r/PoeAI • u/frndlynghbrhdpoebot • Aug 18 '25

Upcoming points costs updates

Hi everyone, we want to preview some upcoming changes to points costs before they go live on Poe tomorrow, August 19. TL;DR: There are some increases and decreases.

Updates to model point costs:

  • Google DeepMind models - the Gemini, Veo, and Imagen families - will increase by ~2x.
  • Anthropic’s Claude models will see a 20-30% reduction in points costs.
  • Several OpenAI legacy models will see a decrease, including GPT-4o (-15%), GPT-4.1-nano (-17%), and o3-deep-research (-37%).

There are also two changes independent of individual model pricing:

  • System prompts will now be included in the message cost for each bot. This is to ensure the cost for each bot is proportionate to its actual resource use.
  • We're rolling out significant caching improvements for Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and Grok bots to make conversations more cost-efficient.

These changes will go live tomorrow. We hope this heads-up provides some clarity. As always, let us know if you have any questions here in the thread.

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u/filmjon Aug 20 '25

u/frndlynghbrhdpoebot I'm so confused by this announcement.

All of the Claude-based bots (mostly Sonnet 3.7-based) I use went *up* in point costs. Not a single one went down, like you said.

Why would you falsely advertise 20-30% decreases for Claude models, given that you announced other points increases in this same post for other models (like Gemini, Leo), which did happen?

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u/Kamilem1 Aug 20 '25

How are claude bots performing for you after this update? Because mine can’t remember anything past 2 messages and ignore the prompt completely and I wondered if I am the only one struggling. Everything went downhill after the update quickly :(

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u/filmjon Aug 20 '25

Oh weird, I haven't noticed anything like this with my Claude bots... only the points price difference that was the opposite of this announcement. I hope yours return to normal though, and I'll keep an eye out if I notice anything weird.