Cloud access to Heron and Nighthawk QPUs
- Version
- IBM Quantum Platform
- Cost
- Free tier · from $96/min
- Model
- 100+ qubit processors
Alice & Bob · #10 most active of 18 in Quantum
Cat-qubit approach to hardware-level error protection.
Current version
Boson 4
Entry cost
Cloud + partnerships
Changes / 30d
0
The short answers
Source: Alice & Bob (no public source page recorded) · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow
Cloud + partnerships
Entry price over time
Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.
cat qubit
Provider undisclosed
Context window
—
Public API
no
Multi-model routing
no
Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.
green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.
Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.
No public usage figure on record for this product.
Cloud access to Heron and Nighthawk QPUs
Willow superconducting processor
D-Wave
Annealing and hybrid solvers
Microsoft
Quantum cloud plus resource estimation
Managed multi-vendor quantum cloud
IonQ
Trapped-ion QPUs via cloud
No changes recorded yet.
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Quantum.
Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/alice-bob
Tomorrow. (2026). Alice & Bob — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/alice-bob
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author = {{Tomorrow}},
title = {Alice & Bob — version, pricing and model stack},
year = {2026},
publisher = {AlienSquad},
howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/alice-bob}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}