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Qiskit

qiskit-aer-gpu

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
101
Week
628
Month
6.2K
Stars
658
Forks
431
Issues
185
Version
0.15.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
65
Adoption
37
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
69 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,165
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
6,165
Stars
658
Stars per 1k downloads
106.73
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
90
Month daily avg
206
Momentum
-56.3%
((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
600 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
5.6
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
6,165
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
281.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
12.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
530d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 50

Python Versions

3.12
59.2% 29
3.10
32.7% 16
3.11
6.1% 3
3.9
2.0% 1

Top Countries

1. US US
57
2. BR BR
10
3. NL NL
6
4. CN CN
3
5. AT AT
2
6. SG SG
2
7. CA CA
1
8. JP JP
1

Dependencies

10

Used By

5

Package Information

License
Apache 2.0
First Release
February 7, 2020
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
0.15.1
Total Releases
35
Contributors
111
Open PRs
45
Archived
No
Author
AER Development Team
Python Versions
3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
qiskit simulator quantum computing backend
Topics
gpu qiskit quantum-computing simulator
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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