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Qiskit

qiskit-aer

Aer is a high performance simulator for quantum circuits that includes noise models
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (Qiskit/qiskit-aer) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
22.5K
Week
129.8K
Month
624.7K
Stars
665
Forks
433
Issues
185
Version
0.17.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
65
Adoption
57
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
85 days ago
Monthly downloads
624,711
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
624,711
Stars
665
Stars per 1k downloads
1.06
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
18,540
Month daily avg
20,824
Momentum
-11.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache 2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
106 days ago
Total releases
58
Releases/year
7.8
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
111
Monthly downloads
624,711
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
89
 
Issue Burden
278.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
12.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 10.0K
macOS 848
Windows 695

Python Versions

3.12
34.2% 3.6K
3.11
32.6% 3.4K
3.10
15.3% 1.6K
3.13
14.3% 1.5K
3.14
3.6% 380

Top Countries

1. US US
10.9K
2. IE IE
382
3. SG SG
287
4. DE DE
166
5. IN IN
159
6. FI FI
143
7. TW TW
126
8. CN CN
104
9. NL NL
104
10. FR FR
92

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache 2.0
First Release
December 19, 2018
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
0.17.2
Total Releases
58
Contributors
111
Open PRs
48
Archived
No
Author
AER Development Team
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
qiskit simulator quantum computing backend
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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