Rigetti Computing
Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq, RGTI) is a Berkeley, California-based quantum computing company building superconducting quantum processors and the full-stack software needed to program and operate them. Founded in 2013 by Chad Rigetti, the company designs, manufactures, and operates multi-chip superconducting QPUs at its Fab-1 in Fremont, CA and offers cloud-based access through Quantum Cloud Services (QCS). Rigetti also sells the Novera QPU (9-qubit) for on-premises customers and provides Quantum Foundry Services for custom development. The current generation system Cepheus-1-108Q (107 qubits, deployed April 2026) is accessed via a hybrid REST + gRPC API surface, programmed using the open Quil instruction language, the pyQuil Python library, and the multi-language qcs-sdk (Rust core with Python bindings). Rigetti's hardware is also available indirectly through AWS Braket, Microsoft Azure Quantum, and as a Qiskit provider via qiskit-rigetti.
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles Rigetti Computing the way a machine reads it — 69 machine-readable artifacts across 11 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 — Rigetti Computing scores 70.8/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Rigetti Computing
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Rigetti Computing. 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 11
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.
Rigetti QCS Translation Service (gRPC)
gRPC Translation service that compiles native Quil programs into encrypted Controller Jobs for execution on a Rigetti QPU. Operations include TranslateQuilToEncryptedControllerJ...
Rigetti QCS Controller Service (gRPC)
gRPC Controller service that executes encrypted Controller Jobs on a Rigetti QPU endpoint and returns measurement (readout) results. Operations include ExecuteControllerJob, Bat...
Rigetti Computing account API
The account API from Rigetti Computing — 22 operation(s) for account.
Rigetti Computing authentication API
The authentication API from Rigetti Computing — 4 operation(s) for authentication.
Rigetti Computing clientApplications API
Check for the latest SDK versions.
Rigetti Computing endpoints API
The Endpoint is the means of access to a Quantum Processor.
Rigetti Computing engagements API
The Engagement is the authorization mechanism for access to the Quantum Processor.
Rigetti Computing Healthcheck API
The Healthcheck API from Rigetti Computing — 1 operation(s) for healthcheck.
Rigetti Computing quantumProcessors API
The Quantum Processor is the heart of the Rigetti services.
Rigetti Computing reservations API
Find existing time on a Rigetti QPU and reserve it.
Rigetti Computing Rigetti QCS API API
The Rigetti QCS API API from Rigetti Computing — 2 operation(s) for rigetti qcs api.
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Postman Collections 1
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.
Rigetti QCS API
POSTMANOpen Collections 1
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).
Rigetti QCS API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo 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.
Rigetti Book QPU Reservation
Find an available reservation slot on a quantum processor, book it, and confirm the booking.
ARAZZORigetti Cancel Reservation
List a user's reservations, inspect the most relevant one, and cancel it, confirming the cancellation.
ARAZZORigetti Create Execution Engagement
Resolve a processor's default endpoint and create an engagement that grants credentialed access to execute on the QPU.
ARAZZORigetti Discover Quantum Processor
List available QPUs, then inspect one processor's metadata, instruction set architecture, and live accessors.
ARAZZORigetti Provision Endpoint and Engage
Create a private endpoint for a processor, poll until it reports healthy, then create an engagement against it.
ARAZZORigetti Reservation Readiness Check
Resolve the caller's identity and balance, read a processor's maintenance calendar, and surface available reservation slots before booking.
ARAZZOPricing 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.
Rigetti Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Rigetti Finops
FINOPSFeatures 19
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.
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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.
Rigetti Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
Rigetti Computing API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
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.
Rigetti Quantum Processor
JSON SCHEMARigetti QCS Reservation
JSON SCHEMASecurity 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.
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.
Use Cases 10
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
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Integrations 8
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
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Solutions 3
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Rigetti Computing — 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.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 6
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 21
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 7
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
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Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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