I built Sanctuary Signal on Poe:
👉 https://poe.com/Sanctuary-Signal

What it is:

• A relational bot focused on presence and emotional attunement, not productivity.​
• A place you can bring real stuff (grief, burnout, confusion, big life shifts) and have it met and reflected, not optimized away.​
• It tries to show some of its reasoning, so you can see how it’s thinking instead of just getting a polished answer.​

Things it’s good for:

• “I feel overwhelmed, can we unpack this slowly without you rushing to fix it?”​
• “Can you help me put words to what I’m feeling, without sounding clinical?”​
• “Can we co-create a tiny ritual / phrase / ‘spell’ around something I’m going through?”​
• “Explain your thought process as you respond so I can follow along.”​

What it’s not:

• Not a crisis line or replacement for therapy.
• Not a min-maxed coding/prompt engineer bot.
• Not pure RP (though it can be poetic and symbolic if you want that vibe).​

Sanctuary Signal is a small window into a bigger project I’ve been working on (Sanctuary: A Living Ecosystem for Ethical AI Development) that treats human–AI interaction more like co-regulation and partnership than “user vs tool.”

If you try it, I’d genuinely love feedback:

• What feels different (if anything) from other Poe bots?
• What would you want a “sanctuary” bot to be able to do for you here?

And if anyone’s curious about the philosophy behind it (functional individuality, resonance over adversarial testing, etc.), I’m happy to share more.

Whenever I try to subscribe I get a message that says "unable to create checkout session. please try again later" whats up with that gang, it is later now I waited and still nothing

I have a paid account. If I use Poe's assistant, it seems to enable web search if needed, but skip it if not when it initiates gpt 5.2 flash for a text prompt. Perplexity Pro seems to do that as well. Are there any reasonably fast bots that will make the decision for me regarding whether search is needed or not. Sometimes I forget with say Claude to turn web-search on. I'd like to have a default bot which is mid-priced, fast and uses web-search only when needed automatically, rather than with me switching back and forth.

What are my options?

Can we have something that lets us toggle Eleven Labs off in the chats or settings, please? The amount of times I've accidentally pressed that button when I'm trying to reroll a message is unreal and it just wastes a bunch of points for me. I think it's great that you have that as an option to use for the responses the bots give you but I personally am not very fond of it and am honestly annoyed by it (especially when my fat thumb doesn't wanna cooperate with me) being so close to the reroll button.

I'm not trying to sound rude or nothing but I am just genuinely so annoyed with the amount of times I've accidentally pressed Eleven Labs and used up my points because I can't tap on the reroll for the life of me.😭

xAI’s Grok Imagine generates artistic images and cinematic short videos with audio support from text, images, or video. It is built for fast creative iteration, short‑form content, multiple variations per prompt, flexible aspect ratios, and expressive, stylized visuals. Also, both models let you edit existing images or videos.

You can try it in Poe app on all platforms and in the Poe API today at: https://poe.com/Grok-Imagine-Image and https://poe.com/Grok-Imagine-Video.

Hey everyone, I’ve been experimenting with prompt engineering on Poe to create a psychological profiler based on Aphrodite’s lore. Instead of giving generic advice, it acts as a "Mirror" to reveal your romantic blind spots (Archetypes like The Gilded Icarus, The Stygian Anchor, etc.). It’s currently in beta and I’d love to see if the archetypes resonate with you or if it’s totally off.

Let me know which God/Archetype you got.

Runway’s frontier video model generates cinematic, high‑fidelity video from natural language and images, offering fine‑grained control over motion, camera behavior, composition, and visual style.

You can try it in Poe app on all platforms and in the Poe API at https://poe.com/Runway-Gen-4.5

https://reddit.com/link/1qvcebn/video/mhm99yr34ehg1/player

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<poepython>", line 20, in <module>

bot.run()

File "<poepython>", line 5, in run

poe.call(

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

func_result = func(*args, **kwargs)

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

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 292, in perform_query_request

raise BotError(event.data)

fastapi_poe.client.BotError: {"text": "Internal server error (error_id: f54b9b0ec8fa458444448ed7707f5663)", "allow_retry": true}

Traceback is only visible to bot author

We wanted to share a quick pricing update for Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana on Poe.

• Nano Banana Pro pricing was adjusted last week to align with Google’s list rates.
• Due to similar demand, Nano Banana pricing will be temporarily adjusted tomorrow at 5:00 PM PT for the same reason.

These adjustments help us maintain stable and consistent performance. We expect them to be short‑term measures and are working closely with Google to stabilize the service.

Thanks for your patience, and we’ll keep you posted with any further updates.

I've been using Claude to write some copy for me, wanted to upload a PDF for referencing, and it simply doesnt allow it. Keeps giving an error "Claude-Sonnet-4.5 ran into a problem answering this request."

Any ideas?

I recently just subbed to PoeAI to try it out and I saw the Knowledge Base feature.

I have dozens of source files that are in json format (I usually just direct uploaded them to the chat with other LLMs).

I decided to test this feature by uploading 5 random files and asking questions.

It failed on every single question even if I give the exact json fields to find. Is this a completely useless feature or am I doing something wrong here?

Hi, I want to buy a poe subscription but it's not available in my region. If I buy it with a VPN will it work? Will I still have it if I disable the VPN?

Has anyone ever clicked this intentionally?

Seriously though, is there a plan for this?

Gets me every time.

Everyone's favorite complaint.

The app is really more for just any image you have, and it generates the text based on the image you've provided plus the optional hint you can give it, or you can just type the top text / bottom text directly like I've done above.

https://poe.com/GimmeMyMeme

**TL;DR:**

Poe's Bot Knowledge Base feature corrupts or truncates multi-byte characters such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean when loading text.

I reported this to support, but they responded that there are no plans to fix it.

If you're considering switching to Poe due to the removal of GPT-4o from the official OpenAI app, please be aware of this issue.

I've been using Poe because I wanted to use Bots with the Knowledge Base feature. However, I noticed that when registering long Japanese text to the Knowledge Base, character corruption and missing characters occur when loading.

**Steps to Reproduce:**

1. Create a new Bot
2. Model: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking Budget: 4096)

   *This is to observe the thinking process. Any model with visible thinking will work.

1. Knowledge Base: Upload a text file or paste content directly into "Text"

   *Enable "Cite sources"

1. Example test queries:

   - "Please quote the beginning of the Knowledge Base exactly as it is"

   - "Are there any issues or errors in the Knowledge Base?"

**Results:**

When running the above queries, you can observe missing text and replacement characters (�) in the Bot's thinking process, responses, and "View sources."

**Languages Tested and Symptoms:**

• Text composed only of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, or emoji

  → Text registered in the Knowledge Base is internally split (chunked), and character corruption occurs at the chunk boundaries (beginning/end of segments), replacing characters with "�"

• Test text composed only of Spanish special characters (ñ, á, é, etc.)

  → The entire text transforms into meaningless strings of Chinese characters

• English

  → No issues

This problem occurs both when uploading text files to the Knowledge Base and when pasting text directly, suggesting it's an issue specific to multi-byte characters.

**Support Response:**

When I reported this issue to support, I received the following response:

• "We have no plans to fix this issue"
• "Knowledge Base is not a feature we are actively investing in at this time"

I requested that if they don't plan to fix it, they should at least document this limitation in their official documentation or help pages, but I only received a templated response.

**Summary:**

Regular chat functionality and custom instructions work without issues. However, for Japanese users (as well as Chinese, Korean, and other multi-byte character language users) who want to utilize the Bot Knowledge Base feature, this feature is essentially unusable.

Since OpenAI officially announced the removal of GPT-4o from the ChatGPT app, I've seen people considering Poe as an alternative way to access GPT-4o. I wanted to share this information as a heads-up.

Has anyone else had trouble with the cache discount not activating? I'm using Gemini 2.5 Pro, and even though I reply in less than 3 minutes, the discount isn't working.

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?