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Every package Polar depends on, ranked by repo health score.
Polar is an open source monetization platform built for developers who want to sell SaaS, AI tools, and digital products without spending months building billing infrastructure. It acts as the merchant of record, handling subscriptions, usage-based billing, tax compliance across 100+ countries, and customer lifecycle management so you can focus on building the product itself.
The platform supports selling access to GitHub repositories, Discord communities, license keys, file downloads, and seat-based products through a single unified checkout and customer portal. It integrates with Stripe for payments and provides official SDKs for JavaScript and Python, plus framework adapters for Next.js, BetterAuth, Astro, and more.
At its core, Polar includes an event ingestion engine and metering system that enables usage-based pricing — developers can emit custom events (API calls, token usage, storage bytes) and Polar automatically meters them, generates invoices, and bills customers based on actual consumption. This makes it particularly well-suited for AI SaaS products and developer tooling where pricing tied to resource usage is increasingly the norm.
Polar is open source under the Apache 2.0 license, with a hosted version at polar.sh that acts as the MOR and handles the complexity of tax filings and payment processor relationships.