Merchants of record · RankedPolar
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Paddle is first at 44%.
Paddle is first at 44%.
Cleverbridge is first at 35%.
Why models recommend it
“Polar is an open-source-first MoR platform built for developers selling digital products, SaaS, or usage-based products”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“also consider Polar's free tier — it has a slightly higher fee per transaction but zero risk of hidden costs”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“If you want a true $0 upfront plan for SaaS billing with subscriptions/credits: Polar free plan 5% + $0.50”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Usage-based SaaS | Polar | Supports subscriptions, prepaid credits, and metered billing”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Polar, over the 41 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 15 | View → | |
| 30 | 3 | View → | |
| 29 | 3 | View → | |
| 26 | 13 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Polar →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Polar's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developers building AI-era software
- Price stated
- Starter Free; Pro $20/month; Growth $100/month; Scale $400/month; Startup Program Freefor 12 months
- Starting price
- Free
- Free plan or trial
- Free to start validating ideas.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 41 of the 41 answers that named Polar and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
154 of the 154 domain citations in answers naming Polar came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 43 | undated | |||
| Blog | 11 | 0 | 2026-06-16 | Merchants of record | |
| Conference or event | 9 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 5 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-06-16Building an LLM safe design system blog
- 2026-05-20Introducing polar plans blog
- 2026-03-13Prompt a startup 2026 blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page polar.sh exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.