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Clerk vs Supabase for Vercel
Where do they differ?
- Clerk does not support per-preview environments on Vercel. Supabase supports per-preview environments on Vercel.
- Cheapest monthly plan: Clerk free, Supabase free, excluding tax.
- Setup: Clerk takes about Not reported; Supabase takes about Not reported.
Side by side
| Clerk | Supabase | |
|---|---|---|
| Provisioning from Vercel | Yes | Yes |
| Install from the Vercel CLI | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic environment variables | Yes | Yes |
| Billing through Vercel | Yes | Yes |
| Single sign-on from Vercel | Yes | Yes |
| Per-preview environments | No | Yes |
| Price from (USD) | Free | Free |
| Regions | GLOBAL | GLOBAL |
| Minimum Vercel plan | any | any |
| Setup | Not reported | Not reported |
| Known limitations | Existing Clerk applications cannot be connected to, or moved under, the Vercel Marketplace integration (moderate) Additional Clerk applications must be created from the Vercel dashboard, not the Clerk Dashboard (minor) Production domains for Vercel-managed applications can only be changed in the integration settings in Vercel (minor) Vercel-managed applications and organisations can only be deleted from Vercel, by removing the resource or uninstalling the integration (minor) Billing and plan changes are made in the Vercel dashboard (minor) | Supabase projects for a Vercel Marketplace organisation can only be created from the Vercel dashboard (moderate) Custom domains are not supported for Marketplace projects, and the Vercel environment variables always use the base Supabase URL (moderate) Owners cannot be added in the Supabase dashboard; the owner role is granted in Vercel (minor) Invoices and payments are handled in the Vercel dashboard, not in Supabase (minor) The Supabase organisation is removed only after all its projects are deleted and the integration is uninstalled (minor) Free plan projects pause after 1 week of inactivity (minor) |
| Vendor status | Listed | Listed |
| Facts verified | 13 Nov 2026 | 13 Nov 2026 |
No winner is declared: which is better depends on what you need. Every fact links to its sources on each app's page.