Self-managed providers

A self-managed provider uses your own account with a quantum vendor or cloud: an IonQ API key, an AWS account for Amazon Braket, an IBM Quantum token, and so on. The qBraid SDK is only the client library. Your jobs go straight to the vendor, the vendor bills you, and qBraid never sees them.

Don’t have your own vendor account? You probably want Run on qBraid instead. One qBraid API key reaches every device in the qBraid catalog, with no vendor account, and it’s how most people use the qBraid SDK.

When self-managed makes sense

You already have a contract, credits, or a reservation with a vendor.
You need a device qBraid doesn’t run jobs on. IBM Quantum is the main one.
Your organization requires jobs to run in its own cloud account.

How the two compare

	Run on qBraid	Self-managed
Credentials	One qBraid API key	Your own credentials for each vendor
Billing	qBraid credits	The vendor’s own billing
Job history	Your qBraid Quantum Jobs	The vendor’s console only
Install	`pip install qbraid`	`pip install 'qbraid[<extra>]'`, listed below
Provider	`QbraidProvider`	The vendor’s provider class, listed below

Devices with openquantum: IDs are the one exception on the qBraid side. They run through qBraid but spend credits from your linked Open Quantum account.

Providers

Vendor	Provider class	Install	Also on qBraid
Amazon Braket	`BraketProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[braket]'`	Yes
AQT	`AQTProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[aqt]'`	Yes
Azure Quantum	`AzureQuantumProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[azure]'`
IBM Quantum	`QiskitRuntimeProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[qiskit]'`
IonQ	`IonQProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[ionq]'`	Yes
Open Quantum	`OpenQuantumProvider`	`pip install qbraid`	Yes
OQC	`OQCProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[oqc]'`
Origin Quantum	`OriginProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[origin]'`
Pasqal	`PasqalProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[pasqal]'`
QPerfect	`QPerfectProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[qperfect]'`
Quantinuum	`QuantinuumProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[quantinuum]'`
QUDORA	`QudoraProvider`	`pip install qbraid`
Rigetti	`RigettiProvider`	`pip install 'qbraid[rigetti]'`	Yes

Every provider class runs on the same qBraid Runtime interface, so code written for one, such as provider.get_device(...) and device.run(...), carries over to another, including QbraidProvider.