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Optimize Clerk costs and understand pricing. Use when planning budget, reducing costs, or understanding Clerk pricing model. Trigger with phrases like "clerk cost", "clerk pricing", "reduce clerk cost", "clerk billing", "clerk budget".

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# Clerk Cost Tuning

## Overview

Understand Clerk pricing and optimize costs. Clerk charges by Monthly Retained Users (MRU) — a user is counted as retained only when they return 24+ hours after signing up. Covers pricing tiers, MRU reduction strategies, caching to reduce API calls, and usage monitoring.

## Prerequisites

- Clerk account active
- Understanding of MRU (Monthly Retained Users)
- Application usage patterns known

## Instructions

### Step 1: Understand Clerk Pricing Model
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