aid: ionq
name: IonQ Quantum Cloud Plans and Pricing
description: |
  Commercial offerings for the IonQ Quantum Cloud. Public IonQ pricing is offered in three
  high-level tiers and an academic research credit program. QPU pricing is volume-based and quoted
  per-shot / per-task; precise USD figures are negotiated and not published on the marketing site.
  Partner clouds (AWS Braket, Azure Quantum, Google Cloud) list their own task and shot pricing.
version: '0.1'
specificationVersion: '0.1'
source:
  - https://ionq.com/quantum-cloud
  - https://docs.ionq.com/user-manual/accounts
plans:
  - id: free
    name: Free
    description: Sign-up tier for early exploration. Includes IonQ simulator access (up to 29 qubits) and
      onboarding documentation. No QPU access.
    audience: developer
    pricing:
      type: free
      currency: USD
    entitlements:
      - IonQ Simulator (ideal and noisy, up to 29 qubits)
      - Quantum Cloud Console access
      - Project API keys
      - Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane, qBraid, CUDA-Q integrations
      - Community Slack
      - Email support
    limits:
      - QPU access disabled
  - id: volume-based
    name: Volume-Based (QPU Access)
    description: Pay-per-use QPU access for advanced workflows. Volume-based pricing quoted to the customer;
      cost reporting available via /jobs/{id}/cost and /organizations/{id}/usage.
    audience: business
    pricing:
      type: usage
      metric: shots
      currency: USD
      contact: sales
    entitlements:
      - On-demand access to qpu.aria-1, qpu.aria-2, qpu.forte-1
      - Per-job /cost and /estimate endpoints
      - Sessions API (beta) with per-session cost/duration/job-count limits
      - Error mitigation via symmetric debiasing
      - Hosted hybrid service
      - Q-CTRL Fire Opal QAOA integration
  - id: custom
    name: Enterprise / Custom
    description: Negotiated reserved-time and on-premises offerings. Reserved blocks of QPU time, Forte
      Enterprise on-prem rack-mounted system, and dedicated applications team support.
    audience: enterprise
    pricing:
      type: custom
      contact: sales
    entitlements:
      - Reserved QPU time blocks
      - Forte Enterprise on-premises system
      - Dedicated applications team
      - SAML SSO and organization-level role management
      - Volume discounts
      - Premium support SLAs
  - id: research-credits
    name: IonQ Research Credits
    description: Up to $10,000 in QPU access credits for eligible academic researchers and universities.
    audience: academic
    pricing:
      type: credit
      currency: USD
      maximum: 10000
    entitlements:
      - Application-based access to Aria and Forte
      - Same Quantum Cloud and SDK tooling as commercial tiers
partner_marketplaces:
  - id: aws-braket
    name: AWS Braket
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/braket/pricing/
    description: IonQ Aria and Forte available via Amazon Braket task and shot pricing.
  - id: azure-quantum
    name: Microsoft Azure Quantum
    url: https://azure.microsoft.com/products/quantum/
    description: IonQ available through Azure Quantum providers with Azure-billed usage.
  - id: google-cloud
    name: Google Cloud
    url: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace
    description: IonQ available through Google Cloud Marketplace listings.