Clerk vs JumpCloud Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Hobby
- Up to 3 dashboard seats
- Unlimited applications
- 50,000 MRU limit per app
- Up to 5 user impersonations
- APIs and prebuilt UIs for sign-up, sign-in, and user profile
- Custom domain
- Fixed, 7 day session lifetime
- Application Logs
- Machine Authentication
Pro
- Up to 3 dashboard seats
- 50,000 MRU included per app
- 1 Enterprise connection included
- Remove Clerk branding
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Satellite domains
- Custom session lifetime
- Application Logs
- SMS Authentication available
- Machine Authentication
Business
- 10 dashboard seats included
- SOC2 Report
- Enhanced dashboard roles
- Priority support
- Application Logs
Enterprise
- Annual committed use discounts
- 99.99% Uptime SLA
- Enterprise SSO for workspace
- Premium support SLA + dedicated slack channel
- Application Logs
- Log sink destinations
- HIPAA compliance available with BAA
- Onboarding & migration support
- Custom security questionnaires
Platform Essentials
- Agentic IAM Lifecycle Management
- Cloud Directory
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- User Lifecycle Management
- Password Management
- Directory Insights
- Passwordless Authentication (JumpCloud Go™)
- MDM/Device Management
- System Insights™
- Patch Management
- Software Management
- Remote Access™
- Device Monitoring & Alerting
- External Identity Federation
Platform
- Agentic IAM Lifecycle Management
- Cloud Directory
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- MDM/Device Management
- System Insights™
- Patch Management
- Software Management
- Remote Access™
- Device Monitoring & Alerting
- External Identity Federation
- Identity Management for Devices
Platform Prime
- Agentic IAM Lifecycle Management
- Cloud Directory
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- User Lifecycle Management
- Password Management
- Directory Insights
- Passwordless Authentication (JumpCloud Go™)
- Cloud LDAP
- Cloud RADIUS
- Conditional Access / Zero Trust
- Access Requests
- MDM/Device Management
- System Insights™
- Patch Management
- Software Management
- Remote Access™
- Device Monitoring & Alerting
- External Identity Federation
- Identity Management for Devices
- Asset Management
- SaaS Discovery
- SaaS License Management
- SaaS Access Control
- SaaS Insights
- Premium JumpCloud Support
Clerk vs JumpCloud FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- One or both use custom pricing, so it depends on your specific needs.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Clerk has a free plan. JumpCloud doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Clerk uses hybrid pricing, while JumpCloud goes with custom. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Clerk: Clerk sits mid-to-premium in the auth-as-a-service space — more expensive than rolling your own with Auth0's free tier or using Supabase Auth, but they're betting on developer experience and B2B feature depth to justify it. They're clearly targeting VC-backed startups, hence the Stripe Atlas and YC discount pipeline. JumpCloud: À la carte SSO at $11/user/mo puts them in direct competition with Okta and Azure AD, but JumpCloud's pitch is consolidation — replace multiple point solutions with one platform. They're positioning as the scrappy alternative to Microsoft's identity stack for mid-market IT teams who don't want to pay enterprise prices or manage that complexity.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Clerk and JumpCloud and let you know when something moves.