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title: Primitives with REST API
description: How to use the Sampler and Estimator primitives with Qiskit Runtime REST API.
---
{/* cspell:ignore IIZII, XIZZZ, accum */}
# Primitives with REST API
The steps in this topic describe how to run and configure primitive workloads with REST API, and demonstrate how to invoke them in any program of your choice.
<Admonition type="note">
This documentation utilizes the Python `requests` module to demonstrate the Qiskit Runtime REST API. However, this workflow can be executed using any language or framework that supports working with REST APIs. Refer to the [API reference documentation](/api/runtime/tags/jobs) for details.
</Admonition>
<span id="start-estimator"></span>
## Estimator primitive with REST API
### 1. Initialize the account
Because Qiskit Runtime Estimator is a managed service, you first need to initialize your account. You can then select the device you want to use to calculate the expectation value.
Find details on how to initialize your account, view available backends, and invalidate tokens in this [topic](./setup-channel#set-up-to-use-ibm-quantum-platform-with-rest-api).
### 2. Create a QASM circuit
You need at least one circuit as the input to the Estimator primitive.
Define a QASM quantum circuit. For example:
```python
qasm_string='''
OPENQASM 3;
include "stdgates.inc";
qreg q[2];
creg c[2];
x q[0];
cx q[0], q[1];
c[0] = measure q[0];
c[1] = measure q[1];
'''
```
The following code snippets assume that the `qasm_string` has been transpiled to a new string `resulting_qasm`. Find detailed instructions on how to use the Qiskit transpiler service API in this [topic](./transpile-rest-api).
### 3. Run the quantum circuit using the Estimator V2 API
<Admonition type="note">
The following jobs use [Qiskit Runtime V2 primitives](/migration-guides/v2-primitives). Both `SamplerV2` and `EstimatorV2` take one or more primitive unified blocs (PUBs) as the input. Each PUB is a tuple that contains one circuit and the data broadcasted to that circuit, which can be multiple observables and parameters. Each PUB returns a result.
</Admonition>
```python
import requests
url = 'https://api.quantum-computing.ibm.com/runtime/jobs'
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-access-token':auth_id,
'x-qx-client-application': 'qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/'+'your_application' # specifying the application you might be running from. For an actual Integration project, this option is invaluable to know where jobs are coming from. At this time the "qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/" string is a necessary prefix.
}
job_input = {
'program_id': 'estimator',
"backend": backend,
"hub": "hub1",
"group": "group1",
"project": "project1",
"start_session": "False", # set to False if you just need to run a single job.
"params": {
"pubs": [ #primitive unified blocs (PUBs) containing one circuit each. c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
[resulting_qasm, # QASM circuit
{"IIZII": 1, "XIZZZ": 2.3}, # Observable
None # parameter values
]],
"version": 2 # this defines the version of the Qiskit Runtime Primitive to use, c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
}}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=job_input)
if response.status_code == 200:
job_id = response.json().get('id')
print("Job created:",response.text)
else:
print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
```
### 4. Check job status and get results
Next, pass the `job_id` to the API:
```python
response_status_singlejob= requests.get(url+'/'+job_id, headers=headers)
response_status_singlejob.json().get('state')
```
Output
```text
>>> Job ID: 58223448-5100-4dec-a47a-942fb30edcad
>>> Job Status: JobStatus.RUNNING
```
Get job results:
```python
response_result= requests.get(url+'/'+job_id+'/results', headers=headers)
res_dict=response_result.json()
estimator_result=res_dict['results']
print(estimator_result)
```
Output
```text
[{'data': {'evs': 0.7428980350102542, 'stds': 0.029884014518789213, 'ensemble_standard_error': 0.03261147170624149}, 'metadata': {'shots': 10016, 'target_precision': 0.01, 'circuit_metadata': {}, 'resilience': {}, 'num_randomizations': 32}}]
```
### 5. Work with Runtime options
Error mitigation techniques allow users to mitigate circuit errors by modeling the device noise at the time of execution. This typically results in quantum pre-processing overhead related to model training, and classical post-processing overhead to mitigate errors in the raw results by using the generated model.
The error mitigation techniques built in to primitives are advanced resilience options. To specify these options, use the `resilience_level` option when submitting your job.
The following examples demonstrate the default options for dynamical decoupling, twirling, and TREX + ZNE. Find more options and further details in the [Error mitigation and suppression techniques](./error-mitigation-and-suppression-techniques) topic.
<Tabs>
<TabItem value="TREX + ZNE" label="TREX + ZNE">
```python
import requests
url = 'https://api.quantum-computing.ibm.com/runtime/jobs'
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-access-token':auth_id,
'x-qx-client-application': 'qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/'+'your_application' # specifying the application you might be running from. For an actual Integration project, this option is invaluable to know where jobs are coming from. At this time the "qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/" string is a necessary prefix.
}
job_input = {
'program_id': 'estimator',
"backend": backend,
"hub": "hub1",
"group": "group1",
"project": "project1",
"start_session": "False", # set to False if you just need to run a single job.
"params": {
"pubs": [ #primitive unified blocs (PUBs) containing one circuit each. c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
[resulting_qasm, # QASM circuit
{"IIZII": 1, "XIZZZ": 2.3}, # Observable
None # parameter values
]],
"version": 2, # this defines the version of the Qiskit Runtime Primitive to use, c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
"options": {
"resilience": {
"measure_mitigation": True,
"zne_mitigation": True,
"zne": {
"extrapolator":["exponential", "linear"],
"noise_factors":[1, 3, 5],
},
#"pec_mitigation": False,
#"pec": None,
#"layer_noise_learning":None,
},
},
}
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=job_input)
if response.status_code == 200:
job_id = response.json().get('id')
print("Job created:",response.text)
else:
print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
```
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="Dynamical Decoupling" label="Dynamical Decoupling">
```python
import requests
url = 'https://api.quantum-computing.ibm.com/runtime/jobs'
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-access-token':auth_id,
'x-qx-client-application': 'qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/'+'your_application' # specifying the application you might be running from. For an actual Integration project, this option is invaluable to know where jobs are coming from. At this time the "qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/" string is a necessary prefix.
}
job_input = {
'program_id': 'estimator',
"backend": backend,
"hub": "hub1",
"group": "group1",
"project": "project1",
"start_session": "False", # set to False if you just need to run a single job.
"params": {
"pubs": [ #primitive unified blocs (PUBs) containing one circuit each. c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
[resulting_qasm, # QASM circuit
{"IIZII": 1, "XIZZZ": 2.3}, # Observable
None # parameter values
]],
"version": 2, # this defines the version of the Qiskit Runtime Primitive to use, c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
"options": {
"dynamical_decoupling": {
"enable": True,
"sequence_type": 'XpXm',
"extra_slack_distribution": 'middle',
"scheduling_method": 'alap',
},
},
}
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=job_input)
if response.status_code == 200:
job_id = response.json().get('id')
print("Job created:",response.text)
else:
print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
```
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="Twirling" label="Twirling">
```python
import requests
url = 'https://api.quantum-computing.ibm.com/runtime/jobs'
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-access-token':auth_id,
'x-qx-client-application': 'qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/'+'your_application' # specifying the application you might be running from. For an actual Integration project, this option is invaluable to know where jobs are coming from. At this time the "qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/" string is a necessary prefix.
}
job_input = {
'program_id': 'estimator',
"backend": backend,
"hub": "hub1",
"group": "group1",
"project": "project1",
"start_session": "False", # set to False if you just need to run a single job.
"params": {
"pubs": [ #primitive unified blocs (PUBs) containing one circuit each. c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
[resulting_qasm, # QASM circuit
{"IIZII": 1, "XIZZZ": 2.3}, # Observable
None # parameter values
]],
"version": 2, # this defines the version of the Qiskit Runtime Primitive to use, c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
"options": {
"twirling": {
"enable_gates": True,
"enable_measure": True,
"num_randomizations": "auto",
"shots_per_randomization": "auto",
"strategy": "active-accum",
},
},
}
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=job_input)
if response.status_code == 200:
job_id = response.json().get('id')
print("Job created:",response.text)
else:
print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
```
</TabItem>
</Tabs>
<span id="start-sampler"></span>
## Sampler primitive with REST API
### 1. Initialize the account
Because Qiskit Runtime Sampler is a managed service, you first need to initialize your account. You can then select the device you want to use to run your calculations on.
Find details on how to initialize your account, view available backends, and invalidate tokens in this [topic](./setup-channel#set-up-to-use-ibm-quantum-platform-with-rest-api).
### 2. Create a QASM circuit
You need at least one circuit as the input to the Sampler primitive.
Define a QASM quantum circuit:
```python
qasm_string='''
OPENQASM 3;
include "stdgates.inc";
qreg q[2];
creg c[2];
x q[0];
cx q[0], q[1];
c[0] = measure q[0];
c[1] = measure q[1];
'''
```
The code snippets given below assume that the `qasm_string` has been transpiled to a new string `resulting_qasm`. Find detailed instructions on how to use the Qiskit transpiler service API in this [topic](./transpile-rest-api).
### 3. Run the quantum circuit using Sampler V2 API
<Admonition type="note">
The jobs below use [Qiskit Runtime V2 primitives](/migration-guides/v2-primitives). Both `SamplerV2` and `EstimatorV2` take one or more primitive unified blocs (PUBs) as the input. Each PUB is a tuple that contains one circuit and the data broadcasted to that circuit, which can be multiple observables and parameters. Each PUB returns a result.
</Admonition>
```python
import requests
url = 'https://api.quantum-computing.ibm.com/runtime/jobs'
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-access-token':auth_id,
'x-qx-client-application': 'qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/'+'your_application' # specifying the application you might be running from. For an actual Integration project, this option is invaluable to know where jobs are coming from. At this time the "qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/" string is a necessary prefix.
}
job_input = {
'program_id': 'sampler',
"backend": backend,
"hub": "hub1",
"group": "group1",
"project": "project1",
"start_session": "False", # set to False if you just need to run a single job.
"params": {
"pubs": [[resulting_qasm],[resulting_qasm,None,500]], # primitive unified blocs (PUBs) containing one circuit each. c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
"version": 2 # this defines the version of the Qiskit Runtime Primitive to use, c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
}}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=job_input)
if response.status_code == 200:
job_id = response.json().get('id')
print("Job created:",response.text)
else:
print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
```
### 4. Check job status and get results
Next, pass the `job_id` to the API:
```python
response_status_singlejob= requests.get(url+'/'+job_id, headers=headers)
response_status_singlejob.json().get('state')
```
Output
```text
>>> Job ID: 58223448-5100-4dec-a47a-942fb30edced
>>> Job Status: JobStatus.RUNNING
```
Get job results:
```python
response_result= requests.get(url+'/'+job_id+'/results', headers=headers)
res_dict=response_result.json()
# Get results for the first PUB
counts=res_dict['results'][0]['data']['c']['samples']
print(counts[:20])
```
Output
```text
['0x3', '0x0', '0x2', '0x1', '0x0', '0x3', '0x0', '0x3', '0x1', '0x2', '0x2', '0x0', '0x2', '0x0', '0x3', '0x3', '0x2', '0x0', '0x1', '0x0']
```
### 5. Work with Runtime options
Error mitigation techniques allow users to mitigate circuit errors by modeling the device noise at the time of execution. This typically results in quantum pre-processing overhead related to model training, and classical post-processing overhead to mitigate errors in the raw results by using the generated model.
The error mitigation techniques built in to primitives are advanced resilience options. To specify these options, use the `resilience_level` option when submitting your job.
Sampler V2 does not support specifying resilience levels. However, you can turn on or off individual error mitigation / suppression methods.
The following examples demonstrate the default options for dynamical decoupling and twirling. Find more options and further details in the [Error mitigation and suppression techniques](./error-mitigation-and-suppression-techniques) topic.
<Tabs>
<TabItem value="Dynamical Decoupling" label="Dynamical Decoupling">
```python
import requests
url = 'https://api.quantum-computing.ibm.com/runtime/jobs'
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-access-token':auth_id,
'x-qx-client-application': 'qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/'+'your_application' # specifying the application you might be running from. For an actual Integration project, this option is invaluable to know where jobs are coming from. At this time the "qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/" string is a necessary prefix.
}
job_input = {
'program_id': 'sampler',
"backend": backend,
"hub": "hub1",
"group": "group1",
"project": "project1",
"start_session": "False", # set to False if you just need to run a single job.
"params": {
"pubs": [[resulting_qasm]], # primitive unified blocs (PUBs) containing one circuit each. c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
"version": 2, # this defines the version of the Qiskit Runtime Primitive to use, c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
"options": {
"dynamical_decoupling": {
"enable": True,
"sequence_type": 'XpXm',
"extra_slack_distribution": 'middle',
"scheduling_method": 'alap',
},
},
}
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=job_input)
if response.status_code == 200:
job_id = response.json().get('id')
print("Job created:",response.text)
else:
print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
```
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="Twirling" label="Twirling">
```python
import requests
url = 'https://api.quantum-computing.ibm.com/runtime/jobs'
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-access-token':auth_id,
'x-qx-client-application': 'qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/'+'your_application' # specifying the application you might be running from. For an actual Integration project, this option is invaluable to know where jobs are coming from. At this time the "qiskit-version-2/0.39.2/" string is a necessary prefix.
}
job_input = {
'program_id': 'sampler',
"backend": backend,
"hub": "hub1",
"group": "group1",
"project": "project1",
"start_session": "False", # set to False if you just need to run a single job.
"params": {
"pubs": [[resulting_qasm]], # primitive unified blocs (PUBs) containing one circuit each. c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
"version": 2, # this defines the version of the Qiskit Runtime Primitive to use, c.f. https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-guides/v2-primitives
"options": {
"twirling": {
"enable_gates": True,
"enable_measure": True,
"num_randomizations": "auto",
"shots_per_randomization": "auto",
"strategy": "active-accum",
},
},
}
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=job_input)
if response.status_code == 200:
job_id = response.json().get('id')
print("Job created:",response.text)
else:
print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
```
</TabItem>
</Tabs>
## Next steps
<Admonition type="tip" title="Recommendations">
- There are several ways to run workloads, depending on your needs: job mode, session mode and batch mode. Learn how to work with session mode and batch mode in the [execution modes topic](./execution-modes-rest-api).
- Learn how to [initialize your account](./setup-channel#set-up-to-use-ibm-quantum-platform-with-rest-api) with REST API.
- Learn how to [transpile circuits using REST API](./transpile-rest-api).
- Read [Migrate to V2 primitives](/migration-guides/v2-primitives).
- Practice with primitives by working through the [Cost function lesson](https://learning.quantum.ibm.com/course/variational-algorithm-design/cost-functions#primitives) in IBM Quantum Learning.
- Learn how to transpile locally in the [Transpile](./transpile) section.
</Admonition>