generated: '2026-08-23'
method: searched
source: https://docs.iqm.tech/iqm-client/user_guide_qiskit.html
note: >-
  IQM ships no server-side sandbox and no test/live key separation — there is one token and
  one production API. What it ships instead, and what genuinely serves the same purpose for
  this domain, is LOCAL SIMULATION IN-PACKAGE: noise-modelled fake backends and a facade
  backend that let a developer rehearse a circuit end to end without a token and without
  spending credits. That is recorded here rather than forced into a payments-shaped
  test-card schema. No test credentials of any kind are published, so none are invented.
test_live_separation:
  supported: false
  key_prefixes: []
  note: One production API token, generated from the Resonance dashboard. There is no test-mode key.
hosted_sandbox:
  available: false
  note: No sandbox host. resonance.iqm.tech is production and returns 401 to anonymous callers.
local_simulation:
  available: true
  requires_token: false
  requires_network: false
  install: pip install "iqm-client[qiskit]"
  description: >-
    Qiskit-compatible fake backends that simulate execution on a specific IQM architecture,
    with IQM-specific noise models, entirely on the developer's machine.
  backends:
  - {name: fake_garnet, module: iqm.qiskit_iqm.fake_backends.fake_garnet}
  - {name: fake_deneb, module: iqm.qiskit_iqm.fake_backends.fake_deneb}
  - {name: fake_adonis, module: iqm.qiskit_iqm.fake_backends.fake_adonis}
  - {name: fake_apollo, module: iqm.qiskit_iqm.fake_backends.fake_apollo}
  - {name: fake_aphrodite, module: iqm.qiskit_iqm.fake_backends.fake_aphrodite}
  base_class: iqm.qiskit_iqm.fake_backends.iqm_fake_backend
  docs: https://docs.iqm.tech/iqm-client/user_guide_qiskit.html
facade_backend:
  available: true
  class: iqm.qiskit_iqm.iqm_provider.IQMFacadeBackend
  description: >-
    Runs a circuit against a real IQM server's validation and calibration path while
    substituting simulated execution — the closest thing IQM offers to a server-aware dry
    run.
  docs: https://docs.iqm.tech/iqm-client/user_guide_qiskit.html
free_tier_as_sandbox:
  available: true
  plan: Starter
  allowance: Up to 30 credits per month, based on availability
  note: >-
    The free Starter tier is the practical way to exercise the real API. It is a production
    tier with a quota, not a sandbox — jobs run on real QPUs and consume real credits.
  sign_up: https://resonance.iqm.tech/sign-up
example_notebooks:
- {name: resonance-example-notebooks, url: 'https://github.com/iqm-finland/resonance-example-notebooks', description: Quickstart notebooks for IQM Resonance}
- {name: IQM Academy tutorials, url: 'https://www.iqmacademy.com/tutorials/resonance/', description: Public, runnable Resonance tutorials}
test_values_published: false