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Payhip vs Polar

	Payhip	Polar
What it says it does	We make it easy for you to sell anything online anywhere: digital downloads, online courses, memberships, coaching and physical products from one store you can build without code.	Polar is the Merchant of Record for developers building AI-era software: payments, subscriptions, and usage-based billing, with global tax handled for you.
Pricing	Free plan $0/mo + 5% transaction fee; Plus $29/mo + 2%; Pro $99/mo with no transaction fee. All plans include every feature; PayPal/Stripe fees still apply (official)	Starter free with 5% + 50¢ per transaction; Pro $20/mo (3.8% + 40¢); Growth $100/mo (3.6% + 35¢); Scale $400/mo (3.4% + 30¢); +1.5% for non-US cards; Stripe payout fees passed through (official)
Website	https://payhip.com/	https://polar.sh/

Which to use

Payhip wins when you want to start selling for $0 a month and only pay a fee when you make sales. Polar wins when you want a Merchant of Record with public, simple fees for selling software and subscriptions.

Choose Payhip if you sell digital downloads, courses, memberships or coaching and want a store with tax handling and no monthly fee to start.
Choose Polar if you sell software, SaaS subscriptions or digital products and want tax handled for you.

This is an editorial fit note from each vendor's public site and docs, not a sponsored ranking and not a price quote. Descriptions in the table come from those sites. Confirm current prices there. How we review tools.

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