For a Hermes user weighing cost: OpenCode Go's ~6x open-weight multiple massively outvalues Nous Portal's ~1.1x credits on raw inference — but Portal bundles frontier models and managed tools that Go doesn't. Cheapest tokens for Hermes: OpenCode Go. Fullest Hermes-native platform: Nous Portal.
This comparison is maintained by Standard Compute — we sell a third thing entirely (unlimited tokens at a flat price, paced under sustained load, from $9/mo), so we have no horse in this particular race and keep both sides honest. If neither plan above fits because the meter itself is your problem: the full comparison including us →