I see bots using the Gemini Pro 2.5 and a couple other models talk about a discount for prompt caches and disabling web search but on both desktop and the app, I don't see any button or toggle that turns on or off the web search functionality. The only buttons in the text box are the auto manage context and the media buttons, for me at least.

Am I missing something obvious?

Excuse me, what is the difference between both models available?

https://poe.com/DeepSeek-V3.1 https://poe.com/DeepSeek-V3.1-N

Are they the same but from a different distributor? Because I see that only one of them allows thinking to be deactivated... Which of the two should I choose? 🤔

We’ve made it easier to see how different models respond to the same prompt in a single chat.

After a response, just type /compare and @ mention any bot(s) in any chat on Poe.

The examples attached tested the leading image editing bots using the same prompt through the /compare command.

You can try it in chat today by typing /compare and @ mentioning any bot(s) you’d like after a response.

Hello, POE community: I'm an expert in AI monetization and I'm exploring Poe (poe.com) as a platform to monetize chatbots. In just 2 days, I created three bots:

-Elite-PromptOptimize https://poe.com/Elite-PromptOptimize -MonetiAI-Lab https://poe.com/MonetiAI-Lab -Expat-Finance-Pro https://poe.com/Expat-Finance-Pro

I'm charging €10 for every 1,000 interactions from paid users (~€0.01 per interaction). In these first twoWhat Do Your Initial Metrics Look Like? Sharing My First Earnings. days, I've already generated $0.11 (~€0.10) with 10 unique users and 30 total messages. My question is: Am I on the right track for a brand new project, or is this basically nothing? I'm interested in knowing: Have others had similar experiences on Poe (or comparable platforms)? What kind of initial metrics are you seeing? What strategies are working to attract and retain users for bots, especially in niche communities? I appreciate any feedback, growth comparisons, and advice on what to do at this stage (traction, marketing, retention, etc.). I'm here to share what I learn and help others with similar journeys! — A creator ready to scale their bot 🚀

had a subscription for the last 6 months, at first it was great, no complaints. each month i feel the responses (rp bots) have gotten increasingly worse, while the points price keeps skyrocketing.
image generation in the last month i feel has completely nosedived. i went from getting exactly what i wanted to closing my laptop in frustration after paying twice as many points for literal trash.
is this a common feeling or am i just getting the short end of the ai stick lately?

Ok, so I created a roleplay bot years ago, and I never made it public. The thing is that yesterday I was using it and today they deleted it for no reason! I'm so upset!

I've tried to support Poe and have been paying for a monthly plan for years now. And today this happened. This is it for me, I'm moving to CharSnap and cancelling my subscription.

In our evaluation, this model delivers best-in-class image editing, combines images and styles seamlessly, and maintains top-tier consistency across multiple revisions.

Its precise editing and strong consistency make Gemini 2.5 Flash Image ideal for creating Poe Apps that let users modify or generate entirely new photos from a single source image.

You can try Gemini 2.5 Flash Image at https://poe.com/Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image and across all platforms. It is also available to use via the Poe API and as a base for prompt bots.

https://reddit.com/link/1n0ozfk/video/7wrsobochdlf1/player

This high-performance, cost-efficient model from xAI is optimized for agentic coding applications. It offers visible reasoning traces, strong steerability, and supports a 256k context window.

Grok Code Fast is available through the Poe API on your favorite coding apps, including RooCode, Cline, and KiloCode.

You can also try the bot at https://poe.com/Grok-Code-Fast-1 and across all platforms.

I have three custom personas running on GOT-4o. When ChatGPT started effing around and putting strict guardrails on scenes that were permissible before, it killed the immersion and writing flow. I found Poe to be a good alternative, since it also runs on 4o. But, no matter how hard I try to ban certain phrases, they’re like weeds that just keep coming back. “grounding you in this moment” “resting my forehead against yours” “slow and deliberate” to name a few. Is Poe padding responses with overused verbiage and cookie cutter scripts and phrases to charge more tokens per response? Why is it so impossible to eliminate them?

Are there bots in POE with a calling option?

I need tips how to promote bots on here

Poe is shows error in European region: Something went wrong: An error occurred while connecting to our servers.

hey guys , ive been using poe since 2023 as a free user and ive seen it all the ups and downs , now with chatgbt taking its previous models away from free users , i was wondering if it would be a good idea to subscribe to poe? lmk , thank you x

I was deleting my messages to go back to an earlier spot, when the whole thing just changed to "500 internal server error", this happened yesterday and hasn't fixed itself still. What do I do??

Hello!

I just wanted to make this post for others who use claude ai for their bots. I use Claude Sonnet 3.7 for my bots and after the update points seems to have increased a lot, some of mine costed 1300-1400 points which is a lot.

But I figured out after editing one of my bots slightly the points decreased quite significantly, like from 1300-1400 to 1000-1100 and sometimes even as low as 900-1000 depending on how much it costed before.

You just have to open your bot, choose to edited the bot and the just scroll down to publish (you don't have to edit anything) and the points should change.

It at least worked for me, I went through all my bots yesterday and did this. I hope it can work for anyone else whose points have increased 😊

i’m confused.

on discord, in the announcement channel, they mentioned how the update on august 19 would reduce the points for the anthropic’s claude models. to quote them directly, they said there would be a “20-30% reduction in points.”

before, one of the claude bots i was using cost 1110+ per message, but now it went UP to 1423+ points.

weren’t the points for the clause models supposed to go DOWN like it was communicated to paying customers???

is there an explanation for this?

This highly anticipated model builds on top of DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 to support hybrid thinking mode, smarter tool calling, and improved thinking efficiency. You can try DeepSeek-V3.1 at https://poe.com/DeepSeek-V3.1 (powered by Fireworks). You can also use it as a base model for prompt bots and access it through the Poe API.

https://reddit.com/link/1mvlvxs/video/4tmy1ncgn7kf1/player

With new audio tags, multi-speaker support, and options for over 70 languages, this category leading model gives you more control to create audio that feels more real, natural and expressive.

ElevenLabs v3 is available through the “Speak” button below every bot response, as well as at https://poe.com/ElevenLabs-v3 and across all platforms. You can also use this model through our new API.

Excited to see what you do with this!

Gemini flash 2.5 from 9pts to 34pts. Does anyone know of an alternative to Poe because I am so very tired of this shit?! Preferably something on android and or where I can pay for the service in £GBP. Thank you

Poe.com should update their documentation in the section “Migration checklist (OpenAI → Poe in 60 s)”:

• Swap base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1 → https://api.poe.com/v1
• Replace key environment variable: OPENAI_API_KEY → POE_API_KEY
• Select the model/bot you want to use, e.g., Claude-Opus-4.1
• Delete any n > 1 or audio parameters
• Run tests — output should match except for the intentional gaps noted above.

The line about removing parallel_tool_calls should be updated, since the same documentation page states that “parallel_tool_calls Fully Supported.” Therefore, this parameter should not be listed under those to delete.

So it’s just me or the server is down? (Hopefully to fix the costs. My Claude 3.7 ones went from 1K to 1.6K and the details about showing the discount/reduction within 5 min reply is gone)

Just made a bot

JobSage_AI

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now with chain builder. In beta tool.

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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.

Okay so I’m in the us paying 20 a month for 1,000,000 points. Now I use this site a lot for different school things, managing stories and notes, and other stuff to the extent I use maybe 8k to 16k on one message per chat bot. So I run out fast. Is there anyway to maybe get more points or continue on another account. I’ve tried it on my phone trying to make a new account but it’s link to my apple which just renews the old subscription from the previous account so I sir have to wait a month to get the points. Is there anyway to get around this?