polarsource/polar
★ 10,370 stars
Covered in week 2026-W22 · the 2026-05 report
Turn your software into a business.
What polar 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.
From the repository README · read it on GitHub →
Transcript
Gumroad costs 10% of every sale. Polar does it free. It's fully open source and self-hostable, so you keep every single dollar you earn. Polar is a complete monetization platform built specifically for developers. Sell SaaS subscriptions, GitHub repo access, license keys, and digital products all from one dashboard. It handles sales tax, VAT, billing, and customer receipts automatically as your merchant of record. With 9,800 stars on GitHub, developers are clearly making the switch. Star it if this saved you money.