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Poe bot knowledge bases
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- Free allowance
- 5 GB or 30 million characters per knowledge base, combined across all sources of one bot.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampeddeleted within 24 hours
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 5 GB or 30 million characters per knowledge base, combined across all sources of one bot. One knowledge base per bot. unit GB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) deleted within 24 hours source
- write-gated review before being permanently deleted' source
per-knowledge-base-cap 5 GB / 30M chars. Uploads to temporary chats are 'retained for up to 15 days for safety review before being permanently deleted'; regular chats' files are 'permanently deleted within 24 hours of creation'. |
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| Identity | email email |
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| Egress | No egress concept; bot answers are served by Poe. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | Uploads to temporary chats are 'retained for up to 15 days for safety review before being permanently deleted'; regular chats' files are 'permanently deleted within 24 hours of creation'. (1 days) |
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| Interface | unknown Creator UI + poe-api-wrapper (unofficial); server bots can accept attachments via allow_attachments |
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| Tooling | poe-api-wrapper (unofficial Python), fastapi_poe for server bots |
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| Composes with | 5 GB per bot, and bot creation is free and effectively unbounded, so each bot holds the same 5 GB allowance. That is the only axis on which the total grows, and it is a manual, per-bot upload loop. |
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| Reliability | The read path is the bot's own retrieval, and no export of the uploaded corpus is documented. Rate limits differ per model. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- retention-clamped 24 hours
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Evidence 3
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "5 GB or 30 million characters per knowledge base, combined across all sources of one bot. One knowledge base per bot.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read