- Poe introduces a per-message pricing model for AI bot creators on its platform.
- The model aims to enable a thriving ecosystem of developers and innovative bots.
- An enhanced analytics dashboard provides creators with valuable insights.
Poe, the Quora-owned AI chatbot platform, has introduced a new revenue model that allows bot creators to set a per-message price for their creations.
This addition complements the existing revenue-sharing program launched in October 2023, which gives bot creators a portion of the earnings when users subscribe to Poe’s premium product.
A thriving ecosystem of bot creators
Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo emphasized the importance of this pricing mechanism for developers who face substantial model inference or API costs.
The goal is to enable a thriving ecosystem of model developers and bot creators who build on top of models, covering their operational costs.
The new revenue model is expected to spur the development of innovative bots across various areas, including tutoring, knowledge, assistants, analysis, storytelling, and image generation.
Enhanced analytics dashboard provides valuable insights
In conjunction with the per-message revenue model, Poe has launched an enhanced analytics dashboard that displays average earnings for creators’ bots across paywalls, subscriptions, and messages.
The insights, updated daily, will allow creators to understand better how their pricing affects bot usage and revenue. Currently available to U.S. bot creators only, the offering will expand globally in the future, joining the existing creator monetization program that pays up to $20 per user who subscribes to Poe due to a creator’s bots.
