# Clerky: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/clerky

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Entity management](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/corporate/entity-management/index.md) | 0% | 26 | 0% | 2 |

## What the models said for it

- "Highly cost-effective for seed-stage startups with simple entity needs" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Entity management)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Clerky, from 8 of the 10 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- rankite.com: 6
- softwareadvice.com: 6
- capterra.com: 5
- filejet.com: 5
- getapp.com: 5
- toolradar.com: 5
- athennian.com: 3
- coverpin.com: 3
- wolterskluwer.com: 3
- capterra.ca: 2

### Pages cited

- https://rankite.com/blog/best-entity-management-software: 6
- https://capterra.com/entity-management-software: 5
- https://getapp.com/operations-management-software/entity-management/org/small-business: 5
- https://softwareadvice.com/entity-management: 5
- https://toolradar.com/best/entity-management: 5
- https://filejet.com/entity-management-software-blog/best-entity-management-software: 4
- https://coverpin.com/resources/top-10-entity-management-tools-compared: 3
- https://toolradar.com/best/entity-management/for/small-businesses: 3

## In its own words

What Clerky's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Most popular online service for startup legal paperwork, including Delaware C corporation incorporation. Recommended by the most startup attorneys. Designed exclusively for startups, as opposed to regular small businesses. (https://www.clerky.com/)
- For: startup founders (https://www.clerky.com/)
- Price stated: Pay Per Use $427 One-Time Fee; Company Lifetime Package $819 One-Time Fee (https://www.clerky.com/)
- Starting price: 427 (https://www.clerky.com/)
- Customers named: Y Combinator, Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, VLP Law Group, LLP, Optimal Counsel, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Silicon Legal Strategy

## What it publishes

Every page clerky.com exposes, read 2026-10-05: 332 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 113 pages, 3 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-26
- glossary or explainer: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- Recent: 2026-08-26 blog: Clerky is joining stripe https://blog.web.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe
- Recent: 2026-07-27 blog: A new approach to cross border us startup formation https://blog.web.clerky.com/blog/a-new-approach-to-cross-border-us-startup-formation
- Recent: 2026-07-14 blog: Clerky powers lowenstein startup formation experience https://blog.web.clerky.com/blog/clerky-powers-lowenstein-startup-formation-experience
- Recent: 2026-05-06 blog: Release notes may 2026 https://blog.web.clerky.com/blog/release-notes-may-2026
- Recent: 2026-02-12 blog: Ramp https://blog.web.clerky.com/blog/ramp
- Recent: 2025-12-03 blog: Release notes december 2025 https://blog.web.clerky.com/blog/release-notes-december-2025

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/finance.