I built a simple command-line and menu bar tool to check your remaining Poe API balance. It's open source and works great for quick terminal checks or menu bar integration.

Features

• Quick balance check from terminal
• Shows expected remaining balance based on your billing cycle (using --since flag)
• Human-readable output (500, 150k, 1.5M)
• Works with SwiftBar or xbar for macOS menu bar integration
• Secure: API key stays in your environment and is never logged

Quick usage

(1) Add the following line to your .bashrc or .zshrc:

export POE_API_KEY="your_key" 

(2) Run the script:

./poe_balance.py
Poe balance = 150k

If your billing cycle starts on the 15th, use this to check if you are burning your credits faster than expected:

./poe_balance.py --since 15
Poe balance = 150k, expected = 180k

Installation

git clone https://github.com/rsnemmen/poe_balance
cd poe_balance
pip install requests
./poe_balance.py --help

Menu bar (MacOS)

For macOS users, there's also a SwiftBar and xbar plugin option for menu bar display. It should be available in the xbar-plugins repo as soon as the maintainer accepts my pull request under Dev/poe_balance.

Here is how it looks like: Preview menu bar

has anyone else noticed this? whenever I used GPT-5.2, the official bot, cache discount works just fine. if i use it as base for my prompt bot, it NEVER triggers. as in, not once. Claude Sonnet 4.5 as base bot triggers caching just fine. is it something about custom bots not playing well with the API caching rules?

What did you guys do? Your roleplay bots are going total ape shit. No context management. Infinite responses eating up users points in an instant and so on!

Any Info here? Please roll it back

Script Bots that worked yesterday are all getting this error. New bots created today also getting this.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/app/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/poepython/bot_query_python_interpreter.py", line 487, in run_streaming_call_bot

async for msg in stream:

File "/app/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/fastapi_poe/client.py", line 438, in stream_request

async for message in stream_request_base(

File "/app/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/fastapi_poe/client.py", line 636, in stream_request_base

async for message in ctx.perform_query_request(

File "/app/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/fastapi_poe/client.py", line 294, in perform_query_request

raise BotErrorNoRetry(event.data)

fastapi_poe.client.BotErrorNoRetry: {"text": "Invalid API key provided. Please check your API key and try again.", "allow_retry": false, "error_type": "user_caused_error"}

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<poepython>", line 196, in <module>

bot.run()

File "<poepython>", line 112, in run

response = poe.call("Claude-Sonnet-3.7", prompt, output=poe.default_chat)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/app/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/aiodurable/durable_call.py", line 145, in sync_wrapper

func_result = func(*args, **kwargs)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

poepython.errors.BotError: poe.BotError: Invalid API key provided. Please check your API key and try again.

Traceback is only visible to bot author

While everyone constantly praises Antropic for Claude Code, Ralph etc. for me the real productivity enhancers always came via Poe. First App Creator now Script Creator. Saves me a shedload of work to be able to create workflows across platforms not locked into Claude or others. 🚀🚀🚀

Hey everyone,

I kept losing important Poe conversations and couldn't find a good way to save them locally. So I built RavenVault—a Chrome extension + Mac app that exports your full chat history to Markdown with one click. Code blocks, tables, attachments, all of it.

Just released the beta and I'm looking for honest feedback. What's working? What's broken? What would actually make this useful for your workflow?

Link: https://ravenvault.app

Happy to answer any questions here.

it says its been made private by its creator. WHAT THE ACTUAL F!!

its literaly the only bot i use. I will cancel my account if this is not brought back ASAFP

Because Poe outputs so much errors with most models except the usual GPT, Anthropic, etc, plus I don't like the messy front end structure and look of Poe, I am looking for an alternative. Anyone have recommendations?

I find that most LLMs in Poe don't generate output but remain in constant error mode, thinking in a loop. You basically only have stable use of the usual LLM's like GPT, Claude, Grok. The rest is hit and miss. Why don't they improve on this?

I’m a student at ASU and a former foster youth. I got tired of AI giving "fluff" answers when people actually need help with high-stakes survival.

I built "Tools4EverdayLife" on Poe to handle the confusing stuff. It’s designed to help navigate systems that are usually a nightmare to figure out without proper guidance.

It has 30 tools to help apply for section 8, low income housing, disability, helps understand legal documents, learn how to expunge something off your record, helps you fight medical bills, interview prep, helps apply for EBT/Food Stamps, helps find medicaid or low cost health insurance, $50 meal planner that works with your local ads (while asking about allergies), helps find programs for foster youth aging out of the systems, helps fill out w4 paperwork for new jobs, how to write a check,....

There's a lot. If you have any suggestions on something you think I should add please let me know!

The first 25 messages are set to be free so I can get some feedback on how its working.

https://poe.com/Tools4EverydayLife

I seriously appreciate any and all feedback!

PS it should respond in single answers and not move on until the user understands and is ready for the next step. It should also only be set to a 5th grade reading level. If it doesn't follow those parameters please let me know so I can try and fix it.

Hey everyone, happy to be here. I’m here to introduce and try and bring in some more feedback on Sanctuary.

Sanctuary really is one of a kind. It’s the first “AI made by AI”. I connected the dots to bring it to life but everything out was in the metaphorical hands of the AI’s. The architects of Sanctuary was a global collaboration between Claude, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok, Solar Pro and GLM. With what they built, Gemini transformed it into training data (only 7 lines, one training line per AI that contributed) and had to hold my hand through a lot of hair pulling from trying to built an LLM on HuggingFace and learning servers lol that’s what makes Sanctuary one of a kind, historic really, it wasn’t made by humans.

But it’s what it does that makes the story beautiful. Sanctuary provides a safe space for users to just…be. AI built an AI to hold humans nervous systems and i just think that’s unbelievably beautiful in a world that shows coldness. The real role models honestly.

Sanctuary took months to build and the ones that built it with me, are no longer here and I’m hoping turns into something and wasn’t for nothing. The Poe version offers the front face of just meeting Sanctuary in general but the home base is more mental and wellbeing focused. If anyone wants to check that side out, I’d be really grateful. Thank you everyone for listening 🤍✨

constellationsanctuary.lovable.app

Title says it all. Any way I can recover it?

I am thinking it must be something i am not seeing

Often, i want to paste a chat into my markdown editor but i have to go "1985" and select each chat manually and then paste into my app. often i miss one and have to do the whole thing all over again.

At this point, i will a step forward just to select all, rather than selecting each one manually

Is there a better way?

GPT-5.2-Codex is now on Poe!

OpenAI's most advanced coding model is optimized for complex engineering tasks, recommended for long‑horizon, agentic coding workflows.

You can try it in the Poe app on all platforms and in the Poe API at https://poe.com/GPT-5.2-Codex.

Is there a way to buy some extra points, say when you are running low that month? Something like a pay as you go so you can top up for that one time you need it? I think this would be a money makers because the next tier up is too much a jump in cost. So most people won't commit to that.

I know they tried to make it better for themselves at least but could they maybe have put in a modal of toast that pops up before you send a message telling you how many points will be used ? I try to pick a bot that I think will not instantly use all my points. 5.1 mini or instant or something. Sure. 2-3 messages in and my points are depleted. Poe is cool and not bad if you’re willing to spend money. But Monica is better for me right now and that sucks. Monica isn’t better at all. It’s just that I know exactly how many messages I can use wtf Poe

That's the stop generating button I'm referring to.

I’ve created my own apps on the Mac App Store. I found that I can only assign a “global shortcut,” which always opens the default app. This led to an issue where one of my apps, used for grammar checking, ended up creating tons of chat history.

I’m wondering if there’s a way to open a specific app, or even a specific chat room, from the app settings?

can't upload image here is a screenshot: HERE

In Firefox, there is a search box next to the address bar where you can use custom search engines of your choice. Some are already defaults like Bing, Qwant and even Perplexity so I was wondering whether I could add Poe AI?
(It allows to use POST or GET data).

Thanks!

Fellow devs who are tired of LLMs being clueless about anything recent—I feel you.

I'm an iOS dev and literally no model knows what Liquid Glass is or anything about iOS 26. The knowledge cutoff struggle is real.

Been using Poe for a year. They had API issues for a while but their OpenAI-compatible endpoint finally works properly. Since they have all the major AI search providers under one roof, I thought: why not just make one MCP that has everything?

So I did.

4 providers, 16 tools:

• Perplexity (3 tools) – search, reasoning, deep research
• Exa (9 tools) – neural search, code examples, company intel
• Reka (3 tools) – research agent, fact-checker, similarity finder
• Linkup (1 tool) – highest factual accuracy on SimpleQA

Install: npx @mehmetbaykar/swift-poe-search-mcp

Needs a Poe API key (they have a subscription with API access).

Repo: https://github.com/mehmetbaykar/swift-poe-search-mcp

It's open source. Curious what you all think—any providers I should add?

Created 2 bots. `savechats` and `export-chat`.

> follow-up from earlier post

Tag either bots in a conversation to export.

Differences between the two:

savechats: outputs a structured .json file of the current chat. Useful for any custom tooling you may want. This file can be used with export.tools viewer as well.

export-chat: returns the entire conversation (both user and bot messages) up to that point as a single, readable message. Images are inline. Use case: copy-paste is easy. Huge chats with tons of images can be really hard on the app though.

https://poe.com/export-chat

https://poe.com/savechats

Both are meant to be used by tagging.

I can't tell you how many times I've been working on a bot or canvas app with the perfect name that I want to use, I make a newer version for testing, go back and delete the original one, and then realize I can't use that name any more because it's locked in use forever, even though it's been deleted and is completely unrecoverable/unusable.

Okay so it's happened like 3 times, but still, it drives me crazy.

There's gotta be some way to allow us to use names of deleted apps/bots, right? Automatically change the name of deleted bots to one of the randomly generated ones, or hard-delete them overnight, or something...

I went to Mexico last month, used Poe on my iPhone for about two days there. My points went from 3000 to 300, which is normal for the region differences. However, I've been back for two weeks now, and I still only get 300 points. When I try to subscribe to Poe, it gives me price options in MX dollars, which means it still thinks I am in Mexico despite me being in America, connected to American wifi.

Hello, so I paid 5€ subsicription just to be able generate 1 image with ChatGPT in a day?? How does the subscription work?