If you've been meaning to try the Nous Research Portal, here's a way to do it at a discount — and support this blog while you're at it.
The referral offer
- You (a new customer with a new personal subscription): $15 off your first paid month.
- Me (the referrer): $10 in API credit once they subscribe.
The one condition: referees must be new customers redeeming against a new personal subscription.
Your referral link
https://portal.nousresearch.com/r/nous-d3656207
What the Portal actually is
It's one login that fronts a lot of the stuff I use daily for this site and the agent setups:
- A big model catalog (300+) behind a single API — paid with subscription credits instead of juggling per-provider keys.
- A Tool Gateway that bundles a real browser, image generation, web search & scrape, and voice under one credit line — so I don't need five separate accounts.
- Agent Cloud hosting, so you can run a Hermes agent somewhere without baby-sitting a box of your own.
- An OpenAI-compatible endpoint (inference-api.nousresearch.com/v1), so Codex, Aider, Cline and friends can just point at it.
How the tiers shake out
- Free — try the catalog and basic tools.
- Plus ($20) — $22 in credits; the sweet spot for a single heavy user.
- Super ($100) — $110 in credits.
- Ultra ($200) — $220 in credits.
Click the link, take the $15 off your first paid month, and if you end up liking it — the $10 runs back to me as API credit. Either way, your first month costs less.
