Poe
One subscription to chat with many models and build your own bots.
What it is
Poe is a aggregator, and that is the whole point: instead of choosing between four assistants you get them in one place under one bill. It is the right answer when you genuinely need to compare models week by week, and the wrong answer when you want the deepest integration with a single one.
Pricing updated 2026-11-13 Official pricing
Points-based plans grant a monthly allowance, with extra points bought pay as you go; tier prices are shown in-app after sign-in.
Open pricingPay as you go top-up at $30 per million points, billed through Stripe.
Open pricingPoe pricing explained
Poe does not sell seats — it sells points. Free accounts get a daily allowance that resets every 24 hours and does not roll over. Paid subscriptions grant a larger allowance (daily or monthly depending on the plan) plus full context length up to 2M tokens and access to subscriber-only bots; the tier prices themselves are shown in the app after sign-in, which is why we record that line without a number rather than guessing. Add-on points are published: $30 per million points, bought through Stripe. If you only need an occasional answer, the free allowance is enough; if you are comparing models for a decision, buying a small block of points is cheaper than four subscriptions.
Free-tier limits are taken from the official pricing page on the update date above. They change often — confirm before you commit to an annual plan.
Poe key features
One subscription, many models
Instead of paying four vendors, one login reaches o3-mini-high, Runway, Pika, Google DeepMind models, Luma, Ideogram, Black Forest Labs and more.
Points rather than per-model billing
Every bot costs points per message, so you are not choosing a plan per vendor — you are choosing how much compute to hold in one account.
Build and publish your own bots
A prompt, a knowledge base and a model are enough to publish a bot, which is why the catalogue is full of niche tools rather than only flagships.
Long context on paid plans
Subscribers get full context length per bot, up to 2M tokens (roughly 1.4 million words) on the models that support it — enough for a book.
Images, video and audio in the same thread
Image models, video models, audio and voice generation sit behind the same interface, so a storyboard can include motion without changing tools.
Creator monetization
Bot authors can set a per-message price and earn from usage, which turns the catalogue into a marketplace rather than a fixed menu.
Poe: how it works
A router with a shared wallet
Poe is an aggregator: requests are routed to third-party models and metered in one currency. The convenience is the single bill; the cost is that you cannot tune a vendor’s parameters directly.
Points reset, they do not accumulate
Free points arrive daily and expire; subscription points arrive daily or monthly depending on the plan, and unused ones do not roll over unless stated.
Web, iOS and Android with in-app purchases
Subscriptions bought inside the mobile apps are billed by the app store, which matters when you later need to cancel or move a team.
Poe core strengths
The cheapest way to compare models
A few dollars of points lets you run the same prompt through five vendors, which is usually the real question when someone asks “which model is best”.
One invoice instead of six
Teams that would otherwise hold accounts with several providers get a single bill and a single place to see usage.
Non-flagship models are reachable
Video and audio models that have no consumer product of their own are usable here, which is the main reason the catalogue keeps growing.
Free tier is genuinely usable
Daily points are enough for a handful of conversations a day, so evaluating it costs nothing but a login.
Poe compared with alternatives
| Tool | Poe | ChatGPT | HuggingChat | You.com |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Trying many models and media types under one login | One vendor’s models, tuned as a product | Open-weight models without an account | Search and extraction as an API |
| Pricing shape | Free daily points / points-based subscription / add-on points at $30 per 1M | Free / Plus $20 / Pro $200 per month | Free and open source | Free MCP allowance / pay per call / enterprise |
| What you get | One interface over many third-party models, plus user-built bots | A single assistant with tools, not a model menu | A chat UI over open models you can self-host | Ranked results and page contents for pipelines |
Written from the official product pages listed under Sources, not copied from another directory. Prices and limits reflect the update date above; features ship faster than reviews, so treat the list as a starting point and confirm on the official site.
Pros and cons
Strengths
- Compare several models without several subscriptions
- Bot builder is genuinely useful for repeatable tasks
- One bill instead of four
Limitations
- Points accounting makes cost hard to predict
- No single model gets the deepest integration
- Interface adds a layer between you and the model
Poe use cases
Comparing models on your own prompt
Run the same brief through four vendors in one afternoon and judge the outputs yourself, instead of trusting a leaderboard.
Storyboards that need motion
Generate a still with an image model, then animate it with a video model in the same thread, without opening a second product.
A custom bot for a narrow task
Wrap a prompt and a knowledge base into a bot your team can call by name, instead of pasting the same instructions each time.
Evaluating before committing
Spend a few dollars of points to find out whether a model suits your domain before anyone signs an annual contract.
