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SambaNova SN40L vs Tenstorrent Blackhole

SambaNova SN40L (SambaNova) and Tenstorrent Blackhole (Tenstorrent) both sit in Chips & Compute. SambaNova SN40L is the cheaper entry point at Free tier available. Paid plans include Developer (Pay-as-you-go) and Enterprise (Subscription-based).. Tenstorrent Blackhole shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (16 vs 5). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

Attribute	SambaNova SN40L SambaNova	Tenstorrent Blackhole Tenstorrent
Segment	Chips & Compute	Chips & Compute
Version	SN40L	Blackhole
Entry cost	Free tier available. Paid plans include Developer (Pay-as-you-go) and Enterprise (Subscription-based).	from $999/unit
Pricing tiers	Free free · Developer (Pay-as-you-go) free	Cards $999 · Workstations (TT-QuietBox) $9999 · Servers (Galaxy) $70000
Model stack	DeepSeek-V3.1 · gpt-oss-120b · Llama / DeepSeek open weights · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.1 (8B, 70B, 405B) · Llama 3.1 405B · Llama 3.1 70B · Llama 3.1 8B · MiniMax M2.7 · RDU dataflow · SambaRack SN40-16 · SN40L RDU	Gemma-2 · Gemma4 · GLM-5.2 · Kimi-K3 · Llama-3.3-70B · Qwen3-32B · Tensix cores · tt-metal / tt-nn
Context window	—	—
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d	5	16
Origin	Global	Global
Capabilities	three-tier memory, many models per node, fast open-model serving, Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU), Three-tier memory architecture, Dataflow processing, Low power inference, Multi-model concurrency	RISC-V cores, open tt-metal stack, Ethernet-scaled cards, IP licensing, Passive, active and liquid cooling options, High-performance AI processing, Liquid-cooled workstations (TT-QuietBox), Scale-out servers (Tenstorrent Galaxy)

SambaNova SN40L

Reconfigurable dataflow units with three-tier memory for serving many models per node.

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Tenstorrent Blackhole

Open-source software stack and RISC-V based accelerators sold as cards and IP.

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