Automated performance optimization

Achieve meaningful results from quantum computers through fully automated error suppression — no hardware expertise required.

Achieve utility scale quantum execution with Fire Opal

Today’s quantum computers are growing rapidly, but errors hinder the ability to get useful results. Fire Opal is an out-of-the-box cloud solution that allows you to solve your toughest quantum problems with over 100 qubits using Q‑CTRL’s proprietary automated error suppression technology.

Now anyone can boost the quality of their use cases run on real hardware while achieving massive cost savings. A single pipeline for abstracting hardware, automatically reducing error, and boosting algorithmic success on quantum computers will transform the value of your quantum applications.

Achieve quality results at utility scales

Get meaningful results for high-value use cases on real quantum computers

Attack real-world use cases with over 100 useful qubits

Transform outputs from random to useful through automated error suppression

Gain critical insights only available from hardware

28, 30, 120 qubit Maxcut problems via QAOA algorithm

Reduce compute time and cost

Reduce costs by >1,000x by getting clearer results from each execution

Maximize your quantum compute budget with overhead-free execution

Reduce shot counts and improve signal quality

Eliminate failed executions with performance optimization and instructive warnings to preserve your budget

Build quantum solutions with ease

Run use cases at peak performance through hardware abstraction

Input your custom algorithm or run entire workflows with a single command and never see a quantum circuit

Implement a comprehensive error-suppression pipeline with no code, no settings, and no configuration

Move your applications across multiple hardware backends without reconfiguration

Improve hardware performance

Identify and combat noise and error sources that hide your hardware's potential.

Pinpoint and eliminate sources of performance-limiting noise.

Gain new insights to build more resilient devices.

Suppress errors and drifts to keep hardware performance at peak.

How it works

Fire Opal delivers AI-powered hardware optimization and abstraction so you can see real results for your quantum use cases. It connects directly to supported hardware backends and returns the best output achievable without the need for any user intervention or hardware knowledge. Focus on results and impact instead of fighting errors.

What’s included

The industry’s best fully-configured toolkit to deliver world-leading performance for quantum applications to any user.

Automated error suppression

Fully automated, AI-driven error suppression and mitigation, delivered with a single line of code for any algorithm, benchmarked as the best on real hardware.

The best compiler in the industry

Circuit-level error reduction and efficient transpilation integrated and validated to outperform the competition.

High-level application solvers with no quantum circuits

Hardware-optimized algorithmic modules for popular hybrid subroutines, such as efficient Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), etc.

Coming soon: Simulation solver

Surpass classical exact-simulation limits in chemistry and materials science with our upcoming Simulation Solver. This quantum-ready solver features built-in performance management to maximize the utility of today’s hardware.

Fire Opal is directly integrated with leading quantum development platforms

Easily design and test new applications and deploy directly for performance-optimized hardware execution in a single workflow.

Q-CTRL's world records show we are key to driving progress in quantum computing

33 qubits

World’s largest QPE demo

40 qubits

World’s longest-range gate teleportation

75 qubits

World’s largest verifiable entangled state

103 qubits

World largest constrained quantum optimisation

127 qubits

World’s largest successful quantum optimization

Where to find Fire Opal

Fire Opal is hardware-agnostic, delivering seamless workflow and algorithm performance across leading quantum platforms. Sign up directly to Fire Opal Client or select a provider below to get started.

Unleash latent hardware performance

Quantum computing end users seek maximum performance and simplicity when choosing a provider. Fire Opal can be natively integrated in your platform to seamlessly and automatically suppress errors to give you a competitive advantage.

Real-world use cases

  1. Accelerating the schedule for quantum-enhanced rail

    • 6X increase in solvable problem size and accelerated timeline to practical quantum advantage by up to 3 years, now estimated for 2028.

  2. Delivering quantum computing for faster commuting

    • 200X Improvement in algorithmic success.

  3. Enabling data loading for quantum machine learning with Fire Opal

    • 8X Better performance in terms of Total Variational Distance (TVD).

  4. Enabling efficient and robust supply chains

    • By 2028 our quantum optimizer is projected to deliver high-quality solutions for Airbus’s 48-product industrial problem, each with 5 candidate options per product.