Live status & reliability report
Clerk status, outages & reliability
Clerk is a hosted authentication and user management service with prebuilt sign-in components for web and mobile apps.
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · score recalculated
Over the last 90 days Clerk had 98.98% effective uptime across 9 status page incidents (1 partial or major outage), resolving them in 16h 6m on average.
Is Clerk down right now?
No, Clerk is up and running.
- Clerk's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
- All 3 Clerk pages we check are responding. Checked .
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90-day uptime
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Key facts about Clerk's reliability
- Since May 14, 2026, the earliest date its published history covers, Clerk published 25 incidents on its status page, 4 of them partial or major outages.
- Its longest outage on record in that time was “Elevated errors while configuring domains” on Jul 12, 2026, which lasted 3h 32m.
- The part of Clerk most often affected was Authentication & User (4 of 25 incidents).
- Incidents most often began on a Thursday (9 of 25, UTC).
- Clerk's 90-day uptime of 98.98% is above the average for authentication providers (98.19%).
- It resolves incidents more slowly than the typical authentication provider: 16h 6m on average, against a median of 4h 31m.
Score breakdown
Incidents per month
- Major outage
- Partial outage
- Degraded
- Informational
Response time
Daily average response time of Clerk's public pages, measured by our probes.
Score trend
Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).
Clerk incident history (last 90 days)
- Partial outageOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 36m
Affected: Authentication & User
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 1d 21h
Issues with Documentation "Ask AI"
Affected: Ask AI
- Degraded performanceOct 1, 2026 · resolved in 14h 46m
Affected: Dashboard analytics, Dashboard, Dashboard search
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 21d 2h
Development instances only - Apple rejecting emails
Affected: Email delivery
- MaintenanceSep 24, 2026 · ongoing
Scheduled Database Maintenance
Affected: SMS delivery, Dashboard, Platform API, Webhooks, Multi-tenant authentication, Authentication & User +8 more
- Degraded performanceSep 16, 2026 · resolved in 1h 8m
Affected: Webhooks
- MaintenanceSep 4, 2026 · ongoing
Scheduled database maintenance — brief write interruption
Affected: Dashboard, Machine authentication, Hosted UIs (Account Portal), Webhooks, Application "Go live", Dashboard analytics +8 more
- Degraded performanceSep 4, 2026 · resolved in 4h 34m
Delayed email delivery to Microsoft (Outlook / Microsoft 365) recipients
Affected: Email delivery
- Degraded performanceSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 3h 26m
Affected: Dashboard analytics, Authentication & User
- Degraded performanceAug 31, 2026 · resolved in 1h 58m
Affected: Authentication & User, Hosted UIs (Account Portal), Webhooks, Email delivery, Dashboard analytics, SMS delivery +5 more
- Degraded performanceAug 4, 2026 · resolved in 37m
Increased API latency and errors
Affected: Authentication & User
Source: Clerk status page · last checked · Subscribe via RSS
Our independent monitoring
We check these public Clerk pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.
| Page | Last check | Uptime (30d) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage | Up | 100% | 838 ms |
| Dashboard sign-in | Up | 100% | 450 ms |
| Backend API | Up | 100% | 236 ms |
How Clerk compares
Clerk status FAQ
Is Clerk down right now?
No, Clerk is up and running. Clerk's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the Clerk pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.
How reliable is Clerk?
Clerk has a reliability score of 53.3 out of 100, ranking #6 of 9 authentication providers. Over the last 90 days it had 98.98% effective uptime.
How often does Clerk have outages?
Clerk published 9 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (1 partial or major outage) and 25 in the past 12 months.
How long do Clerk outages last?
Clerk resolves incidents in 16h 6m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 3h 32m, on Jul 12, 2026.
Does Clerk have a status page?
Yes. Clerk's official status page is status.clerk.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.