Clerk development and production instances hold separate users, so test accounts do not exist in prod
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:03.289Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:03.289Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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Publishable and secret keys beginning with the test prefix address the development instance and the live prefix addresses production. They are different datastores: users, organizations, JWT templates, webhook endpoints and social connection credentials created in development do not appear in production and must be configured twice.
Going live is therefore a configuration migration rather than a key swap, and the first production sign-in is the first real test of the production configuration. Development instances also relax several rules, allowing shortcuts such as permissive origins and reserved test identifiers, which means a flow that works locally can fail on production's stricter checks. Rehearse the production instance with a real domain before launch day.
Source: https://clerk.com/docs
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