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Azure Quantum — Rigetti Cepheus

Rigetti Cepheus-1-108Q · superconducting · 108 physical qubits · 99.10% 2Q fidelity

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Pricing model

$0.02 per 10-ms execution increment. Effective rate $2 per second or $120 per minute.

1.Representative workload costs

Concrete circuit costs for common workload sizes. Where the pricing model is non-linear (per-program minimums, per-month subscriptions), the table surfaces the floor and break-even points.

Table 1 — Workload cost reference

Workload	Cost (USD)	Note
10-second algorithm execution	$20	Per-time-increment is more predictable than per-shot when execution time dominates.
1 minute execution	$120	Comparable to IBM PAYG rate ($96/min) at slightly higher cost — but for shorter compute Rigetti's increments are favourable.

2.Structural hardware advantage

Same Rigetti Cepheus-1-108Q hardware as Braket. Azure's time-based pricing model is structurally different from Braket's per-shot — pays off when execution time matters more than shot count.

3.Position in the 2026 stack

Production, mid-tier. Azure-native superconducting access.

4.Best-fit workloads

Time-bounded execution scenarios (real-time hybrid quantum-classical loops)
Workloads where the execution time, not shot count, is the bottleneck
Azure-native quantum pipelines preferring Microsoft tooling

5.Pricing trap

Watch for: Per-time-increment can be expensive for shot-rich workloads. Compare the same workload on Braket Rigetti — for high-shot-count, the per-shot $0.000425 model is much cheaper than the per-second model.

Verification note. $0.02 per 10-ms = $2/sec or $120/min. QVM simulator free.

6.Source

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/pricing · verified 2026-06-03