Polar is a payment infrastructure designed for modern SaaS and digital product businesses. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools to manage billing, subscriptions, and revenue, with a strong emphasis on developer experience and open-source principles.
Key features include:
- Usage-Based Billing: Robust event ingestion API with strategies like LLM, Delta Time, S3, Stream, and manual ingestion.
- Digital Products & SaaS Billing: Flexible pricing models and seamless payment processing for digital and subscription products.
- Benefits Engine: Automates access to features using license keys, credits, downloadables, GitHub repos, and Discord roles.
- Global Merchant of Record: Handles tax compliance, including sales tax, VAT, and GST.
- Framework Adapters: Integrates with Next.js, BetterAuth, and TypeScript, with 13 adapters available.
- Command Line Tools:
polar-initfor bootstrapping projects andpolar-migratefor migrating from LemonSqueezy.
Polar targets developers and businesses looking for a modern, developer-friendly payment solution with features like automated benefits and global tax compliance.