---
title: "Kronos-Tokenizer-base"
kind: "Kit"
category: "Finance & accounting"
price: "Free"
seller: "Mindket"
version: "1"
url: "https://mindket.com/p/f6f5f41d-5e67-4ff3-9a67-2af453e81117"
updated: "2026-11-13"
---

# Kronos-Tokenizer-base

> The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions.

Converts candlestick price data into discrete tokens that the Kronos forecasting models read. It suits people who forecast financial markets in Python.

Kronos-Tokenizer-base is a kit in the Finance \& accounting category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-13. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself.

Made by NeoQuasar

## About

### What it is

Kronos-Tokenizer-base turns candlestick market data (open, high, low, close and volume) into hierarchical discrete tokens. The Kronos forecasting models read those tokens. It is the first stage of a two-stage design, and a Transformer is trained on the tokens in the second stage.

### Who it suits

It suits people who forecast financial price series and want a ready-made encoder for candlestick data. Quant researchers and tool builders are the clearest fit.

| Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | Quantitative researchers | Encode candlestick history before forecasting with a Kronos model | Preparing a price series for a forecast run |
| Crypto | Developers of trading dashboards | Pair the tokenizer with a Kronos model for price forecasts | A BTC/USDT forecast like the live demo on the card |
| Academia | Students of time series models | Study how continuous prices become discrete tokens | Comparing this 4M tokenizer with the larger models that use it |

Anyone who works with text, images or data that is not financial can skip it.

### Where to use it

- Python 3.10 or newer on Windows, macOS or Linux
- A PyTorch setup on your own computer
- The Kronos code on GitHub, which holds the KronosPredictor class
- The Hugging Face Hub, where the tokenizer files are hosted

| Use case | Who | What they get back |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price forecasting | Quant researchers | Forecasts of future candlesticks from a Kronos model |
| Volatility forecasting | Risk analysts | Forecasts of how much a price may swing |
| Synthetic data generation | Machine learning engineers | Artificial K-line sequences for testing and research |

### How to set it up

- Python 3.10 or newer
- The pip package manager
- Enough disk space for a tokenizer of about 16 MB

1. Install Python 3.10 or newer.
2. Install the Hugging Face hub package.
3. Install the dependencies from the requirements file in the Kronos GitHub repository.

```sh
pip install -U huggingface_hub
```

```sh
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

### How to use it

Download the tokenizer files with one command. Then forecast with the KronosPredictor class, which handles preprocessing, normalization, prediction and inverse normalization for you. Keep your input within 512 steps, because that is the context length of Kronos-small and Kronos-base.

```sh
hf download NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base
```

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| hf download | Fetches the tokenizer files to your computer |
| KronosPredictor | Prepares your data, runs the forecast and converts the result back |

### Example

You hold a recent run of candlestick rows for a trading pair and want to know what comes next. You load this tokenizer with the Kronos-small model, hand the rows to KronosPredictor and ask for a forecast. The card's own demo does this for BTC/USDT over the next 24 hours.

### For newcomers and experts

A tokenizer cuts data into small pieces a model can read. Here the data is candlesticks instead of words. A first small step is to download the files with the command above and then read the card's guide to making a forecast.

Underneath, continuous multi-dimensional price data is quantized into hierarchical discrete tokens, and an autoregressive Transformer is pre-trained on them. The card says this keeps both price movement and trading activity patterns. The tokenizer has 4M parameters. Kronos-mini uses a different one, Kronos-Tokenizer-2k.

Candlestick data (OHLCV) → Tokenizer makes discrete tokens → Kronos Transformer reads the tokens → KronosPredictor returns the forecast

### Good to know

- License: MIT.
- Cost to run: none named. The steps need no API key or paid service.
- Data it reaches: it fetches model files from the Hugging Face Hub. Your own candlestick data stays in your Python session.
- Not for: the largest Kronos model, with 499.2M parameters, is not yet public, so this tokenizer cannot run it.

Size of each Kronos model in millions of parameters

| Label | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Kronos-mini | 4.1 million |
| Kronos-small | 24.7 million |
| Kronos-base | 102.3 million |

## README

````markdown
# Kronos-Tokenizer-base

Converts candlestick price data into discrete tokens that the Kronos forecasting models read. It suits people who forecast financial markets in Python.

Made by NeoQuasar on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its model page and model card; the model's own files and license are on Hugging Face.

## About

What it is: Kronos-Tokenizer-base turns candlestick market data (open, high, low, close and volume) into hierarchical discrete tokens. The Kronos forecasting models read those tokens. It is the first stage of a two-stage design, and a Transformer is trained on the tokens in the second stage.

Who it suits: It suits people who forecast financial price series and want a ready-made encoder for candlestick data. Quant researchers and tool builders are the clearest fit.

```table
Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
Finance | Quantitative researchers | Encode candlestick history before forecasting with a Kronos model | Preparing a price series for a forecast run
Crypto | Developers of trading dashboards | Pair the tokenizer with a Kronos model for price forecasts | A BTC/USDT forecast like the live demo on the card
Academia | Students of time series models | Study how continuous prices become discrete tokens | Comparing this 4M tokenizer with the larger models that use it
```

Anyone who works with text, images or data that is not financial can skip it.

Where to use it:

- Python 3.10 or newer on Windows, macOS or Linux
- A PyTorch setup on your own computer
- The Kronos code on GitHub, which holds the KronosPredictor class
- The Hugging Face Hub, where the tokenizer files are hosted

```table
Use case | Who | What they get back
Price forecasting | Quant researchers | Forecasts of future candlesticks from a Kronos model
Volatility forecasting | Risk analysts | Forecasts of how much a price may swing
Synthetic data generation | Machine learning engineers | Artificial K-line sequences for testing and research
```

How to set it up:

- Python 3.10 or newer
- The pip package manager
- Enough disk space for a tokenizer of about 16 MB

1. Install Python 3.10 or newer.
2. Install the Hugging Face hub package.
3. Install the dependencies from the requirements file in the Kronos GitHub repository.

```sh
pip install -U huggingface_hub
```

```sh
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

How to use it: Download the tokenizer files with one command. Then forecast with the KronosPredictor class, which handles preprocessing, normalization, prediction and inverse normalization for you. Keep your input within 512 steps, because that is the context length of Kronos-small and Kronos-base.

```sh
hf download NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base
```

```table
Tool | What it does
hf download | Fetches the tokenizer files to your computer
KronosPredictor | Prepares your data, runs the forecast and converts the result back
```

Example: You hold a recent run of candlestick rows for a trading pair and want to know what comes next. You load this tokenizer with the Kronos-small model, hand the rows to KronosPredictor and ask for a forecast. The card's own demo does this for BTC/USDT over the next 24 hours.

For newcomers and experts: A tokenizer cuts data into small pieces a model can read. Here the data is candlesticks instead of words. A first small step is to download the files with the command above and then read the card's guide to making a forecast.

Underneath, continuous multi-dimensional price data is quantized into hierarchical discrete tokens, and an autoregressive Transformer is pre-trained on them. The card says this keeps both price movement and trading activity patterns. The tokenizer has 4M parameters. Kronos-mini uses a different one, Kronos-Tokenizer-2k.

```flow
Candlestick data (OHLCV)
Tokenizer makes discrete tokens
Kronos Transformer reads the tokens
KronosPredictor returns the forecast
```

Good to know:

- License: MIT.
- Cost to run: none named. The steps need no API key or paid service.
- Data it reaches: it fetches model files from the Hugging Face Hub. Your own candlestick data stays in your Python session.
- Not for: the largest Kronos model, with 499.2M parameters, is not yet public, so this tokenizer cannot run it.

```chart
Title: Size of each Kronos model in millions of parameters
Kronos-mini: 4.1 million
Kronos-small: 24.7 million
Kronos-base: 102.3 million
```

## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026

- Task: time series forecasting
- Library: pytorch
- Parameters: 4M
- Weights: about 16 MB in F32; about 2 MB at 4-bit (estimate)
- Formats: Safetensors
- Downloads in the last 30 days: 4,130,952
- Likes: 121
- License: mit
- Fine-tunes: 3
- Tags: pytorch, safetensors, finance, candlestick, k-line, time-series-forecasting

## Links

- Model: https://huggingface.co/NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base
- Files: https://huggingface.co/NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base/tree/main

## Get the model

Download its files with Hugging Face's command line:

```sh
pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base
```

Then follow the usage in its model card. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.
````

## What is in it

1 files, 5 KB, downloaded as a zip.

```text
README.md  5 KB
```

## Source

[NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base)

## Compare with similar

Listed Hugging Face models in the same category that share the most tags with this one.

| Product | Downloads, last 30 days | Likes | Parameters | License | Last change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kronos-Tokenizer-base (this page) | 4,130,952 | 121 | 4M | mit | 2025-09-09 |
| [Kronos-base](https://mindket.com/p/d8a7547d-ec7c-4582-b583-e8430ac9bb0e) | 818,212 | 324 | 102M | mit | 2025-09-09 |
| [Kronos-mini](https://mindket.com/p/1ee46a93-627c-414a-a192-89876cbb72bd) | 519,114 | 42 | 4.1M | mit | 2025-09-09 |
| [AI-XAUUSD-Trading](https://mindket.com/p/2b2205f5-8a2c-4c3a-9098-32bfe59ebd60) | 0 | 58 | — | mit | 2025-10-10 |

Numbers as Mindket last read them, from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-13.

## Trust facts

Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions.

- Last change on Hugging Face: 2025-09-09
- First published: 2025-06-30
- Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-13
- Something wrong? Tell us: https://mindket.com/takedown#ask

## Get it

- [Open NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base)
- [Get it on your Mindket account](https://account.mindket.com/account/?product=mindket#/market/f6f5f41d-5e67-4ff3-9a67-2af453e81117)
- [Its page on Mindket](https://mindket.com/p/f6f5f41d-5e67-4ff3-9a67-2af453e81117)
