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Poe API

API service

by Quora

One OpenAI-compatible endpoint (api.poe.com/v1) for calling hundreds of hosted models and community bots on Poe with a single key, paid from the key owner's Poe subscription or add-on points.

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What it does

• Model inference

Features 5

• OpenAI-compatible interfaceWorks with existing OpenAI-compatible tools like Cursor, Cline and Continue through a single endpoint.
• Subscription pointsUses your existing Poe subscription points with no additional setup.
• Multi-modality accessReaches models across text, image, video and audio generation.
• Single API keyOne API key covers hundreds of models instead of managing multiple provider keys.
• Responses APISupports the OpenAI Responses API format with built-in reasoning, web search as a tool and structured outputs.

Sources

Pricing

Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026

"To call paid models (models with a points cost greater than 0) via the API, the API key owner must have an active Poe subscription or add-on points. Free users do not have access to paid models through the API." Plans page: five annual plans from $49.99/year. No recurring free API allowance is stated, so no free model is recorded.

Description

Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026

"Switch between frontier models from all major labs, open-source models, and millions of community-created bots using the same familiar interface." Supports Chat Completions and Responses formats.

What it does

Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026

"Single API key for hundreds of models instead of managing multiple provider keys"; text, image, video and audio generation.

Sold within

Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026

"Use your existing Poe subscription points with no additional setup"; calls spend the key owner's Poe points.

Name

Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026

"The Poe API provides access to hundreds of AI models and bots through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint."

URL

Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026

Poe's developer docs page "OpenAI Compatible API"; the endpoint https://api.poe.com/v1 answers.

Deployment

Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026

Hosted endpoint at api.poe.com run by Poe.

Interfaces

Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026

Called over HTTP with the OpenAI Python and Node SDKs pointed at the Poe base URL; Poe's own fastapi-poe Python library is documented on the External Application Guide.

Modalities

Official documentation · 12 Oct 2026

Page: 'Access models across all modalities: text, image, video, and audio generation / You can also pass in files using base64-encoded data URLs'.

Intended for

Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026

Developers moving OpenAI-library code or tools such as Cursor, Cline and Continue onto Poe-hosted models.

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