# Microsoft Azure Quantum

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-quantum/  
**Website:** https://quantum.microsoft.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

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.

## Kin Score — 62.3 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 62.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 52.3 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 68.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 92.1 |
| Access Clarity | 92.1 |

## Agent readiness — 35.6 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **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 p...
- **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 c...
- **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 again...
- **Microsoft Azure Quantum Offerings API** — The Offerings API from Microsoft Azure Quantum — 1 operation(s) for offerings.
- **Microsoft Azure Quantum Operations API** — The Operations API from Microsoft Azure Quantum — 1 operation(s) for operations.
- **Microsoft Azure Quantum Subscriptions API** — The Subscriptions API from Microsoft Azure Quantum — 12 operation(s) for subscriptions.
- **Microsoft Azure Quantum SuiteOffers API** — The SuiteOffers API from Microsoft Azure Quantum — 1 operation(s) for suiteoffers.
- **Microsoft Azure Quantum Workspaces API** — The Workspaces API from Microsoft Azure Quantum — 6 operation(s) for workspaces.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Microsoft Quantum Agentic Access** — 27 operations · 13 acting

## Security (3)

- **Microsoft Quantum Authentication** — apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes
- **Microsoft Quantum Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Microsoft Quantum Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Microsoft Quantum Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-quantum/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.