What is Poe?
Poe is an AI chatbot platform developed by Quora that gives users access to models from multiple AI providers — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta — from a single interface. Rather than maintaining separate accounts across different AI services, users can chat with any supported model and switch between them within the same conversation.
A key part of this generative AI platform is its bot creation and marketplace layer. Anyone can build a custom AI assistant using a system prompt and a base model, then publish it publicly. Over 1 million user-created bots are available on the platform.
Features & Benefits
- Multi-model chat — access GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, and other large language models from one interface; switch between models within a single conversation thread
- Multi-bot chat — query multiple AI models simultaneously and compare responses side by side
- Group chat — invite up to 200 people to collaborate in a shared conversation using any combination of models and bots
- Custom bot creation (no-code) — build AI assistants using plain-text system prompts on top of existing models; no coding required
- Custom bot creation (server bots) — build advanced bots with custom backend logic and external system integrations using the Poe API
- Bot marketplace — discover, use, and share community-created bots covering tasks from writing and coding to creative work
- Creator monetization — earn revenue through subscription sharing or per-message pricing when users interact with published bots
- Image generation — generate images using FLUX 1.1, Ideogram, Stable Diffusion, and other models
- Video generation — create videos with Veo, Runway, Hailuo, Kling, and other video models
- Audio generation — access ElevenLabs for text-to-speech and music generation
- Real-time web access — select bots retrieve live information from the web beyond their training data
- Voice input — transcribe spoken prompts via the mobile app
- Cross-platform sync — conversations sync in real time across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows
Real-World Applications
Poe works well as an AI chatbot platform for people who regularly rely on more than one large language model. A researcher might draft with Claude for long-context reasoning, switch to GPT-4o for structured output, and use a Perplexity-based bot for real-time web search — all within the same thread. The multi-bot chat feature lets them run all three in parallel and compare outputs directly.
The bot marketplace makes the generative AI platform useful for teams that need task-specific AI tools without building from scratch. A marketing team might find a pre-built SEO writing bot, a social caption generator, and a brief summarizer — each built by other users on top of different base models. Publishing a custom bot also opens a revenue stream for creators through per-message fees.
Group chat extends this AI chatbot platform into collaborative workflows. Up to 200 participants can work together in a shared conversation, pulling in text, image, video, and audio models as needed. A team planning a product launch might use one model for research, another for generating visuals, and a third for drafting copy — all in the same session.
Developers building lightweight AI tools may find value in the server bot option. Server bots connect to external APIs and custom backend logic through the Poe API, making the generative AI platform a viable option for prototyping AI agents or specialized assistants on this AI chatbot platform without hosting model infrastructure independently.
