Nous Research Cuts All Model Prices 20% at Nous Portal — Including Frontier Models — to Drive Hermes Agent Adoption

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Nous Research announced a limited-time 20% discount across every model on Nous Portal, explicitly including the expensive frontier tiers, positioning the portal as the default backend for its Hermes Agent. The post drew 1,831 likes and 2.45M views. For builders running agent fleets, blanket frontier-tier discounting from an independent lab is a live arbitrage on inference cost — and a signal that agent-runtime lock-in is now worth buying with margin.