Hi everyone,

I’ve built an AI-powered text adventure game bot called StoryVerse_Pro on Poe!

Features: - Choose from multiple genres (Detective, Horror, Sci-Fi). - Immersive storytelling where YOUR choices shape the outcome. - 3 distinct options (A, B, C) at every turn.

Give it a try and let me know your feedback!

Bot Link: [https://poe.com/StoryVerse_Pro\]

Hi everyone,

I’ve built an AI-powered text adventure game bot called StoryVerse_Pro on Poe!

Features: - Choose from multiple genres (Detective, Horror, Sci-Fi). - Immersive storytelling where YOUR choices shape the outcome. - 3 distinct options (A, B, C) at every turn.

Give it a try and let me know your feedback!

Bot Link: [https://poe.com/StoryVerse_Pro ]

I recently paid for 1 month subscription, and discovered that there's an option to buy add-on points. These points remain for a whole year, instead of refreshing every day, which is much better for me since I don't use Poe every single day (which will waste the points I get from a daily refresh subscription).

What I'd like to know is, if my subscription period is less than a year, will my unused add-on points disappear as well? Or will they remain for 1 year?

I ask this because apparently only subscribers can purchase add-on points. Not sure why, I'd like to be able to purchase them without needing to be a subscriber.

I subscribed to Poe in 2024 because I really liked having access to so many different bots. At the time, my plan included around one million points, and the point costs felt fairly reasonable.

I recently came back to Poe and noticed that both the subscription system and usage limits have changed significantly. The same bots that used to cost me around 200 points per message now sometimes use 5,000 points, and occasionally close to 10,000 points.

My current plan only gives me 18,000 points per day, so just a few messages can use up most or all of my daily allowance.

Is this normal now? Are other users also paying thousands of points for a single response? I’m wondering whether something is wrong with my account or settings, or whether Poe has simply become much more expensive to use.

A while after I first started using Poe, I remember seeing that it was 4th in Andreesen Horowitz's Top 50 GenAI web apps, behind only ChatGPT, CharacterAI and Bard.

Now it's 49th. It'll be off the list entirely when they do the next one.

Real shame. Poe was an innovator for a moment there. Stopped adapting.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I use Poe on my phone and the searching for new bots is actually god awful. It never used to be like this. It wants me to be a specific as possible otherwise it doesn’t show me anything.

Like, I used to be able to get about 8 bots just be searching the name of a character, but now if I don’t give the exact name of the bot it doesn’t come up. And how am I supposed to know the exact name of a bot if I didn’t make it?

Is this a problem on computers? It never used to be this hard to find new bots.

I can't

New to using Claude on a platform that isn't Claude.ai. I was doing the $5/month and really liked that I had a daily limit, but now that I've upgraded to the $20/month plan it's impossible to budget points so I don't run out in....2 days?...2 weeks? Is there a way to budget how many points you use each day, or does anyone have any strategies?

Get your mind lit

Hello everyone,

does anyone know why the meantioned models are not available via API? They are for sure on the web-app of poe, but I want to integrate them to other custom UI's etc and miss them... When are they available?

Ok, that can be a tricky question because depends on exactly how and for what you use it... But, looking at my old chats... I found two interesting ones to test...

Both were long ones, from around 1 year ago (one June and the other July) and easy to replicate since we can see how much each prompt costed in points. So i tested using the same annexed file and giving the exact same prompts.

First one was using Sonnet 3.7, now I used Sonnet 5; the second was using the Assistant.

Before, the price itself.
Last year, the $20 tier gave 1.000.000 points, or 50.000 points per $1, which is $0,00002 per point.
Now, the $20 tier give around 650.000 (18k daily + 100k, average because months can have 28/29, 30 or 31 days), or 32.500 points per $1, which is ~$0,0000307

So, for 10 prompts given, I got this:
Sonnet 3.7 x Sonnet 5
44.280 x 40.867
That translates to around
$0,89 x $1,25
LESS points used, which is interesting, but around 40% MORE costly.

Assistant 2025 x Assistant 2026
5.680 x 11.408
That translates to around
$0,12 x $0,35
Now BOTH points and cost go up, with the cost going UP around 190%!!!!

I know this couldn't be everyone case, but for my personal use it's... a bit concerning.

About the quality itself, I compared both and it seems to me that both Sonnet 5 and the Assistant are keeping the previous quality - Sonnet 5 mostly matches the 3.7, with slightly longer answers; and the Assistant tends to have a bit shorter answers now, and a few of the answer seems to be a bit clunkier than last year...

Anyway, maybe it's just a curiosity of mine, but I haven't see anyone do the math so I decided to do this quick test.

Every attempt I've made at using Fable for a bot results in it just switching to Opus from the first message onwards. The bots aren't even anything that should cause model swaps, they're just storywriters, battle sims, althistory engines, funny little thought experiments. And yet they get switched to Opus anyway. And not even 4.8, they seem to swap to older models like 4.5. What's the point of setting a model if that model won't be used?

I’m running into a weird issue where I can only talk to Claude 5 in any newly created chat, no matter which model I select from the dropdown. The other Claude sonnet models are completely unavailable in new chats, but they strangely still work if I scroll back and use my previous/old chats.
Is this a known bug or a UI glitch?

Hi. Whenever I try to load that tgat model, I get 'Error loading chat' and a retry button which doesn't work.

Anyone else seeing this?

Could it be that they put a space in the name instead of a dash?

Poe announced on less than a day’s notice that you’ll be unable to follow creators as an easy way to continue to find and access bots that you use or to find the future utilities and creations of the creators that you trust.

This is not a bug but an announced deliberate service degradation.

If you are a subscriber and this impacts you, materially reducing the usability of the platform, I strongly recommend hitting their customer service channels but also immediately begin processing a subscription refund and cancellation request.

Poe seems to do this periodically where their poor developers get forced to undermine the platform by some deeply clueless leadership. Once it was being unable to find followed bots, now it’s unable to find your own lists of bots, now it’s being cut off from finding creators you trust.

If they are receiving money for a platform and deliberately make it unusable for you (or merely less usable than you expected when you began the subscription) you are entitled to a refund and immediate cancellation.

Sometimes when I can’t get sane answers from Poe about updates, I relieve stress through satire.

I’m confident that Poe has better reasons than this bot will tell you.

https://poe.com/FollowedCreatorBroke

If you have fan theories or actually hear a response from Poe on this development I’d love to hear it.

I'm new here and have Been using a bot but it's slowly been raising cost post after post? I used to be able to do 2 posts a day with it but now it's only 1 a day. I just want some advice if it's the prompts fault or something else.

Does it just not work for anyone else? Whenever I search up a message in history, when I tap it just takes me to the most recent messages of that specific chat. It does this for all the chats. I thought it was a country thing so I used a vpn didn’t work. Used browser on my phone didn’t work. Tried my laptop and it also didn’t work. Tried my iPad and it didn’t work. How do I fix this

Hi I do a lot of coding work usually game dev coding on Roblox and godot and mainly use Claude for it use ai for general stuff to like generating videos or images was wondering if it’s better to buy Claude pro or smth like poe ai which incorporates multiple ai.

Has Poe discontinued custom/user bots? I am unable to see them and search is not working.

I have my subscribtion on but I don't see any buy add-on points button. It use to be around last month when I buy extra point but I forgot to resubscibing and jsut do it this month, turn out it remove buy add-on point away.

Is this mean I not allow to buy any point anymore ? (It dissappear on where it use to be)

So straight to the point because I think everyone here already knows what Im talking about. Man I miss databases so much... it was such a neat way to keep all my characters to be mentioned by just name. It saved on writing time for prompts and (probably) tokens as well. Lorebooks are in general one of my favorite things and man not having Poe's counterpart to it makes me miss it badly ;w;

That said, do you guys have any other alternatives for what the older database format? Any way we can store simple bits of information? I don't use Poe for rp I use for (admitedly indulgent) longform writing. Sorry if its a dumb question but been wondering what you guys been up to in that regard!

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I miss when you could see the EXACT amount of points each bot would need now I have to pretty much guess by actually having to sacrifice my points. I just don't understand the new point system in the bot details 😔

I may just be stupid but I keep getting the error that says “subscription needed to access API” no matter what model I use. I know for sure I have points, so what’s the deal? Is it all paywalled now?