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AWS Braket — IQM Emerald

IQM Emerald (54-qubit superconducting, Crystal 54) · superconducting · 54 physical qubits · 99.50% 2Q fidelity

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Pricing model

$0.30 per task + $0.00160 per shot. Only marginally above Garnet per shot despite 2.7x the qubit count.

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
100-shot pilot circuit	$0.46	$0.30 task + 100 x $0.00160. Cheap first-circuit access at 54 qubits.
10,000-shot characterisation	$16.30	Just above Garnet ($14.80); a fraction of IonQ Forte ($800).
VQE 200k shots	$320.30	$0.30 task + 200,000 x $0.00160. Superconducting cost profile for wider circuits.

2.Structural hardware advantage

54-qubit Crystal 54 superconducting device with full square-lattice connectivity and ~99.5% two-qubit gate fidelity — higher fidelity and 2.7x the qubits of Garnet at a near-identical per-shot rate. The square lattice natively supports surface-code error correction.

3.Position in the 2026 stack

Production, mid-to-large scale. Emerald is IQM's larger Braket system, hosted in the EU (Stockholm) region alongside Garnet; the two run about 19 hours a day. Launched on Braket July 2025.

4.Best-fit workloads

Algorithm prototyping needing 20-54 qubits
Surface-code and error-correction experiments on a square lattice
European-data-residency superconducting workloads
Cost-sensitive wide-circuit runs where trapped-ion per-shot is prohibitive

5.Pricing trap

Watch for: Per-shot is cheap, but wide circuits fan out fast: at 54 qubits a heavy characterisation sweep needs far more shots than a 20-qubit Garnet run for comparable statistics, so the low unit rate does not mean a low total. Model your shot budget, not the headline rate.

Verification note. 54-qubit Crystal 54, full square-lattice connectivity, ~99.5% two-qubit gate fidelity. EU (Stockholm) region; launched on Braket July 2025. Reserved $4,000/hr.

6.Source

https://aws.amazon.com/braket/pricing/ · verified 2026-08-04