Free trials are a great way to get your users to their "a-ha!" moment and increase conversions, and Clerk Billing makes them easy to setup and use.
Straightforward Configuration
Enable free trials for any plan in the Clerk Dashboard and choose the duration of the trial. Or you can roll out the same free trials configuration for many plans at once.
Existing users will see no change to their subscriptions, but any new signups will get your configured free trial before their card is charged. Change your configuration at any time, and it will take effect for any new signups after that point.
Easy to Manage
You can cancel your users' free trials at any point from the Clerk Dashboard, or opt to have their subscription end when the free trial ends. You can also extend the free trial of any user at any time during their trial.
Best Practices Built-In
Free trials automatically use industry best practices without any configuration. Users will be required to enter a credit card before starting their trial, mitigating abuse and ensuring when their trial ends they transition smoothly to a paid subscription. And users that have already paid you or already had a free trial are ineligible to start a new one.
Get Started Today
Ready to increase your conversions? Get started with free trials:
We're working to make Clerk Billing the best way to charge (and not charge) your users. Have any questions or suggestions? Reach out through our feedback portal or join the discussion in our Discord community.
Enable users to sign-in to your application using their Base accounts, Coinbase's Layer 2 blockchain
We’re excited to announce that Clerk has integrated Base Account. Base is an on-chain stack incubated by Coinbase that makes building, earning, and owning simple and accessible. Now, anyone can "Sign-in with Base" and their account details will follow them into Clerk.
Smart wallet technology makes sign-in fast. By combining Base’s open-internet foundation with Clerk’s developer-first authentication, we make it simple for builders and users to connect in one secure and seamless flow.
B2B applications can now enforce organization membership much more easily
Starting today for new applications, when you enable our Organizations featureset, your users will be required to create or join an organization. Previously, we defaulted to allowing a "Personal Account" which caused many of you building B2B applications to add workarounds to force organization membership. We had it backwards.
And if you're using Clerk components, this just works. Users are immediately prompted upon sign-up or sign-in.
Opt-in to Personal Accounts
If you'd still like Personal Accounts to exist alongside Organizations in for your application, thats still possible. Simply toggle "Enable Personal Account" at the moment you enable organization or in the Organization settings in the Clerk Dashboard.
Migration considerations
Due to the way this could change some of the way your application handles sessions, this functionality is only available for newly created applications. If you're running an existing application and want to adopt the new default, please contact our support team to discuss a migration strategy.
We recently shipped an updated growth chart in the Clerk Dashboard, giving better insight into your application’s growth—including detailed statuses like new, reactivated, retained, and even churned users.
Our latest upgrade goes a step further and now shows you exactly which users are part of those cohorts, enabling even more visibility into your application's growth and performance over time.
Note: The table of recent sign-ups has been replaced with user cohorts, providing a clearer and more detailed view of your users' activity.
Clerk is determined to become the best place for founders and builders to observe and understand their users. Head to the Overview section of the Clerk Dashboard to see it in action, and stay tuned for more.
