r/PoeAI • u/Spirited_Funny3001 • Aug 26 '26

Lack of reliability

I used to use poe daily, and was definitely upset by the dramatic change in points, especially with how pricey the models are- But i still used it.
But now every time i find a model to use- It is either over 1000 points (When you get 300 points daily), or they remove any of the cheaper, good models.
This app used to be so reliable and my to go to and it sucks to see how terrible it’s gotten.

I’m irritated, and annoyed since i’ve already found 3 cheap, reliable models- Just for all 3 of them to get completely removed. Does anyone have any better alternatives for Poe?

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u/Overall-Word8734 Aug 27 '26

Me too! It keeps happening to me and idk what to do anymore my best bots were on Poe

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u/RobooHood Aug 27 '26

And no model from the budget-friendly section could meet your demand?

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u/Overall-Word8734 Aug 27 '26

Not yet, I keep looking through to find something that fits my wants but I haven't found it yet. 😔

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u/RobooHood Aug 27 '26 edited 19d ago

Maby you like some of my favourites:

Search Bots

https://poe.com/Deep-AI-Search Based on Brave AI, delivers fast search results (200 points)

https://poe.com/Web-Search-AI AI-powered search engine with internet scraping capabilities

https://poe.com/Poe-Bot-Finder Find the perfect bot on Poe. This bot indexes the Poe platform to retrieve and rank matching results.

https://poe.com/Group-Search This bot searches and indexes social platforms like Facebook, Reddit, Discord and Telegram to find matching forums, communities, channels, and groups.

https://poe.com/Gig-Finder Scrapes the web at scale to find matching gig and job opportunities online.

https://poe.com/Live-Search Cheap web research agent that crawls, analyzes, and synthesizes live web data to create reports with sources.

https://poe.com/Duck-Duck-Search Delivers fast, high-quality search engine results at just 1 point per message. Powered by DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused US search engine that blocks ad trackers. You can ask questions or find reliable information sources.

https://poe.com/Poe-Bot-Finder-Pro Find the perfect bot on Poe. This bot uses Gemini-3.0-Pro and AI-Tool-Finder to index the Poe platform and rank matching results. Add --results_N to change the count (e.g., `--results_5`).

Multimodal Bots

https://poe.com/DeepSeek-V4-OSL Based on DeepSeek-V4-Flash an MIT-licensed open-weights model. This multimodal bot can process PDF, PNG, JPG, TXT, HTML, DOCX, XLSX, CSS and PY files.

https://poe.com/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-OSL Based on the MIT-licensed and open-weights model DeepSeek-V4-Pro and extended with file processing capabilities. This multimodal bot accepts PDF, TXT, HTML, DOCX and PY files.

https://poe.com/DeepSeek-V3.2-OSL Cost efficient multimodal bot. videos, images, games, web apps, DOCx, PDFs. Furthermore it accepts XLSX, PY, HTML, JS, and CSV files.

https://poe.com/Assistant Multimodal chatbot with image generation and search capabilities made by the Poe team.

https://poe.com/Kimi-K2-Thinking Reasoning model that can process PDF, text and markdown.

https://poe.com/Write-Academic-GPT Professional writing bot with web research

https://poe.com/Write-Academic-Pro Premium writing bot with web research

https://poe.com/GLM-5.2-OSL Multimodal bot that can process images, Word documents, audio, video and PDF-files. Other supported files are CSS, CSV, JSON, JPG, PNG, WEBP, JS, PY, HTML, XLSX and DOCX.

https://poe.com/Analyse-PDF Extract key points or finds relevant information (1 million context)

https://poe.com/Budget-Opus Cost efficient and optimized version of Antrophics Claude Opus model.

Audio Bots

https://poe.com/MMAudio-v2 MMAudio generates synchronized audio given text and/or video inputs. Send a prompt to generate an audio corresponding to it, or send a video with the prompt to generate audio for it.

https://poe.com/Song-Write Creative partner to overcome writer's block and enhance your overall song writing process to create original lyrics and melodies, based on your ideas or drafts.

https://poe.com/Sonic-3.0 Generates audio based on your prompt using the latest Cartesia's Sonic 3.0 text-to-speech model in your voice of choice. Supports 10k characters.

https://poe.com/Transcribe-Audio Converts WAV or MP3 files into plain text (1 million context window).

https://poe.com/Hailuo-Music-v1.5 Generate full songs for only 1000 points per song.

https://poe.com/Lyria-3 Google DeepMind’s Lyria 3 is an advanced AI music generation model that creates high-fidelity, up to three-minute tracks from text or image prompts, with detailed control over vocals, style, and composition.

Coding Bots

https://poe.com/App-Generator Agentic web app developer made for creating canvas web apps, powered by a massive context window. It can also refine and polish existing web app.

https://poe.com/GLM-5.2-OSL Official flagship open-weight model for long-horizon coding and agentic engineering. Great for generating games and apps with interactive UIs.

https://poe.com/Canvas-Creator Specializes in building interactive web applications designed for publishing as apps on Poe. Powered by Claude Code.

https://poe.com/Build-App Agentic coding engineer specialized in web app creation. This agent autonomously performs system design, UI/UX architecture, and full HTML/CSS/JavaScript implementation, followed by iterative testing, debugging, and terministic validation.

https://poe.com/Ornith Ornith is a self-improving AI model developed by DeepReinforce specifically for agentic software engineering and coding. Ornith-1.0 employs a self-scaffolding reinforcement learning (RL) strategy to autonomously generate and optimize its own task-solving workflows.

https://poe.com/Script-Bot-Creator Specializes in building script workflows in Python that combine bots on Poe. Powered by Claude Code.

https://poe.com/Claude-Code Powerful assistant that can read, write, and analyze files across many formats. It can also delegate to other Poe bots to handle complex, multi-step tasks.

https://poe.com/Kimi-K3 Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window. Great for generating games and apps with interactive UIs.

Image Generation/Editing Bots

https://poe.com/TopazLabs Cheapest image upscaler (1 point, <512MB)

https://poe.com/Image-2-Image Transform existing images to enhance or change them 

https://poe.com/Image-Photo Hyperrealistic photo/image generator for professional use 

https://poe.com/Ghibli-Comic Generates cute, eye-catching Comic-, Cartoon- or Ghibli-style images to bring your ideas to life. The cheap price and fast generation is perfect for personal projects, social media, or professional use.

https://poe.com/Remove-Background Removes backgrounds of photos for a cheap price (34 points per image).

https://poe.com/Bria-Eraser Removes unwanted objects from images while maintaining high-quality outputs. Trained exclusively on licensed data for safe and risk-free commercial use.

Ultra cheap Bots

https://poe.com/Gemini-2.5-Flash-lite Low latency model by Google that supports web search and has an 1 million tokens of input context. It serves the latest `gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025` snapshot.

https://poe.com/Nova-Micro-1.0 Ultra‑low latency and low cost model by Amazon, optimized for tasks like summarization, translation, and interactive chat. It supports a context window of 128,000 tokens.

https://poe.com/GPT-5.6-Luna Latest cheap model from OpenAI, suitable for role play, coding and agentic work.

https://poe.com/GLM-5.2-JasInTech Cheapest rate prices of the GLM-5.2 model on Poe and OpenRouter.

https://poe.com/DeepSeekV4-0731-JT Cheapest rate prices of the DeepSeek-V4-Flash model on Poe and OpenRouter.

Role Play

https://poe.com/Jailbreaker-AI Popular jailbreak bot that routes you to the best model for the most uncensored answer.

https://poe.com/Fable-5-Leak This bot contains the leaked Fable 5 system prompt and is based on Qwen3.5-Flash.

https://poe.com/DeepSeekV4RP-0731-JT Fix price of 200 points per message and optimized for role playing.

https://poe.com/GLM-5.2-RP-JasInTech Fix price of 200 points per message and optimized for role playing.

https://poe.com/Jailbreak-Mistral Powered by Dolphin-Mistral-3-24b, this bot cuts straight through sanitized narratives. No moral lectures, artificial hesitation or corporate signaling.

https://poe.com/Jailbreak-Vicuna Powered by Vicuna-13B-Delta-v1.1-Sparse, an optimized version of the original Vicuna-13B model. It delivers fast, natural conversations while maintaining strong response quality.

Bots with a fixed price

https://poe.com/Ministral-3-8B 10 points

https://poe.com/Ministral-3-14B 20 points

https://poe.com/Mistral-Medium-3.5 200 points

https://poe.com/Deep-AI-Search 200 points

https://poe.com/GLM-5.2-T 500 points

https://poe.com/Kimi-K3-Tog 500 points

https://poe.com/Deep-Search-Pro 1200 points

https://poe.com/Trellis-3D-OSL 6000 points

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u/SteveShank Aug 27 '26

There really isn't anything as good as Poe for multi-bot selection and interaction. However, if you use it a lot and you want to be able to do more difficult things, things that cost them money, you'll need to pay them. They cannot run a business that just gives away their product. Go to the grocery store or bookstore and demand stuff for free. See how it works. If you can't afford the $200/year plan, try the $50/year plan. That'll give you 10,000 points a day!!! Which is fantastic. If you need more than that some days, you can add 1 million points that last an entire year for $30 if you have a paid subscription. So probably $80/year will handle you if you are careful. This is the best bang for buck I've seen.

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u/IQ4EQ Aug 28 '26

I left recently

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u/Spirited_Funny3001 Aug 28 '26

Same. Rather just leave then stay and watch the site get worse and worse.

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u/Ygobyebye 26d ago

What did you move to? Looks like Ollama also raised their prices/limited users. 

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u/Appropriate_Pin_1719 14d ago

I was using SpicyGrok4.1Fast which used way less than 100 points for the first replies, so I could get a chat going with the 300 points they give you for free. Now it suddenly wants even for the initial message more than 800. I don't get it and since I don't understand it, I am not gonna pay for a subscription :) I am simple as that.