Looking for a free alternative to TimesFM (Google Research)? Here are 9 notable open models worth trying — 9 with a free tier. TimesFM (Google Research) itself is free.
| Tool | TimesFM (Google Research) (you searched) | Qwen (Alibaba) | DeepSeek Models | Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | free | free | free | free |
| Best for | Pretrained decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting | Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0 | DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed | Open-weight Mistral Medium 3.5, Small 4 and Large 3 general models |
| Visit | Open ↗ | Open ↗ | Open ↗ | Open ↗ |
Qwen (Alibaba) is the closest free alternative to TimesFM (Google Research): same Notable Open Models sub-category, and it is free. Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0
Yes — 9 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: Qwen (Alibaba), DeepSeek Models, Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral), OLMo (Ai2), Hunyuan (Tencent). None of them are paid-only.
TimesFM (Google Research) is free. There is no paid plan attached to it in the catalog.
They are the other tools in Notable Open Models, then the rest of AI Models & Local Execution, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.
✦ WhyA TimesFM (Google Research) alternative — Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0.
✦ WhyA TimesFM (Google Research) alternative — DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed.
✦ WhyA TimesFM (Google Research) alternative — Open-weight Mistral Medium 3.5, Small 4 and Large 3 general models.
✦ WhyA TimesFM (Google Research) alternative — Only major model family shipping full pretraining data (Dolma), code and intermediate checkpoints, not just weights.
✦ WhyA TimesFM (Google Research) alternative — Open-weight Hunyuan Hy3 and Hy4-preview flagship text models.
✦ WhyA TimesFM (Google Research) alternative — Falcon-H1 hybrid Transformer-Mamba family for efficient long-context inference.
✦ WhyA TimesFM (Google Research) alternative — MiniMax's open-weight M-series: M3 multimodal MoE with very long context, plus M2.x agentic-coding checkpoints.
✦ WhyA TimesFM (Google Research) alternative — MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1T parameters) and V2.6-Flash (311B) open-weight reasoning and agent models.
✦ WhyA TimesFM (Google Research) alternative — Step-3.7-Flash open multimodal model with FP8, NVFP4 and GGUF builds.