Is Clerk down right now?
No, it’s up.
Clerk appears to be up and running normally.
checked responded in 137msHTTP 200
Over the last 7 days, Clerk has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~154 ms. According to Clerk's official status page, the most recent outage began 2026-08-04 23:03 UTC and lasted 36m (severity: degraded). It was reported as "Increased API latency and errors".
Clerk provides authentication and user management for web applications, with prebuilt sign-in components and session handling. Because it sits in front of the application, an incident blocks new sign-ins and sign-ups while users holding a valid session often continue without noticing.