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Ibm Quantum Rate Limits
Documented rate limits for the IBM Quantum Platform (Qiskit Runtime REST API). Per-IAM-token request rate caps and per-instance quantum compute minute quotas pulled from the platform documentation and OpenAPI description.
Ibm Quantum Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for ibm-quantum on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
The profile also includes 5 backoff/retry policies defined.
0 Limits
Policies
Job submission rate
The Qiskit Runtime REST API limits job creation (POST /v1/jobs) to 5 requests per minute per IAM token. Documented directly in the OpenAPI description for the create-jobs operation.
Open Plan quantum compute minutes
Open Plan users receive up to 10 quantum compute minutes per 28-day rolling window. Active Open Plan users could also opt in (as of March 2026) for an additional 180 minutes over 12 months.
Open Plan promotional minutes
Promotional bonus of 180 additional quantum compute minutes available to active Open Plan users over 12 months.
Instance allocation
Each Qiskit Runtime instance carries an allocation that bounds total minute consumption and concurrency. Inspect via GET /v1/instance and GET /v1/instances/configuration.
Regional endpoint selection
Choose between the global endpoint (quantum.cloud.ibm.com) and the EU-DE regional endpoint (eu-de.quantum.cloud.ibm.com) at request time. Some instances and QPUs are region-bound.