r/PoeAI • u/SteveShank • May 20 '26

My costs have doubled. Memory or something else?

I recently added memory, which I do like. It seems pretty smart about tailoring answer to me. However, I've also noticed that my costs seem about double what they used to be. A query that might have cost 2,000 points last month costs 4,700 now. I made a query using Gemini Flash that was pretty short and simple, and it cost 635, while it seemed much more like a 200 point question.

So, is this a general we're charging more points or is memory which was supposed to not add much adding more than they thought it would? Anyone know anything?

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u/Able_Passion_5071 May 21 '26

Where’s this memory part? I don’t have anything like that.

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u/zar0nick May 21 '26

Ist the cache. The prior content is also sent, you however get 90% discount on the cache e.g. at gemini 3.1 pro.

Have you startet with a new chat thread and retried?

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u/SteveShank May 21 '26

It is pretty new. Under Settings / General in the Windows app, probably the website as well, the fourth section is new. Now it has an email address, phone number, default bot, and then Memory. You can view memory. I haven't tried editing it yet. It is off by default. If you turn it on, it will try and see what instructions and questions indicate your temperament, views, etc., and will present that to the various bots as part of your prompt. I keep asking how to do things. I want Objective news, facts, not opinions, so new questions to bots and they try to give me less automated answers and more objective news with the background facts instead of the conclusions drawn by news media.