Get Your Students on Real Quantum Computers for Free
We fund your entire class, at any educational institution: $50 of real quantum compute per student. No committees, no procurement. We just onboard you.
Why Educators Choose Open Quantum
Your Whole Class, Funded
If we can verify it is a real course, you are in: $50 of quantum compute per student, through a single class code. No committees, no waiting on a decision. We just onboard you.
Minutes, Not Hours
Queue times are regularly under a minute, versus hours on other free tiers, so students iterate on real hardware within a single lab session.
Your Curriculum Just Works
Native Qiskit and PennyLane plugins, or raw OpenQASM straight from the browser. Whatever you already teach runs unchanged.
Four QPU Vendors, One Login
QPUs from IonQ, Rigetti, IQM, and AQT through a single account. No vendor accounts, no procurement, no setup scripts.
$50 Free, Every 90 Days
Beyond your class grant, every student account refreshes with $50 of free quantum compute every 90 days. No credit card, ever.
A Real Developer Platform
Web console, job history, SDK keys, and a REST API. Students learn on the same tools they will use in industry.
How It Works for Your Class
- Tell us about your course and enrollment in a two-minute form, using your institution email. It is onboarding, not an application.
- We confirm it is a real course from your institution email and public course page, then provision your class code and fund $50 of quantum compute per student, typically within one business day.
- Students join through your class link and write circuits in Qiskit or PennyLane, or upload OpenQASM files directly through the web.
- Jobs run on real hardware from IonQ, Rigetti, IQM, and AQT through one unified API, with results usually back in under a minute.
- Building a course? Use any content from Quantum 101, our free 14-lesson curriculum, and we will help you design labs around real QPU access.
Unlimited local simulation
Unlimited Practice at Zero Cost
Beyond Open Quantum, Quantum Rings offers a large-scale simulator every student can run locally on their own machine, free for academics: unlimited shots, hundreds of qubits, no queues, no credit meter. Students practice without limits, then run the same circuits on real QPUs with one line of code.
Get Your Class Funded
Tell us your course and enrollment and we'll fund every student with $50 of real quantum compute, provisioned immediately through a single class code. We'll also help you design assignments and labs around real QPU access.
Teach With Quantum 101
Use any content you'd like from Quantum 101, our free 14-lesson quantum computing course, to bolster your own curriculum. Every exercise runs on our simulator and moves to a real QPU unchanged.
Partner Resources
Open Quantum class funding is the fastest way to put a class on real hardware: you onboard, we verify, you are funded. If you are building a bigger program, these partner offerings stack well alongside it.
QuEST
Our partners at qBraid grant up to $5,000 in quantum credits to as many as 40 institutions through QuEST. And because Open Quantum is integrated with qBraid, students who link their accounts can spend their QuEST credits and their Open Quantum credits side by side, in one workflow.
IBM Quantum Learning
IBM offers extensive self-paced courses and teaching materials through IBM Quantum Learning. A strong complement to the hands-on labs your students run on Open Quantum.
Black Opal
Our partners at Q-CTRL built Black Opal, an interactive, visual platform for learning quantum computing from the ground up. Great preparation before your students touch real hardware on Open Quantum.
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