FlowGPT vs Poe

FlowGPT

Come here for character roleplay and to see what prompts real people actually run, not for a curated prompt resource you would use at work. The catalogue is unmoderated, much of the front page is adult roleplay, and the original prompt-engineering angle has largely been abandoned.

Pros

• +genuinely large user-generated catalogue with voting, bounties and leaderboards
• +the free tier covers most chat use without a card
• +prompts and characters run in place, so you can test before copying anything out

Cons

• −no quality control, so duplicate and low-effort entries dominate discovery
• −the useful prompt-library function has been crowded out by roleplay characters
• −no API and no export, so nothing you build here moves to another stack
• −the operating company has rebranded and spread across other consumer apps, which puts the site's roadmap in question

Poe

Poe makes sense if you want to compare frontier models side by side without paying each vendor, and the custom-bot layer is a cheap way to publish a prompt as a product. The catch is the points meter: one subscription buys wildly different quantities of use depending on which bot you pick, and per-bot costs are Poe's to change, so the plan you buy is not necessarily the plan you keep.

Pros

• +One subscription spans models from several vendors plus image and video generators
• +Custom bots can be built from a prompt and shared or monetised
• +Apps on web, iOS, Android, Mac and Windows
• +A creator API exists for developers

Cons

• −Points pricing makes real capacity hard to predict across models
• −Per-bot point costs and allowances are set by Poe and change over time
• −The home page blocks automated access and the subscription page shows regional prices, so USD figures could not be confirmed from the vendor
• −No team or enterprise tier is visible

Does FlowGPT or Poe have a free tier?

Both: FlowGPT has a free tier, and Poe has a free tier.

Which has a public API, FlowGPT or Poe?

Poe ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for FlowGPT is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.