ChatOn vs Poe

ChatOn

• Casual users who want several AI models in one phone app
• Quick captions, emails and summaries from ready-made prompts
• People who want chat and image generation under one subscription

Poe

• Comparing many AI models without a subscription to each one
• Text, image and video models under a single points balance
• Developers who want one API key for models from many labs

ChatOn

• The website lists no prices; they are shown in the app stores and in the web app before purchase, and may vary outside the US.
• The free plan is limited to basic chat: advanced models, web search, uploads and image generation all need Premium.
• Vendor pages disagree on the free plan's model: the plan table says GPT-5.6, while the FAQ says GPT-4o mini.
• The US App Store lists the iOS app as iPhone only.

Poe

• Usage is metered in compute points, from 10 thousand a day on the lowest plan to 8.25 million a month on the highest; add-on points are sold separately.
• Prices vary by region: the plans page says the final price depends on regional taxes and currency conversion.
• The plans page does not say how many points a free account receives.
• US dollar prices here cover the two lowest plans, as listed on the US App Store; the three larger plans were shown only in rupees.

ChatOn

Several models in one chat

Premium opens GPT-5, GPT-4o, o4-mini, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.5 Flash and Perplexity Sonar, and the model can be switched to suit the task.

Real-time web search

Questions can be answered from current web results through Perplexity Sonar and Sonar Pro. Web search is a Premium feature.

Image generation and Pic Transformer

Creates images from a description, edits existing ones in the chat, restyles an uploaded photo with preset looks, and turns a photo into a short video.

Doc Master

Summarizes, rewrites, translates and answers questions about PDF, DOC, TXT and EPUB files. Text in a photo can be extracted with OCR and brought into the chat.

Writing tones and ready-made prompts

Replies can be set to tones such as Professional, Friendly or Persuasive, and a prompt library covers captions, emails, resumes, travel plans and similar everyday tasks.

Web and mobile sync

A single purchase applies across the web app and the iOS and Android apps, so the subscription does not need to be bought again on another device.

Poe

Many models, one account

Reaches models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other labs, plus image and video generators, with one sign-in and one points balance.

Multi-bot chat

Compare answers from several models and combine bots for a task inside a single chat thread. Chats can be private or shared as a group chat.

Image and video generation

Creates images and video with generators such as FLUX, Ideogram, Veo and Runway from inside the same app.

Custom bots

Build and share your own bots, with custom knowledge bases if needed. Poe's App Store listing cites more than 1 million custom bots.

Web search

A search mode returns answers drawn from the web, and bots can search for current news.

Poe API

An OpenAI-compatible endpoint reaches hundreds of models and bots with one key. Subscribers spend their existing points on it at no additional cost.

ChatOn

• Free$0

  Basic chat with a standard GPT model, multi-language support and detection of AI-written text.

• Premium access (1 week)$6.99

  per week (US App Store)

  Advanced models, web search, image generation and file and image uploads. A second weekly item, Weekly PRO access (free trial), is listed at $7.99.

• Premium access PRO+ (1 year)$59.99

  per year (US App Store)

  The yearly in-app purchase named on the US App Store listing. The listing does not say how PRO+ differs from the other Premium items.

• Premium (other in-app purchases)$6.99 to $39.99

  billing period not shown on the App Store listing

  Further items named only Premium are listed at $6.99, $7.99, $29.99 and $39.99. Google Play's US listing shows $1.29 to $79.99 per item.

Poe

• Free$0

  A smaller points allowance than subscribers get, across free and subscription bots.

• 10 thousand points/day$4.99

  per month, or $49.99 per year (US App Store prices)

  The entry plan, listed as Basic on the App Store: more messages, more models and each bot's maximum input size and chat history.

• 660 thousand points/month$19.99

  per month, or $199.99 per year (US App Store prices)

  A monthly pool of 660 thousand points to spend across any model or bot.

• 1.65 million points/month₹4,999

  per month, or ₹49,900 per year (as shown in India)

  A larger monthly pool. The US dollar price was not shown when the plans page was read from India.

• 3.3 million points/month₹9,999

  per month, or ₹99,900 per year (as shown in India)

  A larger monthly pool. The US dollar price was not shown when the plans page was read from India.

• 8.25 million points/month₹24,999

  per month, or ₹249,900 per year (as shown in India)

  The largest pool. The US dollar price was not shown when the plans page was read from India.

ChatOn

No public discounts listed.

Poe

• Annual discount

  Save 17% with yearly billing

  Poe's plans page marks yearly billing as saving 17% against monthly billing. On the US App Store the lowest plan is $49.99 a year or $4.99 a month.