Polar
polar.sh- Category
- Developer Tools
- Rank
- No. 1358Tools index
Previous survey · No. 1319 ·
- Listed in
- #4 Accept payments
- Pricing
- Paid
- Type
- TOOL
- Builder
- @polar_sh
- Date
About
Open-source merchant of record for devs. Merchant of record built for developers and OSS maintainers: digital products, subscriptions, license keys, GitHub Sponsors integration.
What it does
The site pitches a billing platform for usage-based products: it meters events like tokens and API calls in real time, converts them into subscription or usage charges, runs checkout, and handles payment collection, tax and payouts as the seller's reseller across many markets.
Stated on the product site
- Pricing
- Pricing is tiered by plan (Starter, Pro, Growth, Scale), each combining a flat monthly fee with a per-transaction fee that decreases as the plan level rises.
- Merchant of record
- It positions itself as the merchant of record, reselling the customer's product and taking on payment, tax, fraud and chargeback responsibility.
- Integrations
- It offers a Python SDK and webhook infrastructure for wiring billing into a product.
- Usage metering
- It tracks granular usage events such as tokens, agent runs and GPU seconds and turns them into live per-customer meters for billing.
Not stated on the site
- The page does not specify which languages or frameworks beyond Python the SDK covers.
- It's unclear what onboarding or verification steps a business must complete to start selling through the platform.
- The page does not name which payout currencies or bank transfer methods are supported.
- Whether the Startup Program's discounted rate continues automatically after twelve months is not addressed on the page.
Written from the product site at polar.sh.
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