Founded by Birk Jernström in 2022
Manage usage-based billing, subscriptions, and global tax compliance for digital products
Pricing model
Free Tier, Paid
Rating
★ People love it
Time to value
Quick Setup (< 1 hour)
You can use Polar to set up usage-based billing, recurring subscriptions, and prepaid credit balances for your products. It records events like API calls, token counts, or compute usage directly from your code and bills customers automatically in real time. Because Polar acts as a merchant of record, it takes care of sales tax calculation, tax remittance, payment processing, fraud prevention, and dispute handling in over a hundred countries. You also get cost insights that track your gross margins per customer against direct infrastructure expenses.
What Polar does
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Pricing model: Free tier, Paid
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