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Chronos-Bolt (Base)

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205M params | 512 context | $0.5000 input | $1.50 output

Chronos-Bolt Base is the larger high-accuracy checkpoint in Amazon's Chronos-Bolt family. The official model card positions it as more accurate than the original Chronos-Large while remaining dramatically faster thanks to patch-based direct forecasting. It is the better Chronos choice when you want a stronger quality ceiling without moving to the older autoregressive Chronos-T5 stack.

Model Classification

Family

Chronos-Bolt

Type

time series foundation model

Pretrained time-series model exposed on TSFM.ai for zero-shot or few-shot forecasting workloads.

Training Data

Nearly 100B time-series observations from large public corpora and synthetic pretraining data, as documented by the official Chronos-Bolt model cards.

Recommended For

  • Fast zero-shot probabilistic forecasting in production APIs
  • Teams replacing classic Chronos-T5 with lower latency inference

Strengths

  • Direct multi-step forecasting avoids autoregressive rollout cost
  • Strong default for quantile forecasts with lightweight serving

Limitations

  • Focused on forecasting rather than broader multi-task time-series work
  • Less natural fit when you need model behavior tuned around rich multivariate covariates

Capabilities

forecastingquantile-forecastingzero-shotlong-horizon

Tags

amazonchronosprobabilisticquality-tier

Specifications

Parameters
205M
Architecture
patch-based T5 encoder-decoder with direct multi-step quantile forecasting
Context length
512
Max output
1,024
Avg latency
n/a
Uptime
n/a
Rate limit
n/a
Accelerator
NVIDIA GPU
Regions
Virginia, US
License
n/a

Pricing

Input / 1M tokens
$0.5000
Output / 1M tokens
$1.50

Performance

Average latency
n/a
Availability
n/a
Rate limit
n/a