvitation-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-invitation-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-invitation-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-emailaddress-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-emailaddress-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-phonenumber-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-phonenumber-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-client-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-client-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-oauthapplication-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-oauthapplication-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-samlconnection-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-samlconnection-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-jwttemplate-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-jwttemplate-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-signintoken-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-signintoken-structure.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/clerk-actortoken-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/clerk-actortoken-structure.json
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: https://clerk.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    X: https://x.com/apievangelist