Clerk
Transparency
Breakdown
| Subprocessor list | 30 / 30 | |
| Processing locations | 8 / 8 | |
| Purposes | 7 / 7 | |
| Data processing addendum | 12 / 12 | |
| Trust center | not found | 0 / 8 |
| Privacy policy | 6 / 6 | |
| security.txt | 6 / 6 | |
| Security page | 5 / 5 | |
| Status page | 5 / 5 | |
| Vulnerability disclosure | 5 / 5 | |
| Pages still reachable | 8 / 8 | |
| Total | 92 / 100 |
Only documents we can retrieve count: a page behind a login or a broken link scores nothing.
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| Document | Verified | Changed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subprocessor list | snapshot | ||
| Data processing addendum | snapshot | ||
| Privacy policy | snapshot | ||
| Terms | snapshot | ||
| Security page | snapshot | ||
| security.txt | snapshot | ||
| Status page incident.io | snapshot | ||
| Security advisories | snapshot |
Subprocessors
| Name | Purpose | Location | Listed since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic PBC | AI-powered support auto-reply, ticket classification, metadata generation, and lead qualification | United States | |
| Ashby, Inc. | Applicant tracking system (ATS) and job board powering the clerk.com/careers page and job application flow | United States | |
| Astrodon Inc. (Loops) | Transactional email delivery for customer feedback workflows | United States | |
| Clickhouse | Clerk uses ClickHouse Cloud for storage and processing of analytical workloads, and fraud analysis. | USA | |
| Cloudflare | Cloud infrastructure, CDN, DNS, and cloud security | United States | |
| DataDog | Cloud infrastructure & monitoring | United States | |
| Ding Negoce SAS (Prelude) | SMS/OTP verification and fraud signal scoring | France | |
| Google Cloud Platform (GCP) | Infrastructure | United States | |
| Inkeep, Inc. | AI-powered support search and ticket analysis via Chat Completions API | United States | |
| Not Just Tickets Ltd (Plain) | Customer support platform with bidirectional customer and thread data sync | United Kingdom | |
| OpenAI | LLM API used for automated abuse detection scanning of customer-customized email templates (phishing, spam, brand impersonation). | United States | |
| PlanetScale | Cloud database provider | United States | |
| PostHog | Product analytics and feature-flag/A-B testing | United States | |
| Railway Corporation | PaaS hosting for atlas support application, ELK stack, webhooks, bots, and observability | United States | |
| SendGrid | Email delivery | ||
| Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.) | Application error monitoring and performance tracking | United States | |
| Stripe | Payment processing | United States | |
| Svix | Webhook delivery | US | |
| Twilio | Twilio - SMS / Voice Sendgrid - email delivery | United States (primary), with global edge network processing via AWS/Equinix POPs | |
| Vercel | Webpage deployment | US | |
| Voyage AI Innovations, Inc. (MongoDB, Inc.) | Vector embedding generation and semantic search reranking for support content | United States |
Listed as a subprocessor by (16)
Purposes as each company states them.
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
Cartesia cartesia.ai Clerk provides user authentication, identity management, and user profile services for our software application.; User authentication and identity management
CodeRabbit coderabbit.ai SSO Authentication
CoinGecko coingecko.com
Conveo conveo.ai **Processing Activity Description** Identity Provider **Data Residency / Processing Location** US **Headquarters Location** San Francisco, United States; Identity provider
Daily daily.co User authentication
Dash0 dash0.com Authentication and User Management
Decagon decagon.ai Authentication and SSO provider
Decimal AI decimal.app
Inngest inngest.com
OpenRouter openrouter.ai Authentication
Parseable parseable.com Identity Management
Upstash upstash.com
marimo marimo.io User authentication, session management, and organization membership
replit replit.com
Changes
- Removed subprocessor: Segment evidence