# Cola2 vs Kronos (slim)

> Kronos scores 55.2 (C) to Cola2's 33.9 (F) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Kronos scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Cola2's 33.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Cola2: F 33.9, rank #160 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2.min.md
- Kronos: C 55.2, rank #122 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kronos.min.md
- Cola2, good for Researchers working on latent or diffusion language models who want a checkpoint to study
- Kronos, good for Agents that need a quick local forecast or synthetic sample of a candlestick series on modest hardware, for research or as one input among others. Ahead on Reach, 55 against 25; Risk, 50 against 40; Agent interface, 60 against 20.

| Category | Cola2 | Kronos |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 25 | 55 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 50 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 58 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cola2 | Kronos |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ByteDance (Seed) | Yu Shi (shiyu-coder, NeoQuasar), Tsinghua University |
| Licence | None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) | MIT |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-04-13 |
| Popularity | none | 43k stars |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, Kronos +40: Cola2 20 (Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer.); Kronos 60 (Read for a forecasting model, the tool-calling, trained tool calling and structured-output lines stand for what it takes and returns.)
- Reach, Kronos +30: Cola2 25 (Memory 15, the only build is the F32 safetensors set, 35.07 GB, and 35.07 GB × 1.2 = 42.1 GB, within 64 GB.); Kronos 55 (Memory 30, the publisher's Kronos-mini with its tokeniser is 0.03 GB and even Kronos-base is 0.43 GB in FP32. Runtimes 0, it runs only through the publisher's o…)
- Risk, Kronos +10: Cola2 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); Kronos 50 (File safety 15, safetensors only, but the only documented loading path is the publisher's Python package in place of a runtime.)