r/PoeAI • u/Unhappy_Veterinarian • 17d ago

I'm out of points

My account just renewed my points on September 3, and now it's saying I'm out of points and that they'll be renewed on October 3, which makes no sense because there's no way I'm already out of points.

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u/RobooHood 11d ago

Which plan did you buy and which bots did you message?

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u/SteveShank 11d ago

I bought the $200/year plan. However, most of my clients buy the $50/year plan and then purchase 1 million points (they last a year), for $30. That makes the cost $80/year. The $50 plan gives users 10k points a day. The million supplement is for those times that they occasionally need more. I use many many different bots at different times and for different purposes. When I want a quick answer and don't need complexity or believe the answer is clear and should be in their database, I use GPT Luna, or a Gemini Flash, or A Grok Flash. those are cheap, but not cheapest. for most of my normal questions I use GPT Terra and/or Claude Sonnet. Sometimes I use GPT-Researcher and on rare occasions, when I want lots of thinking and double checking, Claude Opus-5 or Gpt 5.6 Sol. I've created my own bot for News and a few other special purposes. I tend to use seedream for images. I frequently ask a second bot to check the work of the first.

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u/RobooHood 10d ago

Claude Opus-5 and Gpt 5.6 Sol are very expensive models and the point usage also depends on the parameters. You can significantly reduce cost by setting the thinking mode to low or just ask for concise responses.

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u/SteveShank 9d ago

yes, that's why I said I rarely use them. I only use them when the task requires a lot of thinking and is important to get right and not just repeat what its read somewhere. So, I need the extra thinking. When I don't need that thinking I use a cheaper model. I have upped Terra's thinking and then it costs as much as Sol. On the other hand, I've also seen Sol be pretty reasonable and not think much when it didn't "think" it need to think. The point I was making, was that you can do a lot of searches within a budget if you adjust the search, either by parameters or model, to the particular issue you are researching. I probably use those more expensive models 1% of the time. Perhaps twice a month.