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Poe vs You.com

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan
Both have one
Public API
Both have one
Higher Trust score
You.com — 95 vs 90 for Poe
Best fit
Poe: People who want several vendors' models under one login and one bill · You.com: Agent and RAG builders who need a live web index with citations through an API or MCP
Platforms
Poe: Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows · You.com: Web

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

PoeOne subscription across many third-party modelsYou.comWeb search, content extraction and research APIs for grounding AI agents, with a sign-in chat product kept behind the front door.

Side by side

FactPoeYou.com
CategoryMulti-model Chat AggregatorsAI Search & Answer Engines
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at—$0.005/request
Public APIYesYes
Trust score90 / 10095 / 100
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, APIWeb, API
CompanyQuoraSuSea, Inc.
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

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

You.com

Treat You.com as an API vendor now: the homepage, pricing and about pages are all about search, extraction and research endpoints for agents, with a free MCP allowance that lets you try the index without an account. The per-call prices are plain and the research tiers go deep enough to replace a scraping pipeline, but the consumer chat that the brand was known for has retreated behind sign-in with no visible plan, so anyone arriving for a ChatGPT alternative should look at Perplexity instead.

Pros

  • 100 free Web Search queries a day via MCP with no key, account or card
  • Published per-1,000-call prices across search, contents, answer and research endpoints (15 October 2026)
  • Research tiers from Lite to Frontier cover quick lookups through background deep dives
  • Enterprise options with zero data retention, SOC 2 and custom QPS

Cons

  • The consumer chat product has no public plans page; /plans returns 404 and /chat redirects to sign-in
  • Deep research tiers are expensive per call and only make sense in volume
  • FAQ entries on credit expiry and volume discounts are present but empty on the pricing page
  • No desktop or mobile apps linked from the current site

Which one fits

Choose Poe if you need

  • People who want several vendors' models under one login and one bill
  • Creators publishing custom bots without hosting anything
  • Comparing model answers side by side before committing to one vendor

Choose You.com if you need

  • Agent and RAG builders who need a live web index with citations through an API or MCP
  • Teams that want deep, multi-step research calls priced per request rather than per seat
  • Enterprises that need zero data retention and SOC 2 on their search layer

Poe vs You.com: the questions people ask

Is Poe cheaper than You.com?

You.com starts at $0.005/request. Poe has a free tier; what its paid plans cost is not confirmed by us yet.

Does Poe or You.com have a free tier?

Both: Poe has a free tier, and You.com has a free tier.

Which has a public API, Poe or You.com?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.

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