Clerk
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.
| Name | Purpose | Location | Listed since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic PBC AI | AI-powered support auto-reply, ticket classification, metadata generation, and lead qualification | 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 | |
| mailgun | Infrastructure for email delivery | USA | |
| Not Just Tickets Ltd (Plain) | Customer support platform with bidirectional customer and thread data sync | United Kingdom | |
| OpenAI AI | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Turbopuffer | An infrastructure service that supports indexing and searching across Clerk user data efficiently. | USA | |
| Twilio | Twilio - SMS / Voice Sendgrid - email delivery | United States (primary), with global edge network processing via AWS/Equinix POPs | |
| Vercel | Webpage deployment | US |
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.
4 third parties by category: Advertising 3Analytics 1
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
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
90 days agotoday
- 9 incidents in 90 days
- 1 major or critical
- 4 h 34 min typical time to resolve
- 36 min longest major
| Began | Incident | Impact | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elevated error rates for authentication requests | minor | — | |
| SMS Delivery Issues | major | 36 min | |
| Issues with Documentation "Ask AI" | minor | 45 h 47 min | |
| Dashboard increased latency | minor | 14 h 18 min | |
| Development instances only - Apple rejecting emails | minor | 21 days | |
| Delays in webhook delivery | minor | 1 h 7 min | |
| Delayed email delivery to Microsoft (Outlook / Microsoft 365) recipients | minor | 4 h 34 min | |
| GCP incident in us-central1-b | minor | 3 h 25 min |
Incidents per month
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.
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
- Removed subprocessor: Astrodon Inc. (Loops) evidence: subprocessor: Astrodon Inc. (Loops) list before and after: subprocessor: Astrodon Inc. (Loops)
- Removed subprocessor: Segment evidence: subprocessor: Segment list before and after: subprocessor: Segment