Quora

About Quora

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Quora

All products by Quora reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

PoeAI Agents & Assistants

AI chatbot platform with access to multiple language models

Free7.7/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Quora

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Quora's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.3 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Quora competes with, and how they differ.

OpenRouter8.1/10

The closest direct rival to Poe — both are model-agnostic marketplaces for accessing many third-party LLMs through one interface, though OpenRouter targets developers via API while Poe targets consumer chat.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

OpenAI7.9/10

ChatGPT is the dominant single-vendor chat product Poe competes against by offering multi-model access, including OpenAI's own models, rather than building a frontier model in-house.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Character.AI6.8/10

Competes for the same custom-AI-persona use case as Poe's creator marketplace, though Character.AI is built around role-play companions rather than general-purpose utility bots.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Perplexity7.5/10

An AI-native answer engine that competes with Quora's original Q&A product for people seeking sourced answers to questions, distinct from its competition with Poe specifically.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Anthropic8.2/10

Claude is one of the frontier models Poe resells access to, but Anthropic's own Claude.ai product is a direct consumer-chat competitor in its own right.

3 products reviewed on TopReviewed

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Reddit

Quora's longest-running rival in community Q&A and discussion, at far larger scale and with a more anonymous, forum-style format versus Quora's real-name-expertise model.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Quora's history, with sources.

1. Apr 9, 2024Launch

   Poe launches price-per-message monetization for bot creators

   Quora's Poe platform rolled out a revenue model letting AI-bot creators charge users per message, adding to an October 2023 subscription revenue-share program.

   finance.yahoo.com
2. Jan 10, 2024Funding

   Raises $75M led by a16z for Poe, at a $500M valuation

   Quora's first funding round in nearly seven years, led by Andreessen Horowitz, was earmarked mainly to pay bot creators through Poe's monetization program; CEO Adam D'Angelo said the $500M valuation was down from a prior $1.8B peak.

   siliconangle.com
3. Mar 15, 2023Launch

   Poe launches paid subscriptions for GPT-4 and Claude access

   Quora added a $19.99/month Poe subscription tier giving consumers access to GPT-4- and Claude-powered bots, shortly after those models were unveiled by OpenAI and Anthropic.

   techcrunch.com
4. Dec 21, 2022Launch

   Launches Poe, an invite-only iOS app for chatting with AI models

   Quora launched Poe ("Platform for Open Exploration"), letting users converse with multiple third-party AI chatbots rather than building its own model from scratch, drawing on Quora's 12 years of consumer Q&A-product experience.

   techcrunch.com
5. Apr 21, 2017Funding

   Series D — $85M at ~$1.8B valuation

   Quora raised an $85M round co-led by Collaborative Fund and YC Continuity, roughly doubling its 2014 valuation on the strength of 190 million monthly users and early ad-revenue tests; total funding raised reached $226M.

   techcrunch.com
6. Apr 9, 2014Funding

   Series C — $80M at ~$900M valuation, led by Tiger Global

   Quora raised $80M in its third venture round, led by Tiger Global alongside Benchmark, Matrix Partners and North Bridge, choosing to stay independent rather than sell.

   fortune.com
7. Jun 21, 2010Launch

   Opens Quora to the public

   After roughly six months of invite-only private beta, Quora opened registration to the general public, having already drawn buzz on the strength of its March 2010 $11M Benchmark Capital round.

   techcrunch.com
8. 2009Founded

   Founded by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever

   Former Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo and former Facebook engineering manager Charlie Cheever founded the Q&A platform Quora.

   techcrunch.com