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D-Wave

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) is the leader in commercial quantum annealing computing and developer of the Advantage and Advantage2 quantum systems. D-Wave's Leap quantum cloud service provides real-time access to D-Wave QPUs and to the Leap hybrid solver family (BQM, CQM, DQM, NL) capable of solving industrial optimization problems with up to ~2 million variables and constraints. The open-source Ocean SDK — dimod, dwave-system, dwave-cloud-client, dwave-hybrid, dwave-samplers, dwave-optimization, minorminer, dwave-inspector, and 40+ companion packages — provides the canonical developer experience, with the underlying Solver API (SAPI) exposed as a versioned REST interface for solver discovery, problem submission, status polling, answer retrieval, and cancellation. Companion APIs include the Metadata API for region discovery and the Leap Account API for OAuth-based project and token management.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles D-Wave the way a machine reads it — 67 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — D-Wave scores 64.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 55/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 64.9/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
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
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile D-Wave

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for D-Wave. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 6

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

D-Wave Solver API (SAPI) - Solvers

List, inspect, and discover D-Wave solvers available to the authenticated project, including quantum annealing QPU samplers (Advantage, Advantage2) and Leap hybrid samplers (BQM...

D-Wave Solver API (SAPI) - Problems

Submit, monitor, retrieve, and cancel quantum and hybrid problem jobs. Supports the canonical problem types ising, qubo, bqm, cqm, dqm, and nl with three encoding formats (qp, b...

D-Wave Account API

The Account API from D-Wave — 3 operation(s) for account.

D-Wave Hybrid API

The Hybrid API from D-Wave — 1 operation(s) for hybrid.

D-Wave QPU API

The QPU API from D-Wave — 1 operation(s) for qpu.

D-Wave Regions API

The Regions API from D-Wave — 2 operation(s) for regions.

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

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

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

D Wave Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

D Wave Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

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

Features 33

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Advantage2 — next-generation annealing quantum computer with Zephyr topology and improved coherence
Advantage — 5,000+ qubit Pegasus-topology annealing QPU available via Leap cloud
Leap quantum cloud service — real-time access, 99.9% uptime, subsecond response for many workloads
Hybrid solvers — BQM, CQM, DQM, NL families supporting up to ~2 million variables and constraints
NL (Nonlinear) solver — flagship Industrial Optimization solver for general nonlinear formulations
CQM (Constrained Quadratic Model) solver — equality and inequality constraints, mixed integer support
Direct QPU access — Ising / QUBO sampling with annealing schedule, num_reads, reverse annealing, h_gain
Solver API (SAPI) — REST interface for solver discovery, problem submission, status, answer retrieval
Metadata API — region discovery for routing to correct regional SAPI cluster (na-west, eu-central, etc.)
Leap Account API — OAuth-based project listing and SAPI token retrieval
Ocean SDK — Python open-source SDK covering dimod, dwave-system, dwave-cloud-client, hybrid, samplers
dwave-cloud-client — low-level SAPI REST client; submit_problem, list_solvers, regions, account
dimod — shared API and data model for QUBO / Ising / CQM / DQM / NL samplers
dwave-system — DWaveSampler, EmbeddingComposite, LeapHybridSampler family for application code
dwave-hybrid — asynchronous decomposition framework for building hybrid quantum-classical workflows
dwave-samplers / dwave-neal / dwave-tabu / dwave-greedy — classical reference solvers and baselines
dwave-optimization — C++ engine for nonlinear models powering the NL solver workflow
dwave-preprocessing — common BQM preprocessing techniques (roof duality, fix variables, scale, normalize)
dwave-inspector — interactive problem inspector for visualizing embeddings and chains
minorminer — heuristic minor-embedding from logical to physical qubit graph (Pegasus / Zephyr / Chimera)
dwave-graphs — Chimera, Pegasus, and Zephyr graph generators and algorithms
dwave-gate — gate-model quantum circuit construction and state-vector simulator
PyTorch plugin — quantum-classical hybrid ML with PyTorch
scikit-learn plugin — quantum-classical hybrid solving plugged into scikit-learn pipelines
Qiskit plugin — D-Wave Ocean plugin for IBM Qiskit interoperability
Leap IDE — browser-based Jupyter / VS Code environment preconfigured for Ocean development
60+ reference applications at github.com/dwave-examples (scheduling, routing, packing, ML, finance, science)
Five problem types — ising, qubo, bqm, cqm, dqm, nl — with qp / bq / ref encoding formats
Problem lifecycle — PENDING > IN_PROGRESS > COMPLETED | FAILED | CANCELLED with bulk status polling
Binary-ref answer downloads using SAPI-token auth for large hybrid answers
Versioned vendor media types (`application/vnd.dwave.sapi.*+json;version~=3.0`) for API evolution
D-Wave Launch Program — professional services for quantum onboarding
{"Publicly traded as NYSE"=>"QBTS"}

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

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

D Wave Context

36 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

D-Wave API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

D-Wave API Rules

6 rules · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

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

D-Wave Problem Answer

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

D-Wave Problem Job

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

D-Wave QPU Properties

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

D-Wave Solver Configuration

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 7

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

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

D Wave Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

D Wave Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

D Wave Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

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

D Wave Agentic Access

17 operations · 5 acting

17 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for D-Wave — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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