Microsoft Azure Quantum (microsoft-quantum)

Microsoft Azure Quantum is Microsoft's cloud quantum computing service — an open, multi-vendor platform that provides access to quantum hardware from IonQ, Quantinuum, Pasqal, and Rigetti alongside Microsoft's own Q# programming language, Quantum Development Kit (QDK), and post-layout fault-tolerant Resource Estimator. The Azure Quantum Workspace REST API exposes jobs, sessions, providers, quotas, items, and storage surfaces; the Microsoft.Quantum ARM provider handles workspace provisioning. The QDK is free and open source, ships as a VS Code extension and Python package, and supports Q#, Qiskit, Cirq, and OpenQASM. Azure Quantum Elements layers in chemistry, materials, and HPC simulation for scientific discovery, with Copilot-assisted workflows on quantum.microsoft.com.

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• Position: Producing
• Access: 3rd-Party

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• Quantum
• Quantum Computing
• Azure
• Microsoft
• Q#
• QDK
• Resource Estimation
• IonQ
• Quantinuum
• Pasqal
• Rigetti
• Hybrid Quantum
• Fault Tolerance

Timestamps

• Created: 2026-05-25T00:00:00.000Z
• Modified: 2026-05-25

APIs

Azure Quantum Workspace Data-Plane API

Azure Quantum Workspace Services data-plane REST API. Submit and manage quantum jobs, sessions (hybrid quantum-classical workflows), provider status checks, quotas, top-level items, and storage SAS URIs against an Azure Quantum workspace. Targets quantum hardware from IonQ, Quantinuum, Pasqal, and Rigetti plus simulators and emulators. Current preview version 2026-01-15-preview.

• Human URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azurequantum/

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• Quantum
• Quantum Computing
• Workspace
• Jobs
• Sessions
• Providers
• Quotas

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• Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
• Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
• JSON Schema — JSON Schema
• JSON Schema — JSON Schema
• JSON Schema — JSON Schema
• JSON-LD — JSON-LD

Azure Quantum Resource Manager API

Microsoft.Quantum Azure Resource Manager (ARM) control-plane API. Create, read, update, delete, and list Azure Quantum workspaces; list provider offerings per region; check workspace name availability; list and regenerate workspace keys; manage suite offers. Current preview version 2025-12-15-preview.

• Human URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/templates/microsoft.quantum/workspaces

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• Quantum
• ARM
• Resource Manager
• Workspaces
• Provisioning

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• Documentation
• Documentation
• OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
• Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
• Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0

Q# Quantum Programming Language

Q# is Microsoft's open-source, hardware-agnostic quantum programming language. The Modern QDK compiler is written in Rust, ships as a VS Code extension and Python package, and powers quantum.microsoft.com. Q# expresses programs as classical control-flow that operates on qubits without modeling the quantum state directly, and targets every Azure Quantum provider plus the Resource Estimator.

• Human URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qsharp-overview

Tags

• Quantum
• Programming Language
• Q#
• QDK
• Open Source

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• GitHub Repository
• GitHub Repository
• Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
• Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
• Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
• Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0

Microsoft Quantum Resource Estimator

Open-source post-layout physical resource estimator for fault-tolerant quantum algorithms. Compute qubit counts, T-state counts, runtime, and code-distance requirements across configurable qubit physical parameters, QEC schemes, and error budgets. Ships inside the QDK and runs locally or as an Azure Quantum target.

• Human URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/intro-to-resource-estimation

Tags

• Quantum
• Resource Estimation
• Fault Tolerance
• QEC

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• Documentation
• Documentation
• GitHub Repository
• Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
• Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
• Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
• Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0

Azure Quantum Python SDK

Python SDK for submitting jobs to Azure Quantum. Supports Q#, Qiskit, Cirq, and pass-through provider input formats; manages workspaces, jobs, sessions, and target queries against the Workspace data-plane API.

• Human URL: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-quantum-python

Tags

• Quantum
• SDK
• Python
• Qiskit
• Cirq

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• GitHub Repository
• SDK
• Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
• Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
• Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
• Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0

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