# Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models

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> Published: 2026-10-20 08:17:41.018782+00:00

[Hacker News](https://mistral.ai/news/timestral/)

### Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models

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Mistral’s Timestral models deliver state-of-the-art zero-shot multivariate forecasting at just 5M to 209M parameters, with the 28M version outperforming models four times its size on key benchmarks. For production engineers, this shifts time-series forecasting from expensive, GPU-dependent retraining pipelines to fast, CPU-bound local inference that can be embedded directly into real-time agentic workflows and telemetry loops.

Timestral’s largest model, at 209M parameters, outperforms previous state-of-the-art time-series models on key benchmarks (GIFT-Eval, TIME, fev-bench) while using fewer parameters, enabling high accuracy with lower computational costs. This allows deployment on CPUs and reduces operational overhead for tasks like capacity planning, equipment monitoring, and financial forecasting, especially in domains with limited data.