Happy Changelog Friday, the team has been working hard on improving Clerk and bringing new features and improving our SDKs.

This has been a passion project of mine, I have spent the last 3 weeks creating our new documentation which launched in to a beta today for Next.js only. The docs have some features that I think are important to Clerk and to you as a developer:

The docs are completely open source so you can see what we used to build them. If you were wondering I ended up on 

Anyone can contribute we are now using MDX.

Feedback is so important to me and the team, so feel free to click the feedback button and give your honest feedback.

If you are ready to check them out head over to 

Appearance and Localization Support for Next.js App Router

When we introduced the beta support for Next.js App Router we decided to leave out the appearance prop and localization while we worked on core stability. 

You can now use our appearance prop to style our components to your brand and localize based upon your user base. Here is an example of using our prebuilt dark theme

 which supports 13.2.0 changes that we introduced, if you upgrade to the latest Next.js make sure you update your Clerk package as well!

We added Dashboard search for your organizations allowing you to find and manage them quicker and easier. 

 package and making sure that hydration doesn't become an issue with React 18.2. Please make sure you are on the latest to see the improvement with hydration. 


Community contribution: German and Spanish localization

A huge shoutout to two of our community members for taking the time to localize our components to German and Spanish. 

Thanks to 

Changelog Feb 24, 2023

We’re thrilled to introduce a simplified pricing structure that’s not only easier to understand, but also significantly cheaper for most applications currently using Clerk. 

Every application gets 10,000 free monthly active users (MAUs)!

Brand new users will also now receive their 

 which means their activity is not counted until 24 hours after signing up. This ensures you are not charged for users who sign up, but churn within their first day and do not return.

Since Clerk’s inception, our primary goal has been to lower the barrier to building production-grade applications. Every application deserves secure and seamless user management that takes minutes to setup, not days — freeing you to focus on what’s important: 

Our new simplified pricing structure consists of “Free”, “Pro” and “Enterprise” plans. Where each plan includes your first 10,000 MAUs free and you will never pay for an inactive user. Additional features can be added to the Pro plan via “Pro add-ons” tailor made for specific use cases.

Our free plan remains generous, with no features removed. You still get beautifully designed, performant, and customizable sign-in pages on the domain of your choosing. However, we’ve now doubled the included number of MAUs! Get started, and iterate longer — completely for free!

Visit the pricing page to see all features in the Free plan

Going Pro – A complete feature set for most use cases

The new Pro plan includes the first 10,000 MAUs, and starts at $25/mo. Additional MAUs are only $0.02 each. This is a dramatic simplification, and includes 10X more MAUs compared to the previous Hobby plan. The Pro plan also now includes the ability to set a “Custom Session Duration,” which has been a key sticking point in the past.

Visit the pricing page to see all features in the Pro plan

Pro Add-Ons – Customize to fit your needs

While the Pro plan is designed for the majority of applications, add-ons are tailored to specific business needs and are priced according to their added value. Today we’re launching with 3 Pro add-ons that will become more feature-rich over time:

 — includes domain restrictions, and custom roles and permissions 

Visit the pricing page to see all features in each Pro add-on

We know pricing changes lead to uncertainty and we’re committed to minimizing them. Our end-goal here is to continue to drop the price of authentication as we add value in adjacent areas. Building applications should be getting easier and cheaper over time, and this pricing change is just one step in the right direction. Clerk will always be committed to the developer community, and hopefully this pricing overhaul reflects that.

Updated Pricing: 10,000 MAUs Free, and a new “Pro Plan”

Clerk provides a fully pre-built User Profile component that offers user a self-service portal for user functionality like managing emails, OAuth connections, signed in devices, etc. But if you want to provide additional user-specific functionality, instead of building a separate UI, you can build that interface directly into Clerk’s User Profile!

We can create a new page simply like this

We can use this page for things like subscription plans

We can access state and context in these components as expected

 has to be rendered in a client component. However, we can use a server component to render the page inside through render props (lifting content up).

Custom Pages can also be added to the Organization Profile in the same way.

Custom pages allows you to extend the already powerful User and Organization Profile components with additional features specific to your use case. Combined with the 

, this level of customization eliminates the effort spent into building entirely custom UIs for user and org management to support extra functionality.

Clerk’s components work out of the box, handle every authentication and user management workflow, and are highly customizable and extendable. Learn more about Clerk’s 

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Changelog Feb 24, 2023

Introducing our new documentation

Appearance and Localization Support for Next.js App Router

Support for Next.js 13.2.0

Dashboard Search for Organizations

Hydration Improvements for @clerk/remix

Community contribution: German and Spanish localization

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Appearance and Localization Support for Next.js App Router

Support for Next.js 13.2.0

Dashboard Search for Organizations

Hydration Improvements for @clerk/remix

Community contribution: German and Spanish localization

Start now,no strings attached

Pricing built for.css-qa8l2m{color:var(--chakra-colors-primary-500);}businesses of all sizes.

Newsletter!

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no strings attached

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businesses of all sizes.