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Welcome to Polar

Polar is building the best funding & monetization platform for developers.

Use our platform and API to get paid coding on your passion. From first donation to IPO.

Leave sales tax, EU VAT, billing infrastructure and operational overhead to us as the merchant of record (MoR).

  • All-in-one funding & monetization (soon) platform for open source- and indie developers.
  • Build your own audience with Polar Newsletters/Posts
  • 1% OSS Program - setup automatic rewards to upstream contributors/dependencies (soon)
  • We're the merchant of record handling the...
    • ...boilerplate (billing, receipts, customer accounts etc)
    • ...headaches (sales tax, VAT)

Pricing

  • No fixed, monthly, costs
  • 5% + payment & payout fees