Clerk vs Kinde: free tier limits side by side
The free tier limit rows of Clerk and Kinde, as each vendor's public page listed them. Data collected on 2026-10-05.
Each column keeps the order of that tool's own page. A row puts two items next to each other by position only: they are the same kind of limit only when the item names say so. This page ranks nothing and picks neither tool.
| Clerk | Kinde |
|---|---|
| Monthly retained users: 50,000 per app | Monthly active users: 10,500 |
| Monthly retained organizations: 100 | Monthly active organizations: 5 |
| Members per organization: 20 | M2M tokens: 2,000 |
| Dashboard seats: 3 | Enterprise SSO connections: 1 |
| Social connections: 3 | Custom roles: 2 |
| M2M token creations: 2,500 per month | Permissions: 10 |
| Application log retention: 1 day | SMS: 10 |
| Audit log retention: 1 day |
Tool pages
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