Poe API

GPT-5

OpenAI’s most advanced general model with significantly improved coding skills, long context (400k tokens), and improved instruction following. Supports native vision, and generally has more intelligence than GPT-4.1. Provides a 90% chat history cache discount.

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Build with GPT-5 using the Poe API

Start by creating an API key, for use with any bot on Poe:

Generate API key

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Code samples

Responses API

import openai

client = openai.OpenAI(
    api_key = "YOUR_POE_API_KEY",  # or os.getenv("POE_API_KEY")
    base_url = "https://api.poe.com/v1",
)

response = client.responses.create(
    model = "gpt-5",
    input = "Python function to reverse a string - don't use any built in string manipulation functions or libraries"
)

print(response.output_text)

See the full documentation for comprehensive guidance on getting started.