Can I automate Clerk budget alerts with this skill?

Yes, the skill includes monitoring scripts that use the Clerk API to estimate usage and send alerts when you approach your tier limits.

How does this skill help reduce Clerk costs?

It provides specific code patterns for deferred authentication and guest modes, ensuring you only trigger MAU billing for users who truly need authenticated features.

What counts as a Monthly Active User (MAU) in Clerk?

A Monthly Active User is any user who signs in or has an active session during the billing month. Multiple sign-ins by the same user only count as one MAU.

How do session lifetimes affect my Clerk bill?

Longer session lifetimes can reduce the frequency of re-authentications, though the skill primarily focuses on optimizing when a session is first created to manage MAU counts.

Clerk Cost Tuning

Name: Clerk Cost Tuning
Author: jeremylongshore

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API Development

Optimizes authentication costs and provides strategies for managing Clerk's pricing model efficiently.

About

The Clerk Cost Tuning skill empowers developers to manage and reduce authentication expenses by implementing strategic architectural patterns. It provides clear insights into the Clerk pricing model, Monthly Active User (MAU) calculations, and practical code implementations for session optimization, guest user handling, and deferred authentication. Whether you're scaling a startup or managing an enterprise application, this skill helps you predict costs, implement usage monitoring, and ensure your authentication layer remains budget-friendly without sacrificing user experience.

Key Features

Implementation strategies for guest modes and deferred authentication
Code patterns for session management and lifetime optimization
Detailed Clerk pricing breakdown and MAU calculation guidance
API call batching and caching techniques to minimize overhead
Automated cost monitoring and budget alerting scripts
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Use Cases

Reducing monthly billing by optimizing MAU counts in high-traffic applications
Implementing 'auth-later' patterns to engage users before triggering billing events
Planning project budgets by estimating costs across different Clerk pricing tiers

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills clerk-cost-tuning

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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