Clerk vs. Microsoft Entra ID

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Clerk
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Poor user management can stand between users and products. From forgotten passwords and failed account de-duplication, to broken and out-of-sync vendor integrations — there's a lot that can go wrong. Clerk is a software solution that aims to solve user management.
$0
Microsoft Entra ID
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.
$6
per user/per month
Pricing
ClerkMicrosoft Entra ID
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Premium P1
$6.00
per user/per month
Premium P2
$9.00
per user/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ClerkMicrosoft Entra ID
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
ClerkMicrosoft Entra ID
Features
ClerkMicrosoft Entra ID
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
Clerk
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Ratings
Microsoft Entra ID
8.7
99 Ratings
7% above category average
ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings8.897 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings8.997 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.298 Ratings
Password Management00 Ratings8.694 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.693 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.273 Ratings
ID Risk Management00 Ratings8.476 Ratings
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User Ratings
ClerkMicrosoft Entra ID
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(160 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(15 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(28 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(21 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ClerkMicrosoft Entra ID
Likelihood to Recommend
Clerk
Best suited for - Improving the conversions and users funnel, building actionable insights for user journey, deciding the performance of features, building personalised recommendations on search results and emails. Less appropriate for - Creating automated campaigns for user targeting, triggering and creating communication flows for user engagement and product journey
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Microsoft
Definitely well suited for enterprise identity management. Just makes sense to use that tool because it's been the standard for so many years. Businesses that may not be ready for an enterprise level product might not be for them just due to cost. So there might be some more cost efficient and effective ways to perform the same tasks.
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Pros
Clerk
  • Easy to integrate - perfect solution for search and recommendations.
  • Allow website recommendations, website search and email recommendations, that help day after day obtain more data and use it to view the best product for every single customer.
  • Improving conversion rate and the quality of the customer journey on the eCommerce.
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Microsoft
  • It addresses the issue of identity management very well with respect to putting in that multi authentication.
  • It can also support with respect to we can push these policies into another product that is not Microsoft, but it needs that SSO so we can have one account going into multi different accounts. I think that's the biggest pros and the easy use of Microsoft 365 also is one of those pros also in terms of administration.
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Cons
Clerk
  • A function to export dashboard reports will help ease building analytics.
  • It's a highly technical tool. One has to have very good technical knowledge to set it up.
  • Build more payment options other than the credit card.
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Microsoft
  • Well, I'm an active ad admin, so there's a lot of features in active directory that Entra ID seems to be just adding now. We're kind of figuring out that the policies are different than Entra ID that they were in active directory and we're finding other products to do that, like Azure policy. Some things I'm used to seeing in identity products or like active directory aren't in Entra iID, but are doing good job of managing stuff that it does so far.
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Likelihood to Renew
Clerk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
MSFT Entra ID has been essential for managing our geographically dispersed team. We're confident that it will scale with us as grow, and we'll be able to take advantage of additional security and ID management features as they become necessary. Being able to centrally manage our user access from anywhere with a small support team is such a relief.
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Usability
Clerk
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Microsoft
Very easily usable. It could be easier to use. Implementation was kind of tricky. We do run a hybrid environment, so we're syncing a local active directory instance with Entra ID, so that could be a little tricky. But outside of that, if you're not running a hybrid deployment or a version of Entra ID usually, it's pretty straightforward.
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Reliability and Availability
Clerk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
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Performance
Clerk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
I could probably rate this a 10 but I'm always conservative on giving out perfect scored bt performance has not been a problem for us using Entra ID.
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Support Rating
Clerk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
I have not needed to engage support for anything at this time. I have been able to find the answers either online or in a knowledgebase. I tried to skip the question but it would not let me, so I rated a 9 based on other interactions with Microsoft support I have had
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Online Training
Clerk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Most training was internally produced
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Implementation Rating
Clerk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Make sure you use a good partner. Our implementation was a bit longer and more problematic than we expected. Our partner got it done, but, in my opinion, some of their inexperience and staffing issues were evident.
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Alternatives Considered
Clerk
The cost of the contract is much better than the competitors. Customised options and packages to select from. Others weren't providing more options basis the usage and master user roles requirements. Provided free demo to help build confidence and train the team for using Clerk tool. Clerk customer solutions team is easily reachable and helps promptly resolve any issues.
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Microsoft
For us, it was a natural evolution of our use of active directory. As we went from on-premises to the cloud, this was an easy extension of our authentication infrastructure. We looked at other products from Oracle, so Oracle ID, Oracle Identity Management. We looked at pink credit for single sign-on. It was just everything was built into Entra ID. Both internal use cases and external ones.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Clerk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
The features are getting addresses per requirements and their value for Money. The proposed ROI and actual ROI build confidence.
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Scalability
Clerk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
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Professional Services
Clerk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Microsoft Professional Services' technical knowledge is appreciable as consultants design the solution as per customer requirements. Mapping of features per user specifications and assisting Customer IT engineers to implement so they can manage and administer the services.
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Return on Investment
Clerk
  • Improved user conversion by 20%
  • Increased revenues by 15%
  • Reduced reliance of operations for data tracking and analysis
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Microsoft
  • I think it's had positive. It's enabled us to make authentication easier and more streamlined across the organization from frontline workers to back office workers.
  • It's allowed us to really adopt authentication policies and methods that suit that user and their work environment.
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ScreenShots

Clerk Screenshots

Screenshot of Authentication options for usersScreenshot of Session management made easyScreenshot of User security, all in one place