Set up your Clerk account

You will learn how to

Create a Clerk account
Create a new Clerk project

Estimated time 1 cup of coffee

Migrating from another platform?

You might want to check out one of our migration guides to help you move your data to Clerk.

Log into Clerk

Create a Clerk account or log into your Clerk dasbhoard.

Create a Clerk application

If you've just created an account for the first time, you'll be taken directly to our interactive authentication setup form.

An interactive builder to make your "" component truly yours, which lets you select your auth providers.

Otherwise, you'll be redirected to your Clerk dashboard.

To create a new app, press the Add application card to be taken to the interactive authentication setup form.

An "Add application" card on your dashboard

Select auth providers

Clerk provides over 20 authentication providers that you can use in your Clerk apps. Select the ones that matter to your users and press Create application.

Once the application is created in the Clerk dashboard, you will be redirected to the API Keys page, which will show you your application's API keys.

A list of supported frameworks with instructions on how to add API keys underneath.

Create a new codebase

The API keys listed in the Clerk dashboard are just the first step to integrating Clerk into your apps. To get the most out of Clerk, check out our "Quickstart" guides: