How much does Polar cost?

Polar publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Starter up to $400/month for Scale. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Starter and Startup Program on Polar?

Startup Program costs Free against Free, and adds scale plan pricing at no cost, 12-month free period, for early-stage ai companies.

Is the Scale plan on Polar worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 3.4% + $0.30 per transaction, dedicated support, custom integration. It costs $400/month against $20/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which accounting tools can I use without paying?

2 of the 8 accounting tools listed alongside Polar have a free tier: Stigg, Lago.

Does Polar charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Polar prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Polar against before paying?

The closest accounting tools in this directory are Orb, Creem, Stigg, Lago. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Polar covering price, platforms and features.

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Polar pricing

Polar publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free, then $20/month
Model: Percentage of transaction plus per-transaction fee
Tiers: 5
Free tier: Yes

Polar plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Polar pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Starter	Free	3	Entry tier
Startup Program	Free	3	+$0/12 months, 3 more features
Pro	$20/month	3	+$20/month, 3 more features
Growth	$100/month	3	+$80/month, 3 more features
Scale	$400/month	3	+$300/month, 3 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Starter

Free

The entry tier. It covers 5% + $0.50 per transaction, free tier for testing, basic features.

Startup Program

Free

Over Starter, this tier adds:

Scale plan pricing at no cost
12-month free period
For early-stage AI companies

Pro

$20/month

Over Startup Program, this tier adds:

3.8% + $0.40 per transaction
Full platform access
Cost insights

Growth

$100/month

Over Pro, this tier adds:

3.6% + $0.35 per transaction
Priority support
Volume benefits

Scale

$400/month

Over Growth, this tier adds:

3.4% + $0.30 per transaction
Dedicated support
Custom integration

Where Polar stops being free

Starter, Free

5% + $0.50 per transaction
Free tier for testing
Basic features

Pro, $20/month

The first thing you pay for:

3.8% + $0.40 per transaction
Full platform access
Cost insights

What the product covers

The full Polar feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Usage Billing
Subscriptions
Seat Management
Prepaid Credits
Hosted Checkout
Cost Insights
Merchant of Record

People bring Polar in for billing for token and api call consumption by llm applications, managing tiered pricing for infrastructure usage-based services, handling subscription and usage hybrid models, monetizing ai apis with usage metering and credits. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Polar are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Accounting

Across the 4 accounting tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $201.5/month. Polar starts at $20/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.

Polar entry price against other Accounting tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Polar (this page)	Free, then $20/month	Percentage of transaction plus per-transaction fee	-
Orb	On request	Custom pricing based on billing volume and events	-	vs Polar
Creem	$3.9/percent	Per-transaction flat rate	-	vs Polar
Stigg	Free, then $399/month	Freemium with usage-based and custom tiers	-	vs Polar
Lago	Free	Freemium with optional paid tiers	-	vs Polar
Dodo Payments	$4/percent + $0.40	Percentage of transaction plus fixed per-transaction fee	-	vs Polar
Metronome	On request	Usage-based and custom	-	vs Polar

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Polar badges page.

Before you pay for Polar

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 5 tiers between Free and $400/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Polar runs on web, api, and is published by Polar. The full record is on the Polar review, and the rest of the category is under best accounting tools.

Polar pricing on the vendor's own site

Polar pricing questions

How much does Polar cost?: Polar publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Starter up to $400/month for Scale. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Polar have a free plan?: Yes. The Starter tier costs nothing and covers 5% + $0.50 per transaction, free tier for testing, basic features. Paying starts at $20/month for Pro.
What is the difference between Starter and Startup Program on Polar?: Startup Program costs Free against Free, and adds scale plan pricing at no cost, 12-month free period, for early-stage ai companies.
Is the Scale plan on Polar worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 3.4% + $0.30 per transaction, dedicated support, custom integration. It costs $400/month against $20/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Is Polar expensive for a accounting tool?: It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 4 accounting tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $201.5/month; Polar starts at $20/month.
Which accounting tools can I use without paying?: 2 of the 8 accounting tools listed alongside Polar have a free tier: Stigg, Lago.
What am I actually paying for with Polar?: The record lists 7 features across 1 area: core. In practice it is brought in for billing for token and api call consumption by llm applications, managing tiered pricing for infrastructure usage-based services, handling subscription and usage hybrid models.
Does Polar charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Polar prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Polar against before paying?: The closest accounting tools in this directory are Orb, Creem, Stigg, Lago. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Polar covering price, platforms and features.