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Google Quantum AI

Google Quantum AI is Google's quantum-computing research and engineering arm, building superconducting quantum processors (most recently the Willow chip with below-threshold quantum error correction) and the open software stack that runs on them. The team operates the Quantum Computing Service via the Quantum Engine API (quantum.googleapis.com, v1alpha1), accessed primarily through the cirq-google Python client. Google Quantum AI also stewards a portfolio of Apache 2.0 open-source quantum software — Cirq, qsim, OpenFermion, Stim, Qualtran, TensorFlow Quantum, ReCirq, Tesseract, and Unitary — published under the quantumlib GitHub organisation, plus the Willow Early Access Program for sponsored researcher access to current hardware.

Google Quantum AI publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Calibrations API, Jobs API, Processors API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Quantum Computing, Quantum, Hardware, NISQ, and Error Correction.

The Google Quantum AI catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Google Quantum AI’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, signup flow, training material, engineering blog, and 48 more developer resources.

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15 APIs 17 Features
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Contract Quality 18.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
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APIs 15

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Cirq

Cirq is an Apache 2.0 Python framework for designing, manipulating, simulating, and executing Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits. Cirq is the canonical client libr...

qsim

qsim is a high-performance C++ state-vector simulator with a Python (qsimcirq) binding that plugs directly into Cirq. It is optimised for AVX/AVX-512, CUDA, and cuQuantum backen...

OpenFermion

OpenFermion is an Apache 2.0 library for translating quantum chemistry and materials science problems (electronic structure, fermionic operators, second quantisation) into quant...

Stim

Stim is a fast stabilizer-circuit simulator and detector-error-model toolchain that underpins Google Quantum AI's quantum error-correction work, including the Willow surface-cod...

Qualtran

Qualtran provides abstractions (Bloqs) for expressing, decomposing, and resource-estimating fault-tolerant quantum algorithms. It is Google Quantum AI's framework for reasoning ...

TensorFlow Quantum

TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ) is a hybrid quantum-classical machine learning library that integrates Cirq circuits as differentiable layers inside TensorFlow/Keras pipelines. Maintai...

ReCirq

ReCirq is a research-grade collection of reproducible Cirq experiments and applications published by Google Quantum AI, covering Fermi-Hubbard simulations, quantum chemistry ben...

Tesseract Decoder

Tesseract is a search-based maximum-likelihood decoder for quantum error correction that accompanies Stim. It targets surface-code and color-code decoding workloads used in Will...

Unitary

Unitary is an API library for adding quantum behaviours (superposition, entanglement, measurement) into classical games and interactive software, used in Google Quantum AI's edu...

Google Quantum AI Calibrations API

Periodic device performance snapshots.

Google Quantum AI Jobs API

Executions of a program against a processor or simulator backend.

Google Quantum AI Processors API

Quantum processing units (Willow, Sycamore-class) available to the project.

Google Quantum AI Programs API

Hardware-compatible circuits uploaded to a Google Cloud project.

Google Quantum AI Reservations API

Processor time-slot reservations and budgets.

Google Quantum AI Results API

Measurement results returned by completed jobs.

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Postman Collections 6

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Google Quantum Engine API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Quantum Ai Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 17

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Willow superconducting quantum processor with below-threshold quantum error correction
Quantum Engine REST/gRPC API (quantum.googleapis.com, v1alpha1) for program, job, processor, reservation, and calibration management
cirq-google as the canonical client (QuantumEngineServiceClient) wrapping the gRPC service
Cirq Python framework v1.6.x for NISQ circuit design, simulation, and execution
qsim high-performance state-vector simulator with CUDA + cuQuantum acceleration
OpenFermion for quantum chemistry and materials simulation
Stim stabilizer simulator and Tesseract decoder for surface-code QEC
Qualtran for fault-tolerant algorithm authoring and resource estimation
TensorFlow Quantum for hybrid quantum-classical machine learning
ReCirq library of reproducible research experiments
Willow Early Access Program for sponsored researcher access to the latest hardware
Google Cloud IAM / Application Default Credentials for authentication
Cirq integrations for AQT, IonQ, Pasqal, and Rigetti via dedicated subpackages
Quantum Virtual Machine (QVM) including the willow_pink target for noise-aware local simulation
Coursera "Quantum Error Correction" course produced with Google Quantum AI
Unitary game-development library for educational quantum applications
All Google Quantum AI open-source software is Apache 2.0 licensed

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Google Quantum Ai Context

27 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google Quantum AI API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Google Quantum AI API Rules

9 rules · 4 errors 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

QuantumJob

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QuantumProgram

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Google Quantum Ai Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Google Quantum Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Quantum Ai Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Google Quantum Ai Agentic Access

27 operations · 12 acting

27 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 12

Reference material describing how the API behaves

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 18

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 4

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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  - Python
  - NISQ
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  - url: https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/all_symbols
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  description: Cirq is an Apache 2.0 Python framework for designing, manipulating, simulating, and executing Noisy Intermediate-Scale
    Quantum (NISQ) circuits. Cirq is the canonical client library for Google's Quantum Engine, with cirq-google providing
    typed access to programs, jobs, processors, reservations, and calibrations. Cirq v1.6.x supports Python 3.11+ and ships
    dedicated subpackages for AQT, IonQ, Pasqal, and Google hardware backends.
- aid: google-quantum-ai:qsim
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  tags:
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  - Simulation
  - Performance
  - Open Source
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  - url: https://quantumai.google/qsim
    type: Documentation
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    type: SourceCode
  - url: https://pypi.org/project/qsimcirq/
    type: PackageURL
  description: qsim is a high-performance C++ state-vector simulator with a Python (qsimcirq) binding that plugs directly
    into Cirq. It is optimised for AVX/AVX-512, CUDA, and cuQuantum backends and is the default classical engine for benchmarking
    Cirq circuits at scales of 30+ qubits before submitting to hardware.
- aid: google-quantum-ai:openfermion
  name: OpenFermion
  tags:
  - Quantum Computing
  - Chemistry
  - Materials Science
  - Open Source
  humanURL: https://quantumai.google/openfermion
  properties:
  - url: https://quantumai.google/openfermion
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    type: SourceCode
  - url: https://pypi.org/project/openfermion/
    type: PackageURL
  description: OpenFermion is an Apache 2.0 library for translating quantum chemistry and materials science problems (electronic
    structure, fermionic operators, second quantisation) into quantum circuits suitable for Cirq and other backends. Plugin
    packages (openfermion-pyscf, openfermion-psi4) bridge to classical chemistry stacks.
- aid: google-quantum-ai:stim
  name: Stim
  tags:
  - Quantum Computing
  - Error Correction
  - Stabilizer
  - Open Source
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  properties:
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  description: Stim is a fast stabilizer-circuit simulator and detector-error-model toolchain that underpins Google Quantum
    AI's quantum error-correction work, including the Willow surface-code experiments. It exposes Python and C++ APIs and
    pairs with PyMatching and Tesseract decoders.
- aid: google-quantum-ai:qualtran
  name: Qualtran
  tags:
  - Quantum Computing
  - Algorithms
  - Resource Estimation
  - Open Source
  humanURL: https://github.com/quantumlib/qualtran
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/quantumlib/qualtran
    type: SourceCode
  - url: https://pypi.org/project/qualtran/
    type: PackageURL
  description: Qualtran provides abstractions (Bloqs) for expressing, decomposing, and resource-estimating fault-tolerant
    quantum algorithms. It is Google Quantum AI's framework for reasoning about future error-corrected workloads on hardware
    beyond Willow.
- aid: google-quantum-ai:tensorflow-quantum
  name: TensorFlow Quantum
  tags:
  - Quantum Computing
  - Machine Learning
  - Hybrid
  - Open Source
  humanURL: https://www.tensorflow.org/quantum
  properties:
  - url: https://www.tensorflow.org/quantum
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/tensorflow/quantum
    type: SourceCode
  - url: https://pypi.org/project/tensorflow-quantum/
    type: PackageURL
  description: TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ) is a hybrid quantum-classical machine learning library that integrates Cirq circuits
    as differentiable layers inside TensorFlow/Keras pipelines. Maintained jointly by Google Quantum AI and the TensorFlow
    team.
- aid: google-quantum-ai:recirq
  name: ReCirq
  tags:
  - Quantum Computing
  - Research
  - Experiments
  - Open Source
  humanURL: https://github.com/quantumlib/ReCirq
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/quantumlib/ReCirq
    type: SourceCode
  description: ReCirq is a research-grade collection of reproducible Cirq experiments and applications published by Google
    Quantum AI, covering Fermi-Hubbard simulations, quantum chemistry benchmarks, OTOC measurements, QAOA, and related workloads.
- aid: google-quantum-ai:tesseract-decoder
  name: Tesseract Decoder
  tags:
  - Quantum Computing
  - Error Correction
  - Decoder
  - Open Source
  humanURL: https://github.com/quantumlib/tesseract-decoder
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/quantumlib/tesseract-decoder
    type: SourceCode
  description: Tesseract is a search-based maximum-likelihood decoder for quantum error correction that accompanies Stim.
    It targets surface-code and color-code decoding workloads used in Willow-era QEC demonstrations.
- aid: google-quantum-ai:unitary
  name: Unitary
  tags:
  - Quantum Computing
  - Games
  - Education
  - Open Source
  humanURL: https://github.com/quantumlib/unitary
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/quantumlib/unitary
    type: SourceCode
  description: Unitary is an API library for adding quantum behaviours (superposition, entanglement, measurement) into classical
    games and interactive software, used in Google Quantum AI's educational outreach work.
- aid: google-quantum-ai:google-quantum-ai-calibrations-api
  name: Google Quantum AI Calibrations API
  description: Periodic device performance snapshots.
  humanURL: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
  baseURL: https://quantum.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Calibrations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-quantum-ai-calibrations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/concepts
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/access
  - type: Documentation
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    url: json-schema/google-quantum-ai-quantum-program-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-quantum-ai-quantum-job-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/google-quantum-ai-context.jsonld
- aid: google-quantum-ai:google-quantum-ai-jobs-api
  name: Google Quantum AI Jobs API
  description: Executions of a program against a processor or simulator backend.
  humanURL: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
  baseURL: https://quantum.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-quantum-ai-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/concepts
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/access
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq_google/engine/Engine
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  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/google-quantum-ai-context.jsonld
- aid: google-quantum-ai:google-quantum-ai-processors-api
  name: Google Quantum AI Processors API
  description: Quantum processing units (Willow, Sycamore-class) available to the project.
  humanURL: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
  baseURL: https://quantum.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Processors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-quantum-ai-processors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/concepts
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/access
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq_google/engine/Engine
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  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/google-quantum-ai-context.jsonld
- aid: google-quantum-ai:google-quantum-ai-programs-api
  name: Google Quantum AI Programs API
  description: Hardware-compatible circuits uploaded to a Google Cloud project.
  humanURL: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
  baseURL: https://quantum.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Programs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-quantum-ai-programs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/concepts
  - type: Documentation
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  - type: Documentation
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  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/google-quantum-ai-context.jsonld
- aid: google-quantum-ai:google-quantum-ai-reservations-api
  name: Google Quantum AI Reservations API
  description: Processor time-slot reservations and budgets.
  humanURL: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
  baseURL: https://quantum.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Reservations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-quantum-ai-reservations-api-openapi.yml
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  - type: Documentation
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  - type: Documentation
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- aid: google-quantum-ai:google-quantum-ai-results-api
  name: Google Quantum AI Results API
  description: Measurement results returned by completed jobs.
  humanURL: https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
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  - Results
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name: Google Quantum AI
tags:
- Quantum Computing
- Quantum
- Hardware
- NISQ
- Error Correction
- Willow
- Sycamore
- Cirq
- Quantum Engine
- Superconducting Qubits
- Google Cloud
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  - Cirq Python framework v1.6.x for NISQ circuit design, simulation, and execution
  - qsim high-performance state-vector simulator with CUDA + cuQuantum acceleration
  - OpenFermion for quantum chemistry and materials simulation
  - Stim stabilizer simulator and Tesseract decoder for surface-code QEC
  - Qualtran for fault-tolerant algorithm authoring and resource estimation
  - TensorFlow Quantum for hybrid quantum-classical machine learning
  - ReCirq library of reproducible research experiments
  - Willow Early Access Program for sponsored researcher access to the latest hardware
  - Google Cloud IAM / Application Default Credentials for authentication
  - Cirq integrations for AQT, IonQ, Pasqal, and Rigetti via dedicated subpackages
  - Quantum Virtual Machine (QVM) including the willow_pink target for noise-aware local simulation
  - Coursera "Quantum Error Correction" course produced with Google Quantum AI
  - Unitary game-development library for educational quantum applications
  - All Google Quantum AI open-source software is Apache 2.0 licensed
  sources:
  - https://quantumai.google/
  - https://quantumai.google/cirq
  - https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/engine
  - https://quantumai.google/cirq/google/concepts
  - https://quantumai.google/software
  - https://github.com/quantumlib
  updated: '2026-05-25'
created: '2026-05-25T00:00:00.000Z'
modified: '2026-05-25'
position: Consuming
description: Google Quantum AI is Google's quantum-computing research and engineering arm, building superconducting quantum
  processors (most recently the Willow chip with below-threshold quantum error correction) and the open software stack that
  runs on them. The team operates the Quantum Computing Service via the Quantum Engine API (quantum.googleapis.com, v1alpha1),
  accessed primarily through the cirq-google Python client. Google Quantum AI also stewards a portfolio of Apache 2.0 open-source
  quantum software — Cirq, qsim, OpenFermion, Stim, Qualtran, TensorFlow Quantum, ReCirq, Tesseract, and Unitary — published
  under the quantumlib GitHub organisation, plus the Willow Early Access Program for sponsored researcher access to current
  hardware.
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