---
title: "Nous Portal | Ethical Stack"
url: https://ethicalstack.ai/providers/nous-portal/
catalog_version: f6baff2119d0e9158520da7fbe4232011dac79f25bd08757436d7a1dbd593db2
---

# Nous Portal

Hosted portal for Nous models, inference tools and connected AI services.

Canonical profile: https://ethicalstack.ai/providers/nous-portal/

Scope: Nous Portal service and its own inference payload handling; third-party model providers and connected accounts have separate terms.

Published overall: 3.2; 5/6 dimensions rated.

Round the equal-weight mean of available numerical ratings to one decimal; require at least four of six for an overall score. BDS status stays outside the mean; for eligible profiles, a boycott target caps the final score at 2/10 and a pressure target subtracts one point (minimum 1). Not listed and not checked do not adjust the score.

## Energy practices

Finding: 3/10

Assessment: https://ethicalstack.ai/providers/nous-portal/#energy

Public docs establish the Nous Portal platform and connected model routes route; they do not establish its request-level physical footprint. The Portal supports plan selection and multiple model/service routes; these give workload choices, but no measured resource savings are reported.

Reason: 1 + 1 reporting + 0 electricity + 1 controls = 3/10. This grades documented practices and transparency.

Argument: This practices and disclosure grade covers Nous Portal platform and connected model routes. Public product/API documentation establishes how this route operates and the listed user controls, but gives no measured per-request energy, emissions or water. A corporate electricity claim is not allocated to this route.

Type: argument; confidence: medium

Scope (dimension): Nous Portal platform and connected model routes

Research reviewed: not recorded; evidence date: not recorded

Unknowns: Request-level electricity, emissions, water use, serving utilization and any route-specific clean-power matching are not reported for Nous Portal platform and connected model routes.

```json
{
  "method": "practices-transparency-v1",
  "scope": "Nous Portal platform and connected model routes",
  "components": {
    "disclosure": {
      "score": 1,
      "reason": "Official documentation describes the Nous Portal platform and connected model routes operating boundary, but does not publish a dated quantitative energy, emissions or water result for this route.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms"
      ]
    },
    "electricity": {
      "score": 0,
      "reason": "The reviewed sources do not map Nous Portal platform and connected model routes to a site-specific electricity mix or time-matched clean-power supply.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms"
      ]
    },
    "demand": {
      "score": 1,
      "reason": "The Portal supports plan selection and multiple model/service routes; these give workload choices, but no measured resource savings are reported.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms"
      ]
    }
  },
  "actualImpactMeasured": false
}
```

- [Nous Portal Terms of Service](https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

## Training data

Finding: Depends on the model

Assessment: https://ethicalstack.ai/providers/nous-portal/#training-rights

Portal requests may be sent to selected third-party models; original model training data and prompt reuse depend on the selected provider and any Privacy Mode setting.

Reason: Portal requests may be sent to selected third-party models; original model training data and prompt reuse depend on the selected provider and any Privacy Mode setting.

Argument: The Portal terms cover Your Data and Service Data, including prompts and outputs, and describe use in model training. They also distinguish third-party provider processing. This does not establish the corpus provenance or permissions of each connected model.

Type: argument; confidence: medium

Scope (profile): Nous Portal service and its own inference payload handling; third-party model providers and connected accounts have separate terms.

Research reviewed: not recorded; evidence date: not recorded

Unknowns: Selected model and provider terms, Privacy Mode state, corpus inventory, source permissions, and downstream processor handling remain route-specific.

```json
{
  "method": "training-rights-evidence-v1",
  "scope": "The stated training release or selected model",
  "components": null,
  "routeDependency": "Portal requests may be sent to selected third-party models; original model training data and prompt reuse depend on the selected provider and any Privacy Mode setting.",
  "modelReference": null
}
```

- [Nous Portal Terms of Service](https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

- [Nous Portal Privacy Policy](https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

## Your data & privacy

Finding: 3/10

Assessment: https://ethicalstack.ai/providers/nous-portal/#privacy

The privacy policy allows prompts and interaction data to be shared with model and infrastructure providers and used for development and training. Privacy Mode opts out of Nous payload storage and training use subject to security and legal exceptions.

Reason: Broad prompt-use rights are disclosed, with an account setting to limit Nous processing but provider terms remain route-dependent.

Argument: Nous Portal’s current policy allows processing prompts, inputs, outputs, telemetry and trace data for service operation, improvement and model training, including disclosure to third-party model and infrastructure providers. Users can enable Privacy Mode to limit Nous’s own payload storage and training use; provider handling and operational metadata remain outside that control.

Type: argument; confidence: medium

Scope (profile): Nous Portal service and its own inference payload handling; third-party model providers and connected accounts have separate terms.

Research reviewed: not recorded; evidence date: not recorded

Unknowns: The selected third-party model/provider, their retention terms, and whether Privacy Mode is active for a specific route must be checked per account and feature.

- [Nous Portal Privacy Policy](https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

- [Nous Portal Terms of Service](https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

## Openness

Finding: 2/10

Assessment: https://ethicalstack.ai/providers/nous-portal/#openness

A hosted multi-service portal; it provides access to models and tools but not a self-hostable portal runtime.

Reason: Hosted portal with third-party routes; no self-hostable portal implementation in reviewed materials.

Argument: Nous Portal presents an integrated hosted service and includes third-party model access. The reviewed terms do not provide a deployable version of the Portal service or control over third-party serving stacks.

Type: argument; confidence: medium

Scope (profile): Nous Portal service and its own inference payload handling; third-party model providers and connected accounts have separate terms.

Research reviewed: not recorded; evidence date: not recorded

Unknowns: Nous model releases and self-hosted inference tools are distinct from the portal service.

- [Nous Portal Privacy Policy](https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

- [Nous Portal Terms of Service](https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

## Worker protections

Finding: 1/10

Assessment: https://ethicalstack.ai/providers/nous-portal/#labour

No service-specific worker conditions or assurance were established in the sources reviewed.

Reason: 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 1/10. Documented worker protections; missing disclosure is an evidence gap.

Argument: The reviewed product, API, and policy sources describe the service to users but do not provide service-specific evidence about workers who build or operate it. This is a disclosure gap and does not assert poor conditions.

Type: argument; confidence: medium

Scope (profile): Nous Portal service and its own inference payload handling; third-party model providers and connected accounts have separate terms.

Research reviewed: not recorded; evidence date: not recorded

Unknowns: Contractor, data annotation, moderation, and infrastructure worker conditions are not established for this route.

```json
{
  "method": "worker-safeguards-evidence-v1",
  "entity": "providers/nous-portal",
  "company": "",
  "scope": "The named developer or operator",
  "components": {
    "conditions": {
      "score": 0,
      "reason": "The reviewed product and service documents do not describe worker conditions for this operating service.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms",
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy"
      ]
    },
    "voice": {
      "score": 0,
      "reason": "The reviewed service-specific sources do not describe worker voice or remedy for this operating service.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms",
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy"
      ]
    },
    "assurance": {
      "score": 0,
      "reason": "The reviewed sources do not provide independent assurance on labor conditions for this route.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms",
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy"
      ]
    }
  },
  "disclosureLimited": true
}
```

- [Nous Portal Terms of Service](https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

- [Nous Portal Privacy Policy](https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

## Military ties

Finding: 7/10

Assessment: https://ethicalstack.ai/providers/nous-portal/#military-contracts

No direct military relationship was established for this product or API in the reviewed sources.

Reason: 7 base + 0 safeguard adjustment = 7/10 (0 of 9 safeguard points; every 3 adds 1). No military relationship was established in the cited sources. This ranks above known defense ties without claiming a verified clean record.

Argument: The reviewed terms and service documentation do not identify a direct military customer, contract, or deployment for this route. This records the evidence reviewed and does not treat general cloud access, a model license, or downstream use as evidence of a direct contract.

Type: argument; confidence: medium

Scope (profile): Nous Portal service and its own inference payload handling; third-party model providers and connected accounts have separate terms.

Research reviewed: not recorded; evidence date: not recorded

Unknowns: Customer contracts and downstream uses may not be public; this assessment is limited to the linked service sources.

```json
{
  "method": "military-ties-priority-v2",
  "entity": "providers/nous-portal",
  "company": "",
  "scope": "The named developer or operator",
  "components": {
    "restrictions": {
      "score": 0,
      "reason": "The reviewed service sources do not establish route-specific military-use restrictions beyond general acceptable-use terms.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms",
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy"
      ]
    },
    "oversight": {
      "score": 0,
      "reason": "The reviewed sources do not describe independent oversight of military-related deployment of this service.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms",
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy"
      ]
    },
    "transparency": {
      "score": 0,
      "reason": "No service-specific public reporting on military customers or contracts was identified in the reviewed sources.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms",
        "https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy"
      ]
    }
  },
  "disclosureLimited": true,
  "relationship": "not-established",
  "relationshipReason": "The reviewed product and service sources do not establish a direct operational military relationship for this specific route.",
  "score": 7,
  "baseScore": 7,
  "safeguardPoints": 0,
  "safeguardAdjustment": 0,
  "rawScore": 7,
  "cap": null
}
```

- [Nous Portal Terms of Service](https://portal.nousresearch.com/terms) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

- [Nous Portal Privacy Policy](https://portal.nousresearch.com/privacy) (primary; checked 2026-10-24)

## BDS targets

Finding: Not listed

Assessment: https://ethicalstack.ai/providers/nous-portal/#israel-palestine

Nous Research was not named in the BNC guide to priority boycott and pressure targets or the No Tech campaign target list reviewed on 24 October 2026. This is limited to those two lists.

Reason: Campaign category, excluded from numerical scoring.

Argument: The BNC guide and No Tech campaign page reviewed on 24 October 2026 do not name Nous Research. This status reports only those two named target lists and does not cover every BDS campaign, local group, supplier, investment, or later list change.

Type: argument; confidence: medium

Scope (profile): Nous Portal service and its own inference payload handling; third-party model providers and connected accounts have separate terms.

Research reviewed: not recorded; evidence date: not recorded

Unknowns: Other BDS campaigns and local or partner-led lists may have separate targets; this check does not evaluate broader political or business relationships.

- [BNC Guide to BDS Boycott and Pressure Corporate Priority Targeting](https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott) (campaign; checked 2026-10-24)

- [BNC No Tech for Oppression, Apartheid or Genocide campaign](https://bdsmovement.net/no-tech-oppression-apartheid-or-genocide) (campaign; checked 2026-10-24)

## Reading the evidence

- Assessments are provisional editorial judgments. Cite the profile and the underlying sources, and retain confidence, scope and unknowns.

- Unknown, not-applicable and model-dependent are different states. Missing evidence does not establish good or bad conduct.

- Company-level evidence does not establish use of a particular product or model. Account plan, model, host and route can change an assessment.

- Energy scores describe documented practices and transparency, not measured request emissions. Zero component points can mean an evidence gap.

- Published overall scores require at least four of six numerical dimensions. Preserve coverage and BDS adjustments; BDS itself is categorical.

- No named BDS target found is limited to the reviewed campaign sources and is not approval. Personalized priorities do not change the published overall score.

- Review and source-check dates describe the research, not this deployment. Fetch current primary sources when the decision requires current verification.

Methodology: https://ethicalstack.ai/methodology/