
Clerk.io
Clerk.io combines Search, Recommendations, Chat, Audience, and Email tools for ecommerce businesses.
What Clerk.io is
Clerk.io combines Search, Recommendations, Chat, Audience, and Email tools for ecommerce businesses. Search handles typos and vague queries, with sales-based ranking, facets, query suggestions, and analytics. Recommendations use browsing behavior, past purchases, and real-time intent to personalize product suggestions, while Clerk Chat offers product-aware help to shoppers. Audience builds purchase-intent segments for campaign activation, and Email personalizes product campaigns using shopper behavior, purchase history, and live catalog data. The platform lists more than 15 pre-built ecommerce integrations, including Shopify, Magento, PrestaShop, WooCommerce, Shopware, BigCommerce, and Lightspeed; custom stores can use its open API. The pricing page does not show a fixed usable USD price: pricing varies by usage, contract period, and chosen products. If average usage exceeds a tier limit over three months, the company may move the customer to another tier or charge for extra usage. The Trust Center describes encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, monitoring, and regular penetration testing; it also lists several compliance frameworks and says the company is not yet certified by a third-party auditor.
Good
- Combines search, recommendations, chat, audience, and email tools.
- Search handles typos and vague queries.
- More than 15 pre-built ecommerce integrations are listed.
- Custom stores can connect through an open API.
- Pricing lets customers combine products.
Watch out
- No free plan is listed.
- Pricing is available on request, not as a fixed price.
- Usage above a tier may trigger an upgrade or extra charge.
- Company says it lacks third-party auditor certification.
Who it suits
Clerk.io is aimed at independent and mid-market ecommerce businesses seeking search, product recommendations, shopper segmentation, chat, or personalized email tools. It also offers customized B2B setups and enterprise packages.
Verdict
Clerk.io brings several ecommerce discovery and marketing tools together, with integrations for named storefronts and marketing services. Its usage-based pricing and potential tier adjustments make it important to understand expected usage before choosing a setup.
The facts
Each one read from Clerk.io's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- Audience segments use browsing behavior, purchases, search activity, and real-time intent for email and ad campaigns.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Audience and Email
- Audience creates purchase-intent segments for campaign activation, while Email sends personalized product emails based on customer interests and behavior.checked 4 Oct 2026
- B2B and enterprise
- Clerk.io offers customized B2B setups with dedicated support and enterprise packages with custom SLAs and quotes.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Chat
- AI Chat supports conversational product discovery and can answer questions about product details, stock availability, delivery, and sizing using live store data.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- The Trust Center lists GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2 Type II, and EU AI Act compliance, and says Clerk.io is not yet certified by a third-party auditor.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Email personalizes campaigns using shopper behavior, product interactions, purchase history, and live catalog data.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Email integrations
- Listed email integrations include Mailchimp, Klaviyo, MailUp, Brevo, Drip, Apsis, and MailerLite.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Examples
- Listed integrations include Shopify, Magento, PrestaShop, WooCommerce, Shopware, BigCommerce, Lightspeed, Klaviyo, and Mailchimp.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Clerk.io offers more than 15 pre-built integrations, including Shopify, Magento, PrestaShop, and JTL, and also supports integration through its open API.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Pricing
- Pricing is tiered by usage, offers monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly contract periods, and lets customers combine products; the calculator shows 0 values by default and does not state a fixed plan price.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Pricing limits
- The pricing page says usage exceeding a tier over a three-month average may trigger an upgrade or additional usage charges; it does not show a usable USD price in the opened page content.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Pricing model
- Pricing is usage-based and tiered, with a choice of one or more of the five products and monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly contract periods.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Product
- Clerk.io is an AI platform designed to help ecommerce businesses become more profitable.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Products
- The platform offers Search, Recommendations, Chat, Audience, and Email products.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Recommendations
- AI recommendations use browsing behavior, past purchases, and real-time intent to suggest products across a store.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Search
- Search supports typo correction, synonyms, dynamic filters, query suggestions, and product and content search.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Security
- The Trust Center describes encryption in transit and at rest, least-privilege access controls, 24×7 monitoring, and regular penetration testing.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support
- The pricing page says support is included and lists support hours of Monday–Thursday 09:00–17:00 CET and Friday 09:00–16:30 CET.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Target customers
- Clerk.io says it aims to give independent and mid-market ecommerce businesses AI tools to grow profitably.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Usage limit
- If average usage over three months exceeds a tier limit, Clerk.io may upgrade the tier or invoice for the additional usage, with adjustments implemented the following month.checked 5 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Clerk.io's about page identifies Hans-Kristian Bjerregaard as its founder and CEO; the official site lists Clerk.io ApS at Kigkurren 8g, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2011checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Copenhagen, Denmarkchecked 28 Sep 2026
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