List, search, filter and count Clerk users via GET /v1/users and GET /v1/users/count
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Send GET https://api.clerk.com/v1/users with header 'Authorization: Bearer <CLERK_SECRET_KEY>'.
Paginate with limit (integer greater than 0 and less than 501; default 10) and offset (default 0).
Sort with order_by, e.g. order_by=-created_at (default, descending) or order_by=+email_address. Sortable fields include created_at, updated_at, email_address, first_name, last_name, phone_number, username, last_active_at, last_sign_in_at.
Free-text search with query=<partial string>. It matches partially and case-insensitively across user id, email, phone, username, web3 wallet, first name and last name.
Exact-match array filters (each capped at 100 values per request): email_address[], phone_number[], username[], user_id[], external_id[], organization_id[], web3_wallet[].
For a total without fetching rows, call GET https://api.clerk.com/v1/users/count with the same filter params. It returns a single total and ignores limit/offset.
To walk the full set, loop with a fixed limit and increase offset by that limit each call until the returned array length is less than limit.
limit is hard-capped at 500 per request. There is no way to raise it; large exports must paginate.
Pagination is offset-based, not cursor-based. On an actively changing user base, rows can be skipped or repeated between pages. For exact exports, sort by created_at and de-duplicate on user id.
query does fuzzy multi-field matching and will return different results than the exact email_address[] filter. Do not use query when you need an exact lookup.
Array filters accept at most 100 values each, so batch large id lists.
Full-table sync loops can hit the instance rate limit of 1000 req/10s (production) or 100 req/10s (development).
Docs: https://clerk.com/docs/reference/backend/user/get-user-list and https://clerk.com/docs/reference/backend/user/get-count
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