Nous Research / Nous Portal

How this was valued: Saturation of the OBSERVED free-plan portal envelope (50 requests and 500k tokens per minute, treated as a shared input+output pool) assigned entirely to output of the costliest current zero-price catalog model that has a paid counterpart on the same Nous API, meituan/longcat-2.0, at Nous' own current listed paid rate ($0.24 input / $0.96 output per 1M tokens, a discounted current price; undiscounted list is $0.30/$1.20). Partial because the limits are observed on one portal surface while another surface says only "Standard rate limits" and no public limits document resolves the conflict; the signed-in account remains authoritative. stealth/ox-alpha, the only other zero-price model without a same-catalog paid counterpart, cannot be priced like-for-like and does not affect the maximum. Assumes uninterrupted saturation with no latency, concurrency, availability, or fair-use loss.