Outseta vs. Clerk.dev
Outseta is more complete alternative to Clerk.dev for SaaS authentication, payments, and user accounts
Outseta is an alternative to Clerk.dev for anyone that's looking for authentication and user account features for their SaaS products.
More powerful, multi-tenant user accounts
Outseta's offers individual or multi-tenant user accounts—from which all of Outseta's tools are accessible.
- Easily manage user data on fully customizable account records.
- Create, change, or make subscription changes—without logging into Stripe.
- View a full activity feed of all communications, user activity, payments, and more.
And importantly—we don't charge you $1/month per organization like Clerk does.
Outseta also includes the growth tools you'll inevitably need
In addition to offering authentication and user accounts, your Outseta subscription also includes all of the tools that SaaS founders inevitably need that act as the growth engine of your business. This includes:
- Tightly integrate Stripe Payments
- A flexible CRM
- Transactional, marketing, and product lifecycle emails
- Help desk (support tickets, knowledge base, and live chat tools)
- User engagement tracking
Outseta will save you countless hours on integrations and give you the tools you need to grow customer lifetime value.
Payments and authentication from the get-go
While Clerk only recently launched subscriptions, a tight integration of authentication and payments has been the core of Outseta's product since 2017.
While Clerk generally offers more robust authentication tools, Outseta is designed to help you launch your quickly and scale with the tools you need rather than offering bells and whistles that you don't.
Outseta offers user impersonation features—for free
Clerk charges $100 per month for user impersonation features—likely more than the cost of your entire Outseta subscription. Outseta offers user impersonation features to our customers for free.
Outseta includes OpenID Connect SSO—for free
Clerk charges an additional $100 per month for their SSO solutions—Outseta offers OpenID Connect SSO to our customers for free.
Learn more about Outseta SSO with OpenID Connect
Bootstrapped, independent, and profitable
While Clerk is a heavily ventured funded Silicon Valley start-up, Outseta is a bootstrapped, independent, and profitable company.
We've been around since 2016 and have built successful, mission critical business applications before. We control our own destiny, answer only to our customers and don't have growth mandates for which our customers will ultimately pay the bill.
We're built differently by design
Expert customer support—from humans and career developers
At Outseta we pride ourselves on our customer support. If you need help with your implementation, the people answering your questions will be software engineers with 20+ years or experience. Try us.
