Poe

Poe's value proposition remains genuinely compelling: for $19.99 a month you get metered access to over a thousand models — GPT-5.5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, plus image, video and audio generators — when subscribing to just two of those natively would cost $40. The side-by-side group chats are the best way to develop intuition about which model suits which task, and the OpenAI-compatible API quietly makes Poe one of the cheapest ways for developers to prototype across providers. But 2026 tested users' trust. The free tier was slashed 90% to 300 points a day, converting Poe from a viable free tool into a demo. Worse, the Knowledge Base feature was shut down with user-uploaded files deleted on short notice, and the refund complaints that followed were handled unevenly — a pattern worth weighing before you build workflows on any single Poe feature. Quora's aggregator also inevitably trails native apps on the newest provider features. Our advice: Poe earns its keep as a model sampler and comparison lab, and the $19.99 tier is honest value for multi-model tinkerers. Treat it as a stateless playground rather than a system of record, and it serves you well.