Alternatives to Poe
A chat platform from Quora that gives access to several AI models in one place. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Poe
A chat platform from Quora that gives access to several AI models in one place.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Poe.
HuggingChat
Hugging Face's chat app for talking to a choice of hosted open-source AI models.
HuggingChat is free and offers a choice of hosted open-source models with automatic selection, instead of commercial models and custom shareable bots.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation.
ChatGPT is OpenAI's single assistant for writing, coding, analysis and images, rather than a hub for several providers' models.
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with a large context window.
Claude is Anthropic's assistant with a large context window and Artifacts panel, offering one provider's models instead of several in one interface.
Google Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant, formerly Bard, integrated with other Google services.
Google Gemini is a multimodal assistant integrated with Google services, limited to Google's models rather than several providers.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI chat assistant for conversation, answers from the web and creative tasks.
Microsoft Copilot is a browser assistant with answers drawn from the web, offering Microsoft's service instead of a choice among many models.
Le Chat
Mistral AI's chat assistant, a multilingual AI chatbot from a European developer.
Le Chat is Mistral AI's multilingual chatbot from a European developer, limited to Mistral's models with prompts processed on its servers.
TypingMind
A chat interface for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other language models that runs on your own API keys.
TypingMind is a paid chat interface for models from several providers using your own API keys, billed per use by each provider instead of a Poe plan.
Monica
An AI assistant for chat, writing, summarizing and translation, available as an extension and app.
Monica puts several AI model families in a sidebar on any webpage, with PDF, translation and summary tools. It adds desktop, mobile and extension apps.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Poe as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
BoltAI
A native macOS AI chat app that works with many cloud providers and local models.
Poe gives access to several AI models in one web interface without your own provider keys, but runs only online with no local model support.
Character.AI
A chat app for role-play conversations with AI characters, fictional personas and custom creations.
Poe gives access to several AI models in one interface and lets users create and share custom bots, but has no dedicated role-play character catalogue.
Google AI Studio
A web workspace for trying Google's Gemini models and getting API keys for the Gemini API.
Poe gives access to several AI models in one chat interface with shareable custom bots, but lacks Google's API key management and developer SDKs.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Perplexity
An AI answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources.
Coze
An AI agent platform for building assistants, automating workflows and producing office documents.
Meta AI
Meta's free AI chat assistant, powered by Llama and built into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
