Clever
by Clever · Identity platform for schools covering rostering, single sign-on and MFA
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Overview
Clever is an identity platform for education that links student, teacher and staff accounts to the applications a school uses. The base plan covers secure sync rostering, single sign-on, Clever Badges, a portal and analytics; higher tiers add identity management, account provisioning for Google, Active Directory and Entra ID, MFA, and support.
- Best for
- Schools and districts wanting one rostering and single sign-on integration across classroom apps
- Pricing
- No plan prices are shown — the FAQ states Clever is free for schools while application partners pay to roster, Protect Plus and Elevate are contact-sales, and priced add-ons include training from $500 per session, technical consulting at $1,200 per engagement and premium support from $4,000 per year.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- One integration connects rostering and SSO across many apps
- Free for schools; application partners pay to roster
- Classroom MFA adds a second factor without a second device
- Provisioning for Google, Active Directory and Entra ID
Trade-offs
- No plan prices published; Protect Plus and Elevate are contact-sales only
- Listed pricing covers schools in the US and Canada only
- Add-ons cost extra: $1,200 consulting, premium support from $4,000/year
- Value depends on your apps being Clever partners
How Clever markets itself
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Homepage capture
“The identity platform for education”
- Angle: Security / trust-led
- Hero: Illustration
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Clever’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
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Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
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