Clerk

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Clerk declares 18 subprocessors in its subprocessor list, which we last checked on Nov 11, 2026 (evidence). They include Google Cloud, OpenAI and Stripe. The list last changed on Oct 23, 2026: 0 added, 1 removed. 47 tracked vendors name Clerk as a subprocessor, including OpenRouter, Braintrust and Cartesia.

Subprocessors CSV of Clerk's subprocessors · Atom feed of Clerk's subprocessors DORA draft CSV of Clerk's subprocessors as declared by Clerk what's this? · 

18 third parties.

NamePurposeLocationListed since
Anthropic PBC AIAI-powered support auto-reply, ticket classification, metadata generation, and lead qualificationUnited States
Clickhouse Clerk uses ClickHouse Cloud for storage and processing of analytical workloads, and fraud analysis.USA
Cloudflare Cloud infrastructure, CDN, DNS, and cloud securityUnited States
DataDog Cloud infrastructure & monitoringUnited States
Ding Negoce SAS (Prelude) SMS/OTP verification and fraud signal scoringFrance
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) InfrastructureUnited States
mailgun Infrastructure for email deliveryUSA
Not Just Tickets Ltd (Plain) Customer support platform with bidirectional customer and thread data syncUnited Kingdom
OpenAI AILLM API used for automated abuse detection scanning of customer-customized email templates (phishing, spam, brand impersonation).United States
PlanetScale Cloud database providerUnited States
Railway Corporation PaaS hosting for atlas support application, ELK stack, webhooks, bots, and observabilityUnited States
SendGrid Email delivery
Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.) Application error monitoring and performance trackingUnited States
Stripe Payment processingUnited States
Svix Webhook deliveryUS
Turbopuffer An infrastructure service that supports indexing and searching across Clerk user data efficiently.USA
Twilio Twilio - SMS / Voice Sendgrid - email deliveryUnited States (primary), with global edge network processing via AWS/Equinix POPs
Vercel Webpage deploymentUS

Web TechnologiesCSV of Clerk's web technologies · Atom feed of Clerk's web technologies

Clerk's homepage made 167 requests to 11 domains, and 4 services controlled by another company.

Advertising (3): Google Cloud, Reddit, Inc., X Corp.Analytics (1): LinkedIn

4 third parties by category: Advertising 3Analytics 1

Third parties 4 · 15 requests
Google Cloudsubprocessor DoubleClick Floodlight Google Analytics Google Tag Manager 4% of the page's requests 6
LinkedIn Linkedin Insight Tag 2% of the page's requests 3
Reddit, Inc. Reddit Ads 2% of the page's requests 3
X Corp. Twitter Ads 2% of the page's requests 3
First party 1 · 152 requests
Clerk Clerk 6.41.0 Framer Motion HSTS Next.js 16.4.3 Next.js App Router Open Graph PostHog Priority Hints RSS Radix UI React Turbopack Vercel Vercel Speed Insights 1.2.0 Webpack 91% of the page's requests 152

1 tracked company loaded by the homepage is not in Clerk's subprocessor list. A website can use a service without it processing customer data.

Subprocessor of (47)CSV of the companies listing Clerk · Atom feed of the companies listing Clerk

47 companies
  • ai-coustics ai-coustics.com
  • Alguna alguna.com Authentication
  • Ampersand ampersand.ai Provides authentication and identity management for users accessing Ampersand's application.; User authentication
  • Betterworks betterworks.com Cloud-based platform used to provide authentication and user management services.
  • Braintrust braintrust.dev Authentication
  • Browserbase browserbase.com Provides user management and authentication solutions (sign-up, sign-in, user profiles). Responsible for storing and verifying user credentials, generating authentication tokens, and managing session data under customer direction. Browserbase defines user data handling policies and integrate Clerk’s authentication mechanisms into their applications.; User Management
  • Bullseye bullseye.so User authentication, authorization, session management, organization management
  • Cartesia cartesia.ai Clerk provides user authentication, identity management, and user profile services for our software application.; User authentication and identity management
  • Civic Roundtable civicroundtable.com Authentication; Powers authentication - passwords, MFA, magic links, passkeys, and SSO (SAML or OIDC).
  • CodeRabbit coderabbit.ai SSO Authentication
  • CoinGecko coingecko.com
  • Conveo conveo.ai Identity provider; Processing Activity Description Identity Provider Data Residency / Processing Location US Headquarters Location San Francisco, United States
  • Daily daily.co User authentication
  • Dash0 dash0.com Authentication and User Management
  • Decagon decagon.ai Authentication and SSO provider
  • Decimal AI decimal.app
  • Demandbase demandbase.com Identity Management for Mojo by Demandbase
  • Enrichley enrichley.com Authentication, user, and session management
  • Firmable firmable.ai User Management and Authentication
  • Frigade frigade.com Authentication
  • Inngest inngest.com
  • JetStack AI jetstack.ai Authentication and identity management
  • LeadMagic leadmagic.io User authentication, profile management, organization mapping, and access security (customer app and partner portal instances).
  • LightTable lighttable.ai User authentication and identity
  • marimo marimo.io User authentication, session management, and organization membership
  • ModernLoop modernloop.com Authentication Platform. Applicable to ModernLoop's AI products only.
  • Novu novu.co
  • Oboard oboard.io
  • OpenRouter openrouter.ai Authentication
  • Origami origami.chat Authentication and identity
  • Outlit outlit.ai User authentication, session management, user profile data
  • Parseable parseable.com Identity Management
  • Pollen pollen.cx User authentication, identity, and session management for firm-side users
  • ProjectDiscovery projectdiscovery.io Identity Management & Authentication
  • replit replit.com
  • SonarSource sonarsource.com Customer Identity and Access Management
  • Spara spara.com Best-in-class authentication and user management.
  • Strivelabs strivelabs.ai Sign-up and Sign-in via single-sign on.
  • swan getswan.com User authentication and identity management
  • Tembo tembo.io User authentication and management.
  • TranscriptFetch transcriptfetch.com Authentication
  • Turso turso.tech Authentication to the Turso platform
  • Unily unily.com Sign-in, organization and session management. Doesn't receive customer content. Applicable only to customers opting to use Content Studio's built-in sign-in instead of their own Microsoft Entra ID
  • Upstash upstash.com
  • Vasco vasco.app Authentication
  • Whalesync whalesync.com Authentication and user management
  • ZenABM zenabm.com Authentication provider (migration planned, 2026)

Service statusCSV of Clerk's status page incidents · Atom feed of Clerk's status page incidents

Aug 14: no incident reportedAug 15: no incident reportedAug 16: no incident reportedAug 17: no incident reportedAug 18: no incident reportedAug 19: no incident reportedAug 20: no incident reportedAug 21: no incident reportedAug 22: no incident reportedAug 23: no incident reportedAug 24: no incident reportedAug 25: no incident reportedAug 26: no incident reportedAug 27: no incident reportedAug 28: no incident reportedAug 29: no incident reportedAug 30: no incident reportedAug 31: 1 incident (1 minor)Sep 1: 1 incident (1 minor)Sep 2: no incident reportedSep 3: no incident reportedSep 4: 1 incident (1 minor)Sep 5: no incident reportedSep 6: no incident reportedSep 7: no incident reportedSep 8: no incident reportedSep 9: no incident reportedSep 10: no incident reportedSep 11: no incident reportedSep 12: no incident reportedSep 13: no incident reportedSep 14: no incident reportedSep 15: no incident reportedSep 16: 1 incident (1 minor)Sep 17: no incident reportedSep 18: no incident reportedSep 19: no incident reportedSep 20: no incident reportedSep 21: no incident reportedSep 22: no incident reportedSep 23: no incident reportedSep 24: no incident reportedSep 25: no incident reportedSep 26: no incident reportedSep 27: no incident reportedSep 28: 1 incident (1 minor)Sep 29: no incident reportedSep 30: no incident reportedOct 1: 1 incident (1 minor)Oct 2: no incident reportedOct 3: no incident reportedOct 4: no incident reportedOct 5: no incident reportedOct 6: no incident reportedOct 7: no incident reportedOct 8: no incident reportedOct 9: no incident reportedOct 10: no incident reportedOct 11: no incident reportedOct 12: no incident reportedOct 13: no incident reportedOct 14: no incident reportedOct 15: no incident reportedOct 16: no incident reportedOct 17: no incident reportedOct 18: no incident reportedOct 19: no incident reportedOct 20: no incident reportedOct 21: 1 incident (1 minor)Oct 22: no incident reportedOct 23: no incident reportedOct 24: no incident reportedOct 25: no incident reportedOct 26: no incident reportedOct 27: no incident reportedOct 28: no incident reportedOct 29: 1 incident (1 major)Oct 30: no incident reportedOct 31: no incident reportedNov 1: no incident reportedNov 2: no incident reportedNov 3: 1 incident (1 minor)Nov 4: no incident reportedNov 5: no incident reportedNov 6: no incident reportedNov 7: no incident reportedNov 8: no incident reportedNov 9: no incident reportedNov 10: no incident reportedNov 11: no incident reported

90 days agotoday

  • 9 incidents in 90 days
  • 1 major or critical
  • 4 h 34 min typical time to resolve
  • 36 min longest major
BeganIncidentImpactLasted
Elevated error rates for authentication requestsminor—
SMS Delivery Issuesmajor36 min
Issues with Documentation "Ask AI"minor45 h 47 min
Dashboard increased latencyminor14 h 18 min
Development instances only - Apple rejecting emailsminor21 days
Delays in webhook deliveryminor1 h 7 min
Delayed email delivery to Microsoft (Outlook / Microsoft 365) recipientsminor4 h 34 min
GCP incident in us-central1-bminor3 h 25 min

Incidents per month

0 4 8 Apr 2026: 1 incident (1 minor) · partial: our history begins Apr 27 · typical time to resolve 2 h 35 min May 2026: 7 incidents (1 critical, 2 major, 4 minor) · typical time to resolve 1 h 16 min Jun 2026: 5 incidents (1 major, 4 minor) · typical time to resolve 40 min Jul 2026: 6 incidents (1 major, 5 minor) · typical time to resolve 36 min Aug 2026: 3 incidents (3 minor) · typical time to resolve 36 min Sep 2026: 4 incidents (4 minor) · typical time to resolve 4 h 34 min Oct 2026: 3 incidents (1 major, 2 minor) · typical time to resolve 14 h 18 min Nov 2026: 1 incident (1 minor) Apr 2026May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov

critical major minor no impact stated before or partly before our history

As Clerk's status page reports its own incidents (scheduled maintenance left out), read every few hours since (evidence)

Incidents reported by Clerk's subprocessorsCSV of incidents reported by vendors Clerk lists · Atom feed of incidents reported by vendors Clerk lists

270 reported incidents in the last 30 days, by 13 of the vendors Clerk lists as subprocessors.

A subprocessor list names a company, not the service an incident touched. This does not show that Clerk was involved.

DateCompanyIncidentImpactLasted
SentryUS issues feed throwing intermittent errors minor51 min
ClickHouseProvisioning and scaling operations may take longer in AWS ap-northeast-1 Tokyo minorongoing
Twilio· SendGridSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to Turkcell Turkey minor3 h 54 min
SentryAccount emails not being delivered major42 min
Twilio· SendGridRetroactive Incident Impacting Twilio Usage APIs no impact stated1 min
AnthropicElevated errors on Fable 52 and Mythos 52 no impact stated1 min
Twilio· SendGridIssue resolved minor1 h 43 min
SentryEU region replay ingestion latency minor48 min
VercelElevated Sandbox and Blob request latency and errors minor1 min
Twilio· SendGridSMS Delivery Receipt Delays from Twilio Phone Numbers to Movistar Venezuela minor3 h 26 min
Twilio· SendGridGateway API (Lookup API) Failure Increase on Verizon in United States minor10 h 23 min
OpenAIIncorrect cost data in Costs API exports no impact stated2 h 20 min
OpenAIElevated Errors On API minor42 min
PlainHelp Center errors no impact stated—
Twilio· SendGridWhatsApp Business API Message Send Failures minor16 h 29 min
OpenAIElevated ChatGPT Conversation Errors minor52 min
Twilio· SendGridVoice Call Failures from a Subset of Twilio Phone Numbers to Chile minor19 h 20 min
Twilio· SendGridVoice Call Audio Quality Degradation, Silent and One-Way Audio between Twilio and Multiple Networks in United Kingdom minor5 h 18 min
Twilio· SendGridSMS Delivery Delays and Failures from a Subset of Twilio Alphanumeric Sender IDs and Long Codes to Multiple Networks in Italy minor3 h 14 min
Twilio· SendGridSMS Delivery Delays and Failures from Twilio to Spusu United Kingdom minor3 h 26 min
Twilio· SendGridSMS Delivery Receipt Delays from Twilio to Bouygues Telecom France minor13 h 31 min
PlainIntermittent API errors on write actions minor2 h 54 min
Twilio· SendGridSMS Delivery Failures from Network Subscribers in Germany to a Subset of Twilio Long Codes minor8 h 40 min
Twilio· SendGridSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to ETL Laos minor16 h 8 min
Twilio· SendGridSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to MTN Nigeria minor6 h

And 245 more. All of them: CSV · Who is around them.

ChangesCSV of Clerk's changes · Atom feed of Clerk's changes

See the list as we read it on any date: Time machine

  1. Removed subprocessor: Astrodon Inc. (Loops) evidence: subprocessor: Astrodon Inc. (Loops) list before and after: subprocessor: Astrodon Inc. (Loops)
  2. Removed subprocessor: Segment evidence: subprocessor: Segment list before and after: subprocessor: Segment
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