Qiskit: The most performant quantum software development kit

Using a new open-source suite of over 1,000 benchmarking tests developed by leading universities, national labs, and researchers at IBM®, we found that Qiskit is second-to-none in terms of the speed and quality demonstrated for most test tasks.

When measured against the closest leading quantum software development kits, Qiskit showed its overall speed in both its ability to build and manipulate quantum circuits, as well its speed in synthesizing and transpiling them.

In regards to quality, Qiskit transpiled circuits with the lowest number of 2Q gates — meaning it needs to perform far fewer operations when running circuits on hardware, thereby generating less noise and superior results.

Finally, Qiskit was the only software that was able to complete all tests that can be completed using current quantum hardware. (Note: A small number of tests are currently impossible to complete with today's quantum processors.)

We're also pleased to share that the benchmarking suite used for these tests, named Benchpress, is now available as an open-source package. You can now use the Benchpress package to perform your own analysis of quantum SDK performance.

Head to the IBM Quantum blog for a deeper dive on the performance results!