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Qeetid vs. Clerk
Clerk is the modern developer-friendly auth-as-a-service for React / Next.js apps. If you live in Vercel and want the polished React components, it's terrific. Qeetid is the choice when you also need self-hosting, multi-tenant SaaS shape, or to own your database.
Qeetid
- License
- MIT (open source)
- Self-host
- First-class
- Stack
- Go + Postgres
- Multi-tenant
- Built-in
- Frameworks
- React, Next, Node, Go
Clerk
- License
- Proprietary SaaS
- Self-host
- Not available
- Stack
- Closed (managed)
- Multi-tenant
- Organizations add-on
- Frameworks
- React-first
The DX you like from Clerk. The deployment story your platform team needs.
Drop-in `<SignIn />` / `<SignedIn />` React primitives + hosted UI, plus a single Go binary you can ship anywhere — including a customer's VPC.
- Multi-tenant by design — tenants, members, invitations are first-class.
- Self-host on Postgres. No proprietary database.
- Open-source. Audit our code, fork if you need.
| Capability | Qeetid | Clerk |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | ||
Email + password | ||
Passkeys / WebAuthn | ||
Magic links | ||
Social login (Google, Apple, GitHub, …) | ||
MFA (TOTP, SMS, email, recovery codes) | ||
| Frontend | ||
Drop-in React `<SignIn />` components | Roadmap (sdk-react) | |
Hosted, brandable auth pages | Roadmap v1.1 | |
Headless primitives (useSession, useUser, …) | Roadmap (sdk-react) | |
Native admin dashboard | ||
| B2B / Tenant model | ||
Multi-tenant by default | Organizations add-on | |
Invitations + role assignment | ||
SAML / OIDC federation | Paid tier | |
SCIM provisioning | Paid tier | |
| Deployment | ||
Self-host (single binary + Postgres) | ||
Bring-your-own database | ||
EU / US data residency | ||
Air-gapped / on-prem | ||
| Pricing | ||
Free tier MAU cap | 5,000 | 10,000 |
Per-MAU pricing | $0.02 / MAU (Pro) | $0.02 / MAU after free |
B2B SSO included Clerk SSO is reserved for higher tiers. | ||
Audit log retention | 7 days / S3 export | Paid |
| Compliance | ||
SOC 2 Type II | Roadmap v1.0 | |
GDPR / DPA | ||
Self-hosted compliance boundary | ||
Comparison is based on publicly-available product information at the time of writing. We do our best to be accurate — if anything below is wrong, please let us know and we'll correct it.
Keep the developer experience. Own the infrastructure.
Pull our Docker image, point it at Postgres, and you're running production-grade identity in one command.