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chronos-bolt-small vs chronos-t5-small
Chronos-bolt-small has 48M parameters and chronos-t5-small has 46M parameters; both are released under Apache License 2.0; at 16-bit, chronos-bolt-small needs about 0.1 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour) and chronos-t5-small about 0.1 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour).
| Field | chronos-bolt-small autogluon/chronos-bolt-small | chronos-t5-small amazon/chronos-t5-small |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Autogluon | Amazon |
| Task | Time series forecasting | Time series forecasting |
| Modality | Time series | Time series |
| Parameters, as reported | 48M parameters | 46M parameters |
| Architecture | ChronosBoltModelForForecasting | T5ForConditionalGeneration |
| Library | Not stated | chronos-forecasting |
| Context length | Not stated | Not stated |
| Repository size | 190.9 MB | 184.9 MB |
| Artifact formats | safetensors | safetensors |
| License | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Access | Open weights, no gate | Open weights, no gate |
| Memory at 16-bit (weights and margin) | 0.1 GB | 0.1 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 16-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Memory at 4-bit (weights and margin) | 0 GB | 0 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 4-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Revision viewed | 2e1597a7bae0 | a971ba21945c |
| Downloads reported by the hub | 5.9M | 1.1M |
| Last observed | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-16 |
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SAVRN's Notes on chronos-bolt-small
48M parameters, 0.1 GB at 16-bit, one 190.9 MB safetensors file: the bolt line is the small, fast Chronos — a T5 encoder-decoder that cuts a history into patches and forecasts zero-shot. The one 192 GB MI300X at $1.85 an hour we list as its cheapest setup is oversized by orders of magnitude; run it as a scheduled job sharing an accelerator, not one that owns hardware.
Apache 2.0 permits commercial use with notices kept and a patent grant attached. First published 2024-11-13, updated 2025-10-30; the card's headline integration is Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, added February 14, 2025 — the managed route if you would rather not operate the endpoint. At 5.8M downloads a month it trails only chronos-2's 6.4M among the forecasters here. Take bolt for latency, chronos-2 for capacity.
SAVRN's Notes on chronos-t5-small
Amazon's own notes point past this model. Chronos-t5-small is the original Chronos, 46M parameters on a T5 architecture, and the publisher says the Chronos-Bolt line released November 27, 2024 runs with 5% lower error, up to 250 times faster and 20 times more memory-efficient at the same size. The original forecasts time series by turning the values into tokens, with a vocabulary of 4,096. Memory is 0.1 GB at 16-bit, and the cheapest host we list, one MI300X at $1.85 an hour, is oversized for it many times over. We would run it wherever a load-forecast service already lives.
Under Apache 2.0 a commercial deployment and modifications are fine, with notices kept. Check two things: no context length is recorded, so confirm the history window in the chronos-forecasting library before sizing inputs, and read the Chronos paper, arXiv:2403.07815, against Bolt before choosing.
Questions
Which is larger, chronos-bolt-small or chronos-t5-small?
chronos-bolt-small (48M parameters) is larger than chronos-t5-small (46M parameters), by the parameter counts their publishers report.
Which is cheaper to run, chronos-bolt-small or chronos-t5-small?
At 4-bit, chronos-bolt-small fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour and chronos-t5-small on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.
Can I use chronos-bolt-small commercially?
Yes. chronos-bolt-small is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.
Can I use chronos-t5-small commercially?
Yes. chronos-t5-small is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.