Failover swaps to a backup model mid-chat without losing the conversation. Set it up before the outage. Every entry needs both a provider and a model.
When your model hits a rate limit, the chat keeps going on a backup instead of dying mid-task.
Nous Portal's free tier plugs straight into Hermes. One command switches providers, with no API key or billing to set up, so you can try any of the eleven models on a real task.
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Step 5 Preview is available free on Nous Portal for a limited time. The model features a 1M-token context window with vision capabilities, enabling evaluation of high-capacity performance at no cost.
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Gemma 4 12B through LM Studio, Honcho for memory, Telegram for remote access, and one Mac setting so it never sleeps. Daily AI news lands in Telegram.
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