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Nous Portal API key setup

Nous Research API portal. Home of Hermes and Dischat models.

Get your key

  1. Open the Nous Portal site: portal.nousresearch.com
  2. Create an account and generate an API key.
  3. Paste it into the Dracon BYOK provider keys — stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM), used browser-direct, works in every Dracon tool.

Free tier

No recurring free tier advertised as of the last check. Usage is billed per the provider's listed pricing — you pay them directly, no Dracon markup.

Rate limits: Ultra: 1,600 RPM

Connection details

Env var
NOUS_API_KEY
Model lineup
Hermes 3 70B, Hermes 4 405B, Nous-Cheatcode 72B

Gotchas

Browser-direct chat is not available for this provider: We haven't verified its chat endpoints yet.. Dracon provider keys still cover it for tools that run elsewhere (for example a LiteLLM chain from the Dracon Router builder).

Our verdicts on this kind of provider

Independent comparisons we keep current as pricing and free tiers shift. A guide is setup; a verdict is whether it's worth setting up.

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