Poe

Poe answers a question a lot of people have: why pay $20 each to OpenAI, Anthropic and Google when you mostly want to try all three? Quora's Poe pools the frontier models — plus image and video generators and thousands of community bots — behind one compute-point allowance.

What is Poe?

Poe is a multi-model AI platform. A flat monthly fee buys a compute-point allowance that you spend across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, image and video models, and creator-built bots. Each message costs a number of points determined by the model you chose, so a quick question to a light model costs almost nothing while a long generation on a frontier model costs a great deal. That design is Poe's strength and its weakness: you get breadth no single vendor offers, but predicting how far an allowance goes takes experience. Poe now runs a free tier plus six paid tiers, and add-on points can be bought at $30 per million with a one-year expiry.

Key Features

• Every major model in one place: Frontier text models alongside image and video generators.
• Compute points: A single allowance spent wherever you like, rather than per-vendor limits.
• Six paid tiers: From $4.99 to $249.99 a month, so the ladder fits both casual and heavy users.
• Creator bots: Thousands of task-specific bots built by the community, plus your own.
• Add-on points: Top up at $30 per million with a one-year expiry instead of upgrading tier.

Who Should Use Poe?

Poe is best for people who want breadth over depth: comparing how different models answer the same prompt, trying new releases the week they land, or accessing an expensive model occasionally without a dedicated subscription. Starter at $4.99 is genuinely useful for light users. Where Poe falls short is depth — you get the models, but not each vendor's surrounding features, so if you rely on ChatGPT's connectors, Claude Code or Gemini's Workspace integration, you still need the native subscription. Heavy single-model users are almost always better off going direct.

Pricing

The free tier gives roughly 300 compute points a day — about 15 to 30 short messages on lighter models. Paid tiers are Starter at $4.99/month (10,000 points a day), Standard at $19.99/month (660,000 points a month), Pro at $49.99/month (1.65 million), Premium at $99.99/month (3.3 million) and Enterprise at $249.99/month (8.25 million). Annual billing saves 17%. Additional points cost $30 per million, expire after a year and carry no transaction fee.

Pros and Cons

Bottom Line

Poe is the right subscription when variety is the point — evaluation, comparison, occasional access to expensive models. It is the wrong one when you have settled on a favourite and use it all day, because compute points will cost more than that vendor's own $20 plan. Start on Starter at $4.99 and watch how fast your points go before moving up.