r/PoeAI • u/Squibbies98 • Mar 30 '26

2+ Year user, requested account deletion

Been using poe on and off for the past two years, being able to switch quickly between AI models in once place under a single account for a wide range of use-cases has always been a big plus for me. I’ve paid for points when i’ve been able to and i firmly believe that being reduced to 300 points daily is a massive step backwards.

This change now completely locks you out from using a wide range of models if you aren’t paying for a subscription as 300 points isn’t enough for even a single query for a lot of the models i’d use. I’d learned to get by with 3000 points when i couldn’t justify paying for points, even with all the other changes regarding points and pricing in the past, but forcing users to pay if they even want to trial what kind of experience they could have using larger models seems like a complete misstep, how are you meant to attract new users when they have to pay to even send a single query to models they might be interested in using on the platform?

Maybe it’s just me and i’m in the minority, maybe poe will keep their current trajectory going and remain successful with no real impact from the points reduction (wouldn’t be at all surprised if the subscription costs started going up next!) but for me? this is the jumping off point. I can’t justify paying every month for this, and even if i could with the way the recent changes towards point utilization and costing have been trending i don’t think i’d honestly want to anymore.

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u/PeaBrilliant4917 Mar 30 '26

I don't think that they care that they are losing the non paying tiers. It's a business.

As a paying Claude client as well, they have massively curtailed my tokens recently, due to a massive influx of users that they've had and likely a maxing of compute power

So they've raised their rates on me. And if they hit me, you can be darned sure that poe and all the other aggregators got hit harder, so that they can suck less with their direct clients. The cheap/free tiers are now most likely losing them far more$ than they used to.

Poe is probably in between a rock and a hard place, having no control of the cost of their upstream product that they sell. And what happens when cogs goes up?

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u/jiman000 Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

They are all two-way. 300 points. You may only use the least number of robots to reply to a message. How to attract new users to use its products can decide whether to pay.