Cerebras WSE-3
Single-wafer accelerators delivering the fastest published open-model token rates.
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Cerebras WSE-3 vs NVIDIA Blackwell
Cerebras WSE-3 (Cerebras) and NVIDIA Blackwell (NVIDIA) both sit in Chips & Compute. Cerebras WSE-3 shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 5). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Cerebras WSE-3 Cerebras | NVIDIA Blackwell NVIDIA |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | CS-4 | GB200 NVL72 |
| Entry cost | Free trial credits available; developer tier has free promotional credits. | Pricing is not published (enterprise/quote-only) |
| Pricing tiers | Developer Tier / Free Trial free | — |
| Model stack | Codex-Spark · Gemma · Gemma-4-31B · GLM-4.7 · GPT 5.6 Sol · GPT-5.6-Sol-Ultrafast · Kimi K2.6 · Kimi K3.1 · Llama · Llama / Qwen / GPT-OSS · Qwen · QWEN 3.8 27B · WSE-3 | Blackwell · Blackwell B200 · Grace CPU |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 9 | 5 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | wafer-scale engine, record token/s on open models, CS-3 systems, training clusters, Wafer-scale AI inference, Cerebras PyTorch, ModelZoo, Low-level SDK | 72-GPU NVLink domain, FP4 inference, HBM3E 192GB, CUDA ecosystem, Second-generation Transformer Engine, Fifth-generation NVLink, FP4 AI Support, Tensor Cores with microscaling formats |
NVIDIA Blackwell
NVL72 rack-scale coherent GPU domains, the default substrate for frontier training and inference.
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