JPMorgan Chase
via IBM + IonQ
Portfolio optimization and option-pricing research on superconducting and trapped-ion hardware; multi-year multi-vendor commitment.
Since 2021·USA · NY
Vol. III·Sector Coverage·Deployments
Where money actually changed hands
Boulder · Colorado
curated · live registry
curated · live registry
The real deployments
A curated registry of paying-customer quantum workloads. We track who bought, what they're running, who they bought from, and how mature the program actually is.
A logo on a slide is a marketing milestone. A renewed purchase order is a deployment.
— the inclusion test for this registry
Most "quantum customer" lists are press-release composites — every Quantum Network member, every workshop attendee, every academic co-author. This one is narrower. Each entry below describes a specific workload, a specific vendor, and a contract the customer has elected to renew at least once. The status chip distinguishes Research (academic-track partnerships and grant-funded proofs), Pilot (production-adjacent, scoped budget, sponsor named) and Production (recurring spend integrated into the customer's planning stack).
We update the registry as deals expand, contract or move between statuses — and we remove names when a program is wound down. The point of the page is not to sell the sector. It is to give the reader a working answer to the question "is anyone actually using this stuff?" — and to make the answer specific.
Finance · 4 deployments
The banks
Production
BBVA
via Multiverse Computing
Tensor-network-driven portfolio rebalancing; one of the earliest paying European banking pilots.
Since 2019·ESP · Bilbao
Goldman Sachs
via IonQ · QC Ware
Quantum-accelerated Monte Carlo risk simulation; preprint demonstrated quadratic speedup on credit-risk workloads.
Since 2020·USA · NY
HSBC
via Quantinuum
Fraud-detection prototype built on H-series trapped-ion processors; expanded into FX pricing models in 2024.
Since 2023·UK · London
Pharma & Life Sciences · 4 deployments
Drug discovery pilots
Roche
via Quantinuum (InQuanto)
Molecular-dynamics simulations on hybrid quantum-classical stack; renewed for a third year in 2025.
Since 2023·CHE · Basel
Cleveland Clinic
via IBM
On-premise IBM Quantum System One — first dedicated healthcare quantum installation.
Since 2023·USA · OH
Pfizer
via IBM · IonQ
Protein-folding research with multi-vendor hybrid stack; published 2024 preprint on conformational sampling.
Since 2021·USA · NY
Boehringer Ingelheim
via Google Quantum AI
Molecular-simulation research partnership; renewed and expanded into materials chemistry in 2024.
Since 2021·DEU · Ingelheim
Automotive · 3 deployments
On the assembly line
Volkswagen Group
via D-Wave
Traffic-flow optimization deployed in pilot cities; oldest continuous annealing program in the cohort.
Since 2017·DEU · Wolfsburg
BMW Group
via Pasqal
Neutral-atom simulation of battery-cathode materials; pilot moved to a second production lane in early 2026.
Since 2024·DEU · Munich
Mercedes-Benz
via PsiQuantum
Battery-cell chemistry simulation; multi-year framework agreement signed alongside PsiQuantum Series E.
Since 2023·DEU · Stuttgart
Aerospace & Defense · 4 deployments
Aerospace & defense
Lockheed Martin
via D-Wave
Software-verification workloads on annealers — the earliest commercial quantum customer of record.
Since 2011·USA · MD
Airbus
via QuEra
Neutral-atom flight-loading optimization; extends earlier Airbus Quantum Challenge prize workloads into production tooling.
Since 2024·FRA · Toulouse
Boeing
via IonQ
Composite-material simulation on trapped-ion systems; co-authored a 2024 paper on vibration-mode estimation.
Since 2022·USA · WA
BAE Systems
via Riverlane
Real-time decoder integration for fault-tolerant stack research; UK NCQC participant.
Since 2024·UK · Farnborough
Energy · 3 deployments
Catalyst & subsurface
ExxonMobil
via IBM
Catalyst-discovery simulations on superconducting hardware; oldest continuously-renewed IBM Quantum Network partnership in the energy sector.
Since 2019·USA · TX
TotalEnergies
via Pasqal
CO₂-capture material modelling on neutral-atom processors; expanded into hydrogen-carrier research in 2025.
Since 2023·FRA · Paris
Equinor
via IBM
Seismic-imaging research on IBM Quantum Network — early subsurface-modelling proof of concept.
Since 2022·NOR · Stavanger
Government & Research · 4 deployments
Sovereign buyers
NASA Ames
via D-Wave
Mission-trajectory optimization on annealers; one of the longest-running US government quantum installations.
Since 2017·USA · CA
DARPA
via QBI cohort (11)
Quantum Benchmarking Initiative — sovereign technical audit of utility-scale roadmaps across 11 Stage B performers, ceiling $15M each.
Since 2023·USA · VA
UK NQCC
via Quantum Motion · Oxford Quantum Circuits
On-premise full-stack silicon-CMOS quantum computer (Sep 2025) — industry-first sovereign install.
Since 2025·UK · Harwell
CERN openlab
via IBM · IonQ
High-energy-physics workload encoding research; co-published on quantum amplitude estimation for collision simulations.
Since 2021·CHE · Geneva
We do not list every academic co-author or workshop attendee. The registry only catalogs contracts a buying side has elected to renew.
— deployment-registry methodology