Qiskit
The most widely used circuit construction, transpilation and primitives library.
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Qiskit vs Amazon Braket
Qiskit (IBM) and Amazon Braket (AWS) both sit in Quantum. Amazon Braket shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Qiskit IBM | Amazon Braket AWS |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Quantum | Quantum |
| Version | 2.6.2 | Amazon Braket |
| Entry cost | Free and open-source SDK | Pay-as-you-go pricing based on quantum resources (tasks/shots), classical resources, or reservation rates; free local simulator available. |
| Pricing tiers | Open Source / Free free | Pay-as-you-go / Local Simulator free |
| Model stack | Rust transpiler core | AQT IBEX-Q1 · Aquila · Aquila (QuEra) · Braket SDK · Cepheus · Cepheus (Rigetti) · Emerald · Emerald (IQM) · Forte · Forte (IonQ) · Garnet · Garnet (IQM) · IBEX-Q1 · IBEX-Q1 (AQT) · IonQ / IQM / Rigetti / QuEra · IonQ Forte · IQM Emerald · IQM Garnet · QuEra Aquila · Rigetti Cepheus |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 9 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Rust-accelerated transpiler, primitives V2, circuit library, OpenQASM 3, quantum circuit building, transpilation and optimization, error mitigation and suppression, heterogeneous orchestration | multi-vendor hardware, managed notebooks, hybrid jobs, Direct Reservations, Quantum circuit simulators, Jupyter notebook development environments, Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms, Braket SDK |
Amazon Braket
One API and simulator suite across IonQ, IQM, Rigetti and QuEra hardware.
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