Poe
Genuinely free to build, publish, and run a bot/agent on a recurring daily free-points quota — but the free budget is now very small (~300 points/day)
- Card required
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Poe scores 4.8/10 for free value in Agents. The main constraint: Free to create and publish bots (prompt / server / script / API bots) with a regular Poe account, no subscription. Bots run on a shared daily free compute-points budget that resets every 24h and does not roll over. As of ~March 30, 2026 the daily free allocation is ~300 points/day in most markets (c.
Free value score
4.8 / 10Show the math
Key metrics
What you get
Free to create and publish bots (prompt / server / script / API bots) with a regular Poe account, no subscription. Bots run on a shared daily free compute-points budget that resets every 24h and does not roll over. As of ~March 30, 2026 the daily free allocation is ~300 points/day in most markets (c
Sign up free at poe.com (no card). Create a bot via poe.com/create_bot (prompt bot) or poe.com/create_bot?api=1 (API/server bot), or a Pytho
Gotchas
- 300 points/day
Free to create and publish bots (prompt / server / script / API bots) with a regular Poe account, no subscription. Bots run on a shared daily free compute-points budget that resets
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"Starting March 30, 2026, the daily free point allocation will be 300 points in most markets. Once you've used your daily free points, you'll need an active subscription to continue chatting for the rest of the day. Your points reset every 24 hours"
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoeAI/comments/1s5t8c3/how_do_we_get_absolutely_everyone_off_our_platform/ -
"Throughout Poe, you will also see the approximate cost of pre-purchasing those points at a rate of $30 per 1M points. Non-paying users receive points daily, which reset at the end of each 24-hour period. Points do not roll over."
https://help.poe.com/hc/en-us/articles/19944206309524-Poe-FAQs -
"On approximately March 30, 2026, Poe reduced the daily free compute points allowance from 3,000 to 300 — a reduction of 90%. The change was rolled out globally"
https://carletontorpin.com/ai/poe-ai-compute-points-explained/ -
"creators have built 1M+ bots on Poe the platform ... Currently, Poe is one of the top 5 largest generative AI-related properties"
https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-quora-and-poe/
