Nous Portal (portal.nousresearch.com) is the unified subscription and developer infrastructure platform created by Nous Research. Built to power Hermes Agent and external AI workflows, it eliminates API key fragmentation by bundling access to 250+ foundation models (from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, and Nous Research), a managed Tool Gateway (Firecrawl scraping, FAL/Krea image generation, OpenAI audio, Browser Use, and Modal code execution), and Hermes Cloud 24/7 agent hosting under a single authenticated account and credit balance.

Running autonomous AI agents typically requires developers to configure and pay for separate accounts across model gateways, web scrapers, browser sandboxes, speech APIs, and cloud servers. Nous Portal collapses these distributed tools into a single authentication key and billing balance, allowing local, desktop, and cloud instances of Hermes Agent to execute complex multi-tool workflows without per-provider configuration.

Subscription Tiers and Resource Allocation

Plan Tier	Monthly Price	Monthly Credits Included	Rollover Cap	Rate Limits
Free Tier	$0 / month	$0 (Free model catalog only)	—	50 RPM / 500K TPM
Plus Tier	$20 / month	$22 in credits (+10% bonus)	$10	400 RPM / 4M TPM
Super Tier	$100 / month	$110 in credits (+10% bonus)	$50	800 RPM / 8M TPM
Ultra Tier	$200 / month	$220 in credits (+10% bonus)	$100	1,600 RPM / 16M TPM
Pay-As-You-Go	Direct Top-Up (Stripe)	Custom balance	No cap	180 RPM / 720K TPM

Core Highlights & Integrated Tooling

• 250+ Frontier & Open-Weight Models: Provides unified API routing to the complete Hermes series (Hermes 3, Hermes 4) along with models from Anthropic (Claude Opus/Sonnet), OpenAI (GPT-5/GPT-4o), Google (Gemini), DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and xAI with Portal-exclusive rate discounts.

• All-in-One Hosted Tool Gateway: Subscribers receive instant access to essential agent capabilities that draw directly from their unified credit balance:

  • Web Scraping & Search: Firecrawl integration for clean markdown web extraction.

  • Image & Video Generation: FAL and Krea suites (FLUX 2 Pro, Ideogram, Kling, LTX-2).

  • Voice & Speech: Whisper transcription and text-to-speech.

  • Browser Automation: Headless Browser Use runtime for live web navigation.

  • Code Sandboxing: Isolated Modal runtime environments for secure script execution.

• Hermes Cloud 24/7 Agent Hosting: Allows users to deploy persistent, containerized agents to the cloud with one click. Instances run continuously across global data centers and connect to Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, or CLI endpoints while sharing persistent long-term memory.

• Single-Command Setup: Works natively across the Hermes Terminal UI (TUI), Hermes Desktop application, and standard API SDKs with a single authenticated session.