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Poe pricing, features, company info, and alternatives

A factual product page for Poe as a multi-model AI chat app and API platform.

Last updated April 2026 · Pricing and features verified against official documentation

Categories Productivity & Workflow
Starting price $4.99/month
Company Quora
Launched 2023
HQ Mountain View, CA, USA
Verified Apr 19, 2026

Pricing

Current public pricing tiers on file for Poe, last verified Apr 19, 2026.

Free

$0 / month

Subscription

$4.99 / month

Subscription pricing starts at this level and scales with usage.

What You Can Do With It

The main capabilities that shape how people use Poe today.

Brings many frontier models and user-created bots into one interface.

Supports text, image, video, and audio generation models.

Adds group chat and bot discovery on top of model access.

Offers a Poe API with an OpenAI-compatible chat completion interface.

Best For

Who Poe is most clearly built for.

People who want broad model choice in one app.

Builders who want to expose bots through Poe's API.

Users comparing model providers without switching apps constantly.

Company

Leadership and company context for Quora.

CEO

Adam D'Angelo

Founders

Adam D'Angelo, Charlie Cheever

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz, Collaborative Fund, Y Combinator, Tiger Global Management, Matrix, Founders Fund, Benchmark

Headquarters

Mountain View, CA, USA

Platforms

Where you can use Poe today.

Web

Access

How to integrate or build around Poe.

Public API

Yes

Docs

Available

Alternatives

Other tools worth considering alongside Poe.

ChatGPT

General-purpose AI assistant for writing, coding, research, and agentic tasks.

Claude

AI assistant focused on long-context reasoning, writing quality, and agentic work.

Gemini

Google's multimodal assistant across the Gemini app, Google apps, and AI plans.

Product Snapshot

Poe is a multi-model AI chat app with access to third-party bots, image, audio, and video models. It is aimed at people who want broad model choice in one app.

What You Can Do With It

Why It Stands Out

It is built for people who want broad model choice in one app.

Tradeoffs To Know

Changes to this tool page

  1. April 2026 Removed a generic pricing caveat that was not specific enough to this tool after a catalog review.
  2. April 2026 Removed a generic desktop-workflow tradeoff that was not specific enough to this tool after a catalog review.
  3. April 2026 Added a source-backed note that Poe's free tier is limited to most usage, while advanced usage requires a subscription.
Sources
  1. poe.com/blog/introducing-transparent-usd-pricing-and-api-tool-calling
  2. help.poe.com/hc/en-us/articles/19945140063636-Poe-Subscriptions-FAQs
  3. help.poe.com/hc/en-us/articles/19944206309524-Poe-FAQs
  4. poe.com/Help-AI-Bot
  5. company.quora.com
  6. crunchbase.com/organization/quora
  7. poe.com/blog/introducing-the-poe-api
  8. crunchbase.com/funding_round/quora-series-d--fdd54820
  9. techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/quora-cheever
  10. crunchbase.com/funding_round/quora-series-c--97ce0123
  11. poe.com/blog/introducing-creator-monetization-for-poe
  12. techcrunch.com/2022/12/21/quora-launches-poe-a-way-to-talk-to-ai-chatbots-like-chatgpt