IonQ · Rate Limits

Ionq Rate Limits

IonQ does not publish a single fixed requests-per-second number for the Quantum Cloud REST API. Rate limiting is enforced at three layers: HTTP rate limits on the control-plane API, QPU queue capacity per backend (visible via /backends average_queue_time), and per-Session limits set by the caller (job_count_limit, duration_limit_min, cost_limit).

Ionq Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for IonQ on the APIs.io network.

The provider publishes no rate limits that could be read; the profile records that absence rather than inventing a ceiling.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined.

Tagged areas include Quantum Computing, Trapped Ion, QPU, ARIA, and Forte.

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IonQ publishes no rate limits that could be read; the profile records that absence rather than inventing a ceiling.
Quantum ComputingTrapped IonQPUARIAForteTempoQuantum CloudCloudHardwarePublic Company

Policies

Standard HTTP-level rate limit on /v0.4 control-plane requests. Specific values are not publicly documented; clients receive HTTP 429 when limits are exceeded and should back off and retry.
Each QPU backend has a job queue. The /backends endpoint reports `average_queue_time` so clients can choose lower-queue backends. There is no fixed jobs-per-minute number; throughput depends on circuit depth, shot count, and reserved Sessions.
Sessions support caller-set limits on total job count (job_count_limit), duration in minutes (duration_limit_min), and total cost (cost_limit). When any limit is reached, the session ends automatically.
Maximum shots per job vary by backend (simulator vs Aria vs Forte). Submit via the `shots` field on the job creation payload.

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