Poe

license

proprietary(SaaS)

source

closed

self-host

none

models

multi-provider aggregation(closed)

A proprietary multi-model chat aggregator: the closed counterpart to the open chat interfaces in this category.

• https://poe.com/about recorded 2026-08-13

  proprietary multi-model chat aggregator (no source/self-host), Quora-affiliated

The quantity banded here is monthly active users: "over 1 million monthly active users" as of October 2023, reported by TechCrunch on Quora's Series B, which puts it at 1M-10M users. The widely-quoted 18 million is installs, not users. The same sentence reads that "the Poe app had been downloaded more than 18 million times AND had reached over 1 million monthly active users", and the aggregators quoting a higher band collapsed the two into "18M MAU". A cumulative install total is not an active count, so it is not carried here. No first-party figure exists to replace it: poe.com/blog was read post by post and none carries a user, subscriber or revenue number; Quora's own blog refuses automated access; and every "18M MAU" hit on the open web is a statistics aggregator citing no source, one of which carries an explicit "where exact figures are unavailable, we use estimates" disclaimer. Banding 18M cumulative installs against a scale calibrated on trailing-30-day figures would overstate in the same direction the aggregators already did. This band understates a live consumer product instead, which is the more honest of the two failures: the figure is nearly three years old, Poe has plainly grown since, and confidence stays low to say so.

• https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/quora-ai-poe-analysis/ recorded 2026-08-14

  "By October 2023, the Poe app had been downloaded more than 18 million times and had reached over 1 million monthly active users." The only sourceable origin of the 18 million figure, and it is downloads; the MAU beside it is 1M. Also - a16z said users have created more than a million bots on the platform, and the paid tier is $20 per month.

• https://originality.ai/blog/poe-statistics recorded 2026-06-04

  former source of the ~18M MAU and ~$65M revenue figures. No longer carries the MAU figure.

• https://poe.com/about recorded 2026-06-04

  live product confirming consumer-scale aggregator surface

The strongest pure model breadth among consumer aggregators - text, image, video and audio, plus custom bots - which is high feature breadth without defining the category frontier; the open gateway LiteLLM sits a step below on the gateway side.

• https://poe.com/about recorded 2026-08-13

  multi-provider model access incl. image/video/audio + user-created bots