# Polar

Polar declares [21 subprocessors](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/polar#subprocessors) in [its subprocessor list](https://polar.sh/legal/sub-processors), which we last checked on 2026-11-11 ([evidence](https://thirdpartyindex.com/evidence/234123)). They include [Amazon Web Services](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/amazon-web-services), [Google Cloud](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/google-cloud) and [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai). No published changes since we first read it on 2026-11-07. [3 tracked vendors](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/polar#used-by) name Polar as a subprocessor, including [Pepperwire](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/pepperwire), [TryWired](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/trywired) and [VoxisLive](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/voxislive).

Polar (polar.sh): subprocessors, data processing agreement, security documents and changes, as monitored by Third Party Index.

- Page: https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/polar
- Documents last verified: 2026-11-11
- Transparency rating: 76/100 (how much it publishes, not how secure it is): Subprocessor list 30/30; Processing locations 8/8; Purposes 7/7; Data processing addendum 12/12; Trust center 0/8 (not found); Privacy policy 6/6; security.txt 0/6 (not found); Security page 0/5 (not found); Status page 5/5; Vulnerability disclosure 0/5 (not found); Pages still reachable 8/8
- Supply chain: relies on 17 tracked vendors directly, 147 within two hops, 458 within three; 3 tracked vendors rely on it directly, 3 within two hops, 3 within three
- Cite as: Polar, Third Party Index, https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/polar (data CC BY 4.0)

## Documents

| Document | URL | Last verified | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subprocessor list | https://polar.sh/legal/sub-processors | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-07 |
| Data processing addendum | https://polar.sh/legal/data-processing-addendum | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-07 |
| Privacy policy | https://polar.sh/legal/privacy-policy | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-07 |
| Terms | https://polar.sh/legal/master-services-terms | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-07 |
| Status page | https://status.polar.sh/ | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-08 |

## Subprocessors (21)

As its own list states them.

| Subprocessor | Purpose | Location | Listed since |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Amazon Web Services, Inc.](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/amazon-web-services.md) | Serving core billing platform features and storing historical platform usage for security audits | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [Anthropic, PBC](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic.md) (AI model provider: Anthropic) | Product and engineering triage | Distributed | 2026-11-07 |
| [Attio Limited](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/attio.md) | Managing customer and sales relationships | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| Campfire Software, Inc. | Accounting and financial reporting | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [Functional Software, Inc. (Sentry)](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry.md) | Technical errors reporting | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [Google LLC (Google Workspace)](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/google-cloud.md) | Communication and collaboration | Distributed | 2026-11-07 |
| [Intuit Inc. (QuickBooks)](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/intuit.md) | Bookkeeping and financial reporting | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| Jade Technologies Ltd (ChargebackStop) | Monitoring credit card chargebacks | UK | 2026-11-07 |
| [Linear Orbit, Inc.](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/linear.md) | Product and engineering issue tracking | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [Not Just Tickets Ltd (Plain)](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain.md) | Customer support service | UK | 2026-11-07 |
| Numeral Two, Inc. | Processing tax/VAT | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [OpenAI OpCo, LLC](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai.md) (AI model provider: OpenAI) | Product and engineering triage | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [PlanetScale](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/planetscale.md) | Serving core billing platform features | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [Plus Five Five, Inc. (Resend)](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/resend.md) | Sending notifications emails to users and customers | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [PostHog, Inc.](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/posthog.md) | Analyzing user and customer flows to optimize the platform | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| Pydantic Services, Inc. (Logfire) | Technical performance and errors reporting. Powering AI features on Polar platform | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [Slack Technologies, LLC](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/slack.md) | Internal communication | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [Stripe, Inc.](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe.md) | Processing payments and tax/VAT | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [Tally BV](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/tally-so.md) | Collecting form and survey responses | Belgium | 2026-11-07 |
| [Tinybird, Inc.](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/tinybird.md) | Serving core billing platforms features and usage-based analysis | USA | 2026-11-07 |
| [Vercel, Inc.](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/vercel.md) | Service core billing platform features | Distributed | 2026-11-07 |

Read from ([evidence](https://thirdpartyindex.com/evidence/234123)). CSV: https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/polar/subprocessors.csv

AI model providers (or a cloud provider's AI model service) among these entries: 2. All vendors that list one: https://thirdpartyindex.com/ai

## Web Technologies

Polar's homepage made 87 requests to 2 domains, and 1 service controlled by another company. Loaded on 2026-11-09 by a browser that accepted nothing; other visits may load more or less. What a page loads is not a list of who receives customer data.

1 third party by category: Analytics 1 (Google Cloud). Each company that appears controlled by another organization is counted once, under the main category of the technologies detected from it on this homepage or, when none was, the category recorded from the company's own page (marked reviewed) or else the one it is usually detected as on other published homepages (marked as such); unclassified: none of these.

### Third parties (1)

- Google Cloud: 1 request to googletagmanager.com; Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager (its subprocessor list names it too)

### First party (1)

- Polar: 86 requests to polar.sh; Cloudflare, Emotion, GSAP, HSTS, HTTP/3, Lucide, Next.js 16.4.4, Next.js App Router, Open Graph, Priority Hints, React, Sentry, Turbopack, Vercel, Webpack

## Subprocessor of (3)

Tracked vendors whose own subprocessor lists name it, and what they say they use it for.

- [Pepperwire](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/pepperwire.md): Payment processing and merchant of record. Holds billing details; never receives your message data
- [TryWired](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/trywired.md): Payments, billing, and Merchant of Record
- [VoxisLive](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/voxislive.md)

## Service status

Incidents it reported on its own status page.

- Last 30 days: 1 reported incidents (0 major or critical, 1 minor, 0 with no impact stated)
- Typical time to resolve: 4 min
- Status page last read: 2026-11-12
- 2026-10-13: Event ingestion degraded (minor)

## Incidents reported by Polar's subprocessors

Incidents reported in the last 30 days on their own status pages by 10 vendors Polar lists as subprocessors. A subprocessor list names a company, not the service an incident touched.

- 2026-11-11: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Unable to start new Workspace Agent runs (critical)
- 2026-11-11: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors affecting logins, sign-ups, and ChatGPT features (minor)
- 2026-11-11: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported US issues feed throwing intermittent errors (minor)
- 2026-11-11: [Linear](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/linear#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Slack integration degraded due to Slack outage (minor)
- 2026-11-11: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Account emails not being delivered (major)
- 2026-11-10: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors on Fable 52 and Mythos 52 (no impact stated)
- 2026-11-10: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported EU region replay ingestion latency (minor)
- 2026-11-10: [Vercel](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/vercel#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated Sandbox and Blob request latency and errors (minor)
- 2026-11-10: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Incorrect cost data in Costs API exports (no impact stated)
- 2026-11-09: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated Errors On API (minor)
- 2026-11-09: [Plain](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Help Center errors (no impact stated)
- 2026-11-09: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated ChatGPT Conversation Errors (minor)
- 2026-11-09: [Plain](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Intermittent API errors on write actions (minor)
- 2026-11-08: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors with image generation (minor)
- 2026-11-08: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Degraded performance for Claude Fable 5.1 (minor)
- 2026-11-06: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated error rates with some U.S. business Mastercards (no impact stated)
- 2026-11-05: [Vercel](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/vercel#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Build delays and degraded Vercel Dashboard performance (minor)
- 2026-11-05: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported ChatGPT Work and Dots Errors (minor)
- 2026-11-04: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated error rates across paid ChatGPT plans (minor)
- 2026-11-04: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Ingestion delays across all data (minor)
- 2026-11-04: [Plain](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Delays in incoming emails (minor)
- 2026-11-03: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Delays in spans and transactions processing (major)
- 2026-11-03: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Sentry.io dashboard and API is down (critical)
- 2026-11-03: [Plain](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Some Sidekick requests failing (minor)
- 2026-11-03: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported File upload errors in ChatGPT (minor)
- 2026-11-02: [Plain](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Delays receiving Slack messages in Plain (minor)
- 2026-11-02: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Sentry dashboard is down (critical)
- 2026-11-02: [Tinybird](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/tinybird#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported High error rate in ondemand replicas (major)
- 2026-11-01: [Stripe](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated Instant Payouts failures (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-30: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors with search in Dots, ChatGPT Work, and certain ChatGPT thinking experiences (minor)
- 2026-10-30: [Linear](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/linear#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Project pages failing to load (minor)
- 2026-10-30: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors for GPT Image 2 API image edits (minor)
- 2026-10-30: [Plain](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Reporting data delayed (minor)
- 2026-10-29: [Plain](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors across the Plain app, API and help centers (major)
- 2026-10-28: [Linear](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/linear#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Some Slack integrations have been unexpectedly archived (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-28: [Stripe](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated Issuing errors from 17:13 - 20:41 UTC (minor)
- 2026-10-28: [Plain](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Degraded AI features (minor)
- 2026-10-28: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors affecting the Google Calendar connector (minor)
- 2026-10-28: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors affecting the Gmail connector (minor)
- 2026-10-27: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors for Claude Sonnet 5.5 (major)
- 2026-10-27: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported 6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance (minor)
- 2026-10-27: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors for Claude Sonnet 5.5 (major)
- 2026-10-27: [Linear](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/linear#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Problems loading application (major)
- 2026-10-27: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated error rates for most hosted Code Reviews and Security Reviews on private GitHub repositories (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-26: [PlanetScale](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/planetscale#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Problems with Vitess connectivity and credential changes (major)
- 2026-10-26: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated error rates for Ads POST requests (minor)
- 2026-10-26: [Resend](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/resend#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Delayed email status updates (minor)
- 2026-10-25: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1 (major)
- 2026-10-25: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and other models (major)
- 2026-10-24: [Stripe](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated Blik errors (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-24: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 (major)
- 2026-10-24: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors for Claude Opus 5.5 (major)
- 2026-10-23: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5 (critical)
- 2026-10-23: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Degraded experience with ChatGPT app connections using CIMD (minor)
- 2026-10-23: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Help Center Chat Support Degraded (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-23: [Vercel](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/vercel#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Delays in Logs and Observability data (minor)
- 2026-10-23: [Resend](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/resend#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Intermittent latency spikes on our emails API (minor)
- 2026-10-23: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Delays in customer support responses (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-22: [Stripe](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated Bancontact errors (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-22: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported New Ad Accounts failing to provision admins (minor)
- 2026-10-22: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Degraded Performance of Dots on Enterprise (minor)
- 2026-10-22: [Stripe](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated Bancontact errors (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-22: [Plain](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Search results may be missing recent conversations (minor)
- 2026-10-22: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated errors affecting Connectors (minor)
- 2026-10-22: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors (minor)
- 2026-10-21: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Authentication errors for some users (major)
- 2026-10-21: [Anthropic](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/anthropic#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Degraded performance for Claude Fable 5 (minor)
- 2026-10-21: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Increased latency processing integration webhooks (minor)
- 2026-10-21: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests (minor)
- 2026-10-21: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated FedRAMP API error rates for Astra and Sol (minor)
- 2026-10-21: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Sentry.io not loading in US region (critical)
- 2026-10-21: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs (minor)
- 2026-10-20: [PlanetScale](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/planetscale#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Gap in dashboard metrics for AWS us-east-1 (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-20: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Sentry.io not loading (major)
- 2026-10-20: [Stripe](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Spike in cancellations and expired errors with PayByBank payments (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-20: [Stripe](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated Revolut Pay errors (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-19: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Sentry is down (critical)
- 2026-10-19: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported File Download errors (minor)
- 2026-10-15: [Stripe](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated declines on Mastercard (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-15: [Stripe](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated declines on Visa (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-15: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Widespread feature degradation (major)
- 2026-10-15: [Stripe](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/stripe#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Elevated Amazon Pay errors (no impact stated)
- 2026-10-14: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API (minor)
- 2026-10-14: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Limited availability on gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst (minor)
- 2026-10-14: [Plain](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/plain#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Delayed processing of some thread events (minor)
- 2026-10-14: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Degraded performance in Codex and ChatGPT Work (minor)
- 2026-10-14: [Sentry](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/sentry#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Ingestion Halted for EAP data in EU (major)
- 2026-10-13: [OpenAI](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/openai#status), which Polar lists as a subprocessor, reported Degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode (minor)

The subprocessor list as we read it on any date: https://thirdpartyindex.com/labs/time-machine/polar

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