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D-Wave Leap — Commercial

Advantage2 (4,400+ flux-qubit annealer) · annealer · 4400 physical qubits

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Pricing model

Annual subscription, quote-only. Public list prices not republished since 2023 industry reports ($2,000/hr).

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
Annual contract	Quote-only	Verify directly with D-Wave sales. Public 2023 figures are stale and should not be used for 2026 budgeting.

2.Structural hardware advantage

Production access to Advantage2 (4,400+ qubits, Zephyr topology) with priority queue scheduling and hybrid solver allocations. The largest commercial annealer in 2026.

3.Position in the 2026 stack

Production annealer, enterprise contracts only. D-Wave has shifted strategic emphasis from per-hour cloud access toward enterprise consultancy + production-deployment partnerships.

4.Best-fit workloads

Production combinatorial optimisation workloads (vehicle routing, scheduling, portfolio optimisation)
Hybrid quantum-classical pipelines that benefit from annealer + classical compute
Enterprise R&D programmes with multi-year quantum commitments

5.Pricing trap

Watch for: Past per-hour figures ($2K/hr cited in 2023 industry coverage) have not been re-published for 2026 — treating them as current is misleading. Verify with D-Wave directly before budgeting.

Verification note. No public 2026 list price. Previously documented at ~$2,000/hr in 2023 industry reports — do not republish without re-verification.

6.Source

https://www.dwavequantum.com/solutions-and-products/cloud-platform/ · verified 2026-06-03