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Microsoft Azure Quantum

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.

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Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Microsoft Azure Quantum the way a machine reads it — 48 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — Microsoft Azure Quantum scores 70.9/100 (exemplar), 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 — 70.9/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 16.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 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 Microsoft Azure Quantum

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Microsoft Azure Quantum. 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 8

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.

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.

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Postman Collections 2

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 2

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).

Arazzo Workflows 6

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Azure Quantum Cancel a Running Job

Look up a job, branch on whether it is still running, cancel it, and confirm cancellation.

ARAZZO

Azure Quantum Discover an Available Target

List provider statuses in a workspace and branch on availability before selecting a target.

ARAZZO

Azure Quantum Quota Capacity Check

List workspace quotas, branch on remaining headroom, and stage storage when capacity exists.

ARAZZO

Azure Quantum Session Lifecycle

Open a session, submit a job into it, list its jobs, then close the session.

ARAZZO

Azure Quantum Submit Job and Retrieve Results

Stage input, create a quantum job, poll it to a terminal state, and read the output URI.

ARAZZO

Azure Quantum Workspace Bootstrap

Read a workspace, branch on provisioning state, list its keys, and list provider offerings.

ARAZZO

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.

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.

Microsoft Quantum Rate Limits

8 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 15

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.

Azure Quantum Workspace — managed cloud control plane for submitting and tracking quantum jobs across multiple hardware providers
Q# programming language — open-source, hardware-agnostic quantum DSL with a modern Rust-based compiler
Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK) — free, open-source SDK with VS Code extension, Python package, Jupyter widgets, and language service
Microsoft Quantum Resource Estimator — fault-tolerant resource estimation with configurable qubit parameters, QEC codes, and error budgets
Multi-provider hardware access — IonQ (trapped ion, 25–36 qubits), Quantinuum (trapped ion, H2 series 20–32 qubits), Pasqal (neutral atom, 100 qubits), Rigetti (superconducting, 108 qubits)
Built-in support for Qiskit, Cirq, OpenQASM in addition to Q#
Sessions API for low-latency hybrid quantum-classical workflows
Azure Quantum Credits program — USD 500 in free provider credits for new workspaces
Azure Quantum Elements — chemistry, materials, and HPC simulation stack (Generative Chemistry, Accelerated DFT) integrated with the quantum platform
Copilot in Microsoft Quantum — AI-assisted Q# code generation and chemistry workflows on quantum.microsoft.com
Azure CLI `az quantum` extension for workspace and job management from the terminal
ARM resource manager API for Infrastructure-as-Code provisioning
Storage SAS URI delegation for direct blob upload of job inputs/outputs
TypeSpec-defined OpenAPI specs published to Azure/azure-rest-api-specs
Azure-native integrations (RBAC, Entra ID, Storage, Monitor) and per-region provider availability

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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.

Microsoft Quantum Context

0 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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.

Microsoft Azure Quantum API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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.

AzureQuantumJob

21 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AzureQuantumProviderStatus

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AzureQuantumSession

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

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.

Security Posture 3

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.

Microsoft Quantum Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Microsoft Quantum Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Microsoft Quantum Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

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.

Microsoft Quantum Scopes

2 scopes · clientCredentials/implicit

2 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.

Microsoft Quantum Agentic Access

27 operations · 13 acting

27 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Microsoft Azure Quantum — 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 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Learn 3

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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