Everything is metered per document, not per tool, and every plan includes every tool. Cancel from Polar’s own portal whenever you like — we never see your card.
Enough to see whether the oven is any good.
For the person who is emailed PDFs all day.
For a team that runs documents as a job.
One run of one tool. Merging forty PDFs into one is a single document, because it produced one. Compressing forty files in a batch is forty, because it produced forty. Chat, summaries and OCR are metered separately as AI turns, since they are the ones that cost us money per use.
Three documents a day, up to ten pages each, no account: signing, editing, watermarking, page numbers, cropping, merging, splitting, organising, rotating, extracting and deleting pages, images to PDF, text to PDF and extracting images. That is most of what people arrive needing, and it is free with no watermark on the way out.
The subscription buys the rest — compressing, repairing, converting to and from Word, PDF to JPG and text, redaction, passwords, flattening, metadata and the three AI tools — and it removes the page limit entirely. File size limits stay, because those are about your browser's memory rather than our pricing.
Honestly: because a free tool with no ceiling has no way to pay for itself, and the alternatives are ads, watermarks or selling something we would rather not have. The limit is the business model, not a technical constraint — which is why we would rather say so plainly than dress it up as an infrastructure cost.
You keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for, then drop to the free allowance. Files in your library stay for another thirty days so you can pull them out, and are then removed.