Tenstorrent Blackhole
Open-source software stack and RISC-V based accelerators sold as cards and IP.
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Tenstorrent Blackhole vs Cerebras WSE-3
Tenstorrent Blackhole (Tenstorrent) and Cerebras WSE-3 (Cerebras) both sit in Chips & Compute. Cerebras WSE-3 is the cheaper entry point at Free tier · from $10/unit. Tenstorrent Blackhole shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (14 vs 10). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Tenstorrent Blackhole Tenstorrent | Cerebras WSE-3 Cerebras |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | v0.79.0-dev20260910 | WSE-3 |
| Entry cost | from $999/unit | Free tier · from $10/unit |
| Pricing tiers | Blackhole PCIe Cards $999 · Workstations (TT-QuietBox) $9999 · Servers (Tenstorrent Galaxy) $70000 | Free Trial free · Developer $10 · Enterprise free |
| Model stack | Gemma-2 · Gemma4 · GLM-5.2 · Kimi-K3 · Llama-3.3-70B · Qwen3-32B · Tensix cores · tt-metal / tt-nn | Codex-Spark · Gemma · Gemma-4-31B · GLM-4.7 · GPT 5.6 Sol · GPT-5.6-Sol-Ultrafast · Kimi K2.6 · Llama · Llama / Qwen / GPT-OSS · Qwen · WSE-3 |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 14 | 10 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | 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) | wafer-scale engine, record token/s on open models, CS-3 systems, training clusters, Wafer-scale AI inference, Cerebras PyTorch, ModelZoo, Low-level SDK |
Cerebras WSE-3
Single-wafer accelerators delivering the fastest published open-model token rates.
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