provider:braket-ionq-aria

AWS Braket — IonQ Aria (withdrawn)

IonQ Aria (25 qubits, Yb-171+ trapped-ion) · trapped-ion · 25 physical qubits · 99.50% 2Q fidelity

retired

Pricing model

Withdrawn from AWS Braket. The last published Braket rate was $0.30 per task + $0.03 per shot; it is no longer orderable there.

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
Any Braket workload	Not available	Aria is absent from the Braket supported-device list as of 2026-09-07. Forte-1 and Forte-Enterprise-1 are IonQ's only Braket devices.
Historical: 100-shot pilot circuit	$3.30	What the same circuit cost while Aria was on Braket, at $0.30 + 100 x $0.03.
Historical: 10,000-shot characterisation	$300.30	Reference only. Budget against Forte on Braket, or Aria 1 on Azure Quantum.

2.Structural hardware advantage

25-qubit trapped-ion at about 99.5% two-qubit fidelity, one tick below Forte. The hardware is still sold, just not through Braket: Azure Quantum continues to list Aria 1 under the AQT per-program model.

3.Position in the 2026 stack

Withdrawn from Braket, still on Azure. IonQ's Braket presence in 2026 is Forte-only. If you need Aria specifically, Azure Quantum is the route, and the billing model there is per-program rather than per-shot.

4.Best-fit workloads

Shallow-circuit pilot studies where 25 qubits is enough, priced through Azure Quantum rather than Braket
Comparisons against historical Braket per-shot costs
Education use where the Azure per-program floor is acceptable

5.Pricing trap

Watch for: Do not budget a Braket project against the old $0.03/shot rate. It survives in the AWS Price List API only as a legacy SKU, in the same way retired Rigetti Aspen and IonQ Harmony entries do, and no longer buys anything.

Verification note. No longer orderable. Checked 2026-09-07: the Braket supported-devices list carries only Forte-1 and Forte-Enterprise-1 from IonQ, and Aria is absent from the Braket pricing table. The $0.03/shot rate survives only as a legacy SKU in the AWS Price List API alongside other retired devices (Harmony, Aspen). Kept here as a historical reference, not a current price. Azure Quantum still sells Aria 1.

6.Source

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/braket/latest/developerguide/braket-devices.html · verified 2026-09-07