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---
title: AerProvider
description: API reference for qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider
in_page_toc_min_heading_level: 1
python_api_type: class
python_api_name: qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider
---
# qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider
<Class id="qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider" isDedicatedPage={true} github="https://github.com/qiskit/qiskit-aer/tree/stable/0.8/qiskit/providers/aer/aerprovider.py" signature="AerProvider" modifiers="class">
Provider for Qiskit Aer backends.
### \_\_init\_\_
<Function id="qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider.__init__" signature="__init__()">
Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.
</Function>
## Methods
| | |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| [`__init__`](#qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider.__init__ "qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider.__init__")() | Initialize self. |
| [`backends`](#qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider.backends "qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider.backends")(\[name, filters]) | Return a list of backends matching the specified filtering. |
| [`get_backend`](#qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider.get_backend "qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider.get_backend")(\[name]) | Return a single backend matching the specified filtering. |
## Attributes
| | |
| --------- | - |
| `version` | |
### backends
<Function id="qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider.backends" signature="backends(name=None, filters=None, **kwargs)">
Return a list of backends matching the specified filtering.
**Parameters**
* **name** (*str*) name of the backend.
* **\*\*kwargs** dict used for filtering.
**Returns**
**a list of Backends that match the filtering**
criteria.
**Return type**
list\[[Backend](qiskit.providers.Backend "qiskit.providers.Backend")]
</Function>
### get\_backend
<Function id="qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider.get_backend" signature="get_backend(name=None, **kwargs)">
Return a single backend matching the specified filtering.
**Parameters**
* **name** (*str*) name of the backend.
* **\*\*kwargs** dict used for filtering.
**Returns**
a backend matching the filtering.
**Return type**
[Backend](qiskit.providers.Backend "qiskit.providers.Backend")
**Raises**
[**QiskitBackendNotFoundError**](qiskit.providers.QiskitBackendNotFoundError "qiskit.providers.QiskitBackendNotFoundError") if no backend could be found or more than one backend matches the filtering criteria.
</Function>
</Class>