NanoGPT vs Poe

NanoGPT

• Occasional users who would rather pay per message than subscribe
• Developers who want one API key for many model providers
• People who want to pay with cryptocurrency or without an account

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

NanoGPT

• The free allowance is a single model on the web; everything else needs a prepaid balance or the Pro plan.
• Pro's weekly allowance covers only the models included in the subscription; others, such as Claude Opus 5.5, are still billed per use.
• Pinning a specific provider by hand adds 5%, and bring-your-own-key requests are billed at 5% of the normal model cost.
• Access is through the website and the API; the pricing page mentions no desktop or mobile apps.

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.

NanoGPT

Hundreds of models in one place

The model directory lists 641 text, 224 image, 183 video, 98 audio and 13 3D models, including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, all used from one chat interface and one balance.

Per-use billing at list prices

Text models are billed at the provider's list price per million tokens with no markup, and deposits carry no percentage fee. Each API response reports the exact cost charged.

OpenAI-compatible API

The API follows OpenAI's chat completions and Responses formats and Anthropic's Messages format, and also covers images, video, audio, embeddings, web search and batch jobs.

No stored prompts by default

Prompt and conversation content is not kept on NanoGPT's servers unless you turn on sync or sharing, and the service can be used in an anonymous session with no account.

Card and crypto payments

A balance can be started from $1 by card or $0.10 in cryptocurrency. Selected API endpoints also accept accountless crypto payments with no API key.

TEE-backed models

Some models run in trusted execution environments, and the API returns attestation reports and request signatures so that this can be verified.

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.

NanoGPT

• Pay As You Go$0

  Every text, image, video and voice model on web and API, billed per use from a balance topped up from $1 by card or $0.10 in crypto. One free model on the web.

• Pro$12

  per month

  60 million included input tokens a week on the subscription's text models, 100 images a day, and 5% off eligible paid text models, on web and API.

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.

NanoGPT

• Other savings

  Volume pricing for large users

  NanoGPT invites large users of its platform or API to get in touch for custom pricing and dedicated support.

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.