# Kronos

> Kronos: A Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets. Added from the trending feed (owner) on 2026-10-20 with 42,042 GitHub stars. So far only the licence comes from GitHub; the other facts are unknown until someone checks them.

- Repository: https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos
- Official docs: https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos#readme
- Checked: 2026-10-21

## What it replaces
- LSEG Workspace: Subscriptions for real-time market data and analytics, Indices, workflow products, capital markets services (partial). Jobs and coverage selected by the owner; other facts still need checking.
  - Use it instead of paying for LSEG Workspace? Personal use: Yes. Business: Yes.

## Facts, with sources

| Question | Status | Answer | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on my machine? | Confirmed | Yes, Python library; download the open weights from Hugging Face and run forecasts locally | https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos/blob/master/README.md#-getting-started | 2026-10-21 |
| Code licence | Confirmed | MIT | https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos#license | 2026-10-20 |
| Model weights licence | Confirmed | MIT for the released Kronos-mini, -small and -base weights; Kronos-large is not released | https://huggingface.co/NeoQuasar/Kronos-small/blob/main/README.md | 2026-10-21 |
| Commercial use | Confirmed | Yes, MIT code and MIT-licensed released weights | https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos/blob/master/LICENSE | 2026-10-21 |
| Paid services needed? | Confirmed | None required; models download free from the Hugging Face Hub | https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos/blob/master/README.md#-model-zoo | 2026-10-21 |
| Hardware | Unknown | Not checked yet | none found | - |
| Operating systems | Unknown | Not checked yet | none found | - |
| Setup effort | Confirmed | Easy; clone the repo, pip install -r requirements.txt (Python 3.10+) | https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos/blob/master/README.md#installation | 2026-10-21 |

GitHub: 42365 stars, 7014 forks, last push 2026-04-13, archived: no.
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