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Polar — A billing platform for the intelligence era

What it is

Turn usage into revenue. Polar is the financial layer for a new generation of intelligent software, built for AI startups that need to charge for tokens, agents, and compute without building billing infrastructure from scratch. Ship any pricing model in an afternoon. Usage billing, subscriptions, seats, credits, trials, and discounts. Compose them however your product charges. Meter what matters. Bill tokens, API calls, agent runs, GPU seconds, and storage with precision down to the event. Checkouts that convert, realtime metrics, and worldwide tax handled for you. We're the merchant of record, so we take on the billing boilerplate (receipts, customer accounts, dunning) and the headaches…

When to use it

Reach for polar when you need sign-in, users, permissions, subscriptions or getting paid — it's written in Python and fits stacks tagged digital-products, fastapi, merchant-of-record, nextjs.

Category
Auth & Payments
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Stars
10,469
Forks
849
Last push
today
Created
2023-01-26
Open issues
141
Website
polar.sh

Quick start

$ git clone https://github.com/polarsource/polar.git

Hand it to your AI

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FAQ

What is polar?

polarsource/polar is an auth / payments tool on GitHub: Polar — A billing platform for the intelligence era Turn usage into revenue.

When should I use polar?

Reach for polar when you need sign-in, users, permissions, subscriptions or getting paid — it's written in Python and fits stacks tagged digital-products, fastapi, merchant-of-record, nextjs.

What are the best alternatives to polar?

Popular alternatives in Auth & Payments: keycloak/keycloak (37.8k★), better-auth/better-auth (30.7k★), logto-io/logto (14.9k★), stripe/stripe-node (4.6k★), nextauthjs/next-auth (28.4k★).

Is polar actively maintained?

polarsource/polar looks very actively maintained: the last push was today (2026-11-11), with 10,469 stars and 141 open issues.

What license does polar use?

polarsource/polar is published under the Apache-2.0 license. Check the repository's LICENSE file before commercial use.