Getting started with Clerk Billing

In this episode of Stripe Developer Office Hours, Clerk CTO and co-founder Braden Sidoti shares how you can build a complete billing experience—without webhooks, custom UIs, or Stripe session management. Instead of abstracting Stripe Billing, Clerk connects directly to your Stripe account: Stripe handles payments, and Clerk takes care of the user interface, entitlement logic, and session-aware billing flows.

You'll learn how to set up subscriptions, usage-based pricing, and org-level billing using Clerk's prebuilt components and APIs. Braden also walks through how Clerk supports role-based access, secure upgrades, and customer self-service, all tightly integrated with your existing auth layer.

The conversation also touches on why Clerk approaches infrastructure this way, how to go from prototype to production without glue code, and how tying billing to identity can simplify everything from user onboarding to plan upgrades. If you're looking to ship payments faster and with less complexity, this is a blueprint worth exploring.

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Clerk Billing works in every country supported by Stripe⁠ and syncs directly with your existing Clerk application.