Clerk vs Pushary
Clerk and Pushary are both security & identity tools. Clerk is aimed at developers, while Pushary is aimed at developers and small businesses. Pushary costs less, from $9.99/mo versus $25/mo for Clerk. Only Clerk has a free plan.
Drop-in authentication and user management
Approve coding agent requests from your phone or Mac, with a record
| Pricing | Freemium · $25 | Paid · $10 |
| Starting price | $25/mo | $9.99/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Free trial | — | 3 days |
| Built for | Developers | Developers, Small businesses, Freelancers |
| Platforms | web | web, macos, windows, linux, ios, android |
| Country | US · 2019 | EE |
| Rating | — | — |
Choose Clerk if
React and Next.js teams who want production auth with great UX immediately.
- Beautiful components save weeks of work
- Generous free tier
- Organizations and B2B features built in
Look elsewhere if: Teams requiring full ownership of auth data (Better Auth, Keycloak) or non-JS stacks.
Choose Pushary if
Developers and small engineering teams that let coding agents run unattended but want a human sign-off on risky steps.
- Works across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents
- One-command setup with a QR code pairing for the phone
- No automatic overage charges on any plan
Look elsewhere if: Teams that need SSO, formal certifications or full enterprise compliance today (PagerDuty for paging, or native agent permission settings).
Clerk vs Pushary pricing
Clerk
- Hobby$050,000 monthly retained users per app, 3 dashboard seats
- Pro$25/mo$20/mo billed annually; 50k MRUs, then from $0.02/MRU
- Business$300/mo$250/mo billed annually; 10 dashboard seats
- EnterpriseCustomAnnual billing; 99.99% uptime SLA, volume discounts
Pushary
- Agent$9.99/mo5K notifications/mo, phone and Mac approvals, 30-day history
- Agent Pro$19.99/moUnlimited notifications, budgets, Policy Autopilot, 90 days
- Team$59/mo5 people, $12 per extra person; shared audit trail, 365 days
- Partner Launch$99/moFor agent vendors: 5K end users, 25K approval requests/mo
- Partner Growth$299/mo25K users, 100K requests/mo, 10 people, 365-day history
Clerk · Key features
- Prebuilt UI components for auth and user profile
- Email, password, passkeys, OTP and 20+ social providers
- Organizations, roles and permissions (B2B)
- MFA, bot protection and session management
- Clerk Billing for subscriptions and feature gating
- SDKs for Next.js, React, Remix, Expo, Astro and more
Cons
- User data lives with a third party
- Per-user (MRU) cost grows with scale
- Enhanced features (SAML, MFA) cost extra
Pushary · Key features
- Agent permission prompts delivered to iPhone, Android or the Mac notch
- Yes/no, multiple-choice and free-text questions from agents
- Permission rules that auto-approve safe steps and escalate risky ones
- Per-person routing so each agent asks the developer who started it
- Routing rules by tool pattern and repository, such as git push to a lead
- Shared team audit trail with CSV and JSON export
Cons
- No free plan and only a 3-day trial
- Answers typed at the agent's own prompt are not recorded
- Slack and web-link answers are not tied to a name
Clerk vs Pushary: FAQ
Which is cheaper, Clerk or Pushary?
Pushary starts at $9.99/mo and Clerk at $25/mo. Both prices are checked on the vendors' own pricing pages.
Do Clerk and Pushary have a free plan?
Clerk has a free plan. Pushary has no free plan, a 3-day free trial.
Which is better for small businesses, Clerk or Pushary?
Pushary lists small businesses as a core audience, while Clerk is aimed more at developers.