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Synq and Clerk.
Clerk sells complete user management: drop-in UI components for sign-in, profiles, organizations and billing, with session management.
Checked against Clerk’s own pages on 4 October 2026. Sources are linked below each claim.
Clerk
What Clerk says it does
- Clerk describes drop-in UI components for authentication, profile management, organization management and billing, and lists session management among its features. Source: clerk.com
- Clerk’s Hobby plan is free up to 50,000 monthly retained users per app, counting a user only if they come back at least 24 hours after signing up. Pro is $25 a month, with $0.02 for each retained user over 50,000. Source: Clerk pricing
- Clerk’s docs list Web3 sign-in with Base, MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet and OKX Wallet. Source: Clerk docs: sign-up and sign-in options
Synq
Where Synq differs
- Synq signs people in with any Solana wallet that follows the Wallet Standard, with Sign In With Solana.
- Every brand is a standard OpenID Connect issuer, so any OpenID Connect library works, not only Synq’s SDKs.
- Token gates let only holders of a Solana token sign in.
Choose Clerk if
You want prebuilt components in your web app today, and your users’ wallets are on Ethereum or Base.
Choose Synq if
Your users are on Solana, or your apps need a standard issuer rather than a framework SDK.
Weighing Synq for your product?
Tell us what you use today and what you need, and we will tell you honestly whether Synq fits. Synq is pre-launch.