clerk

2026-05-14T09:53:24.987309Z

How do i decide between clay and clerk? :)

mkvlr 2026-05-14T11:40:18.074989Z

maybe try both and see what you prefer? Or go with clerk (:

2026-05-14T14:15:35.558149Z

I used both, and my "reflex" tells me: "Clerk caches expressions by default", if you need/want this use Clerk

phronmophobic 2026-05-14T16:38:20.496439Z

I think clerk puts an emphasis on reapeatibility, which can be crucial for certain types of use cases. Otherwise, you can try both to see how they feel as others have mentioned.

2026-05-14T16:51:54.175039Z

OK, so my implicit assumption that they More or less solve the same Problem was not entirely wrong^^

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phronmophobic 2026-05-14T16:56:53.756759Z

Clay also supports use cases that overlap with data inspectors like #portal by narrowing the output to a single result.

Steven Lombardi 2026-05-15T02:55:54.099679Z

I like both but I ended up using Clay because my use cases involve various document publishing flows and I'd rather not deal with the Tailwind ecosystem when managing custom styles and other customizations.

Steven Lombardi 2026-05-15T02:59:24.986869Z

Also, Clay made it relatively straightforward to use docstring-style text as prose/content in-between my forms. Customization of the output was also a bit more flexible.