Finance & HR · payments

Track your Polar bills and renewals

Polar is a merchant of record aimed at AI companies and developers, built around usage billing: it ingests events such as token counts, agent runs and GPU time, rolls them into real-time meters, and puts subscriptions, prepaid credits and overage on one invoice while handling global sales tax. It can also attach inference costs to events to show the gross margin of each customer.

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Provider: Polar
Website: polar.sh
Category: Finance & HR
Type: payments
Also searched as: polar.sh

About Polar

What people pay Polar for

Merchant of record payments
Usage-based billing and metering
Subscriptions and prepaid credits
Global sales tax handling
Customer cost and margin insights

For: Developers and AI companies selling software

Polar pricing and billing

Pricing: Plans plus usage
Free plan: Yes
Billed: Monthly
Plans: Starter, Pro, Growth, Scale
Paid plans from: $20 per month plus 3.8% + 40¢ per transaction (Pro)

Per-transaction rates fall from 5% + 50¢ on the free Starter plan to 3.4% + 30¢ on Scale; organizations created before 27 May 2026 keep an Early Member rate of 4% + 40¢.

As listed on Polar's site on 7 November 2026 · official pricing. Prices change; confirm before you buy.

Tracking tip

Polar bills for what you use, so the amount changes from month to month. Record what was actually charged when each payment lands; your payment history then shows real costs, and Insights (Pro) flags changes of 5% or more.

How to track Polar in SysCost

SysCost keeps every Polar subscription in one ledger with the rest of your tools, reminds your team before each renewal, and converts every currency into yours.

Step 1
Pick Polar
Add a subscription, choose Polar as its provider and give it your own name.
Step 2
Set the cycle
Enter the amount, currency, billing cycle and next payment date.
Step 3
Get reminders
In Slack, Discord, Telegram or email, days before each renewal.
Step 4
Record payments
Mark each one paid, failed or skipped; unpaid ones show as overdue.

Useful Polar links

Checked to load on 7 November 2026. Sources: polar.sh.

Polar and SysCost: common questions

Can SysCost track my Polar subscription?

Yes. Polar is built into SysCost with its logo: pick it as the provider when you add a subscription.

Does Polar have a free plan?

Yes, Polar lists a free plan, according to its website (checked 7 November 2026). Paid plans start from $20 per month plus 3.8% + 40¢ per transaction (Pro).

How does Polar bill?

Polar offers monthly billing, priced plans plus usage. In SysCost, choose the matching cycle (monthly, quarterly or yearly) and every renewal is projected from your next payment date.