Cronformer

Jan 10, 2026Shukant Pal

Try Cronformer out today here.

Cronformer is a small transformer model that can translate English sentences into Cron expressions. It uses Gemma-270M as the pretrained base and has a specialized decoder head architecture to enable blazing fast non-autoregressive inference. It is trained on a synthetic dataset with more than 10M examples.

If your software requires Cron to define task schedules, you can use Cronformer to let non-technical users define their schedules in plain English. For API keys, reach out to me here.