Poe
By Quora
Poe is a platform created by Quora that lets users chat with multiple third-party AI models — including offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others — from a single interface, and also lets creators build and publish custom AI bots.
Definition
Poe is a platform created by Quora that lets users chat with multiple third-party AI models — including offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others — from a single interface, and also lets creators build and publish custom AI bots.
Overview
Poe (Platform for Open Exploration) launched in 2023 as a way to access many different large language models side by side without needing separate accounts or subscriptions for each provider. Rather than building its own foundation model, Poe's value proposition is aggregation: users can switch between models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others within one app to compare answers or pick the best model for a given task. Beyond simple model access, Poe lets creators build custom bots by combining a base model with a system prompt, and in some cases attach additional tools or knowledge, then publish these bots for other users to try — creating a marketplace-like ecosystem of specialized assistants similar in spirit to Character.AI's persona-driven bots, but generally more utility-focused. Poe monetizes through subscriptions that provide message credits usable across the different underlying models, positioning it as a convenient one-stop entry point into the broader landscape of competing LLMs.
Key Features
- Access to multiple third-party AI models from a single interface
- Ability to switch between or compare models within one conversation flow
- Custom bot creation using a base model plus a system prompt
- Marketplace of user-created and official bots for specific tasks
- Subscription-based credit system usable across different models
- Mobile and web apps for chatting with any available bot
- Support for multimodal bots handling images and other input