Black Opal is Q-CTRL’s interactive education product. Their public pages currently describe 12 skills, 500-plus activities, and a simulator, with no physics prerequisite. A free Learn tier samples the beginner skills (Introduction, Superposition, Qubits, Measurement). Pro, listed at 19.99 USD per month on q-ctrl.com/black-opal/pricing, includes beginner and intermediate skills. Enterprise and educator plans add advanced skills, exams, LMS, and cohort tools. Confirm live pricing on that page.
The published curriculum groups as follows.
Fundamentals (beginner): Introduction, Superposition, Qubits, Measurement.
Core skills (intermediate to advanced): Circuits, Entanglement, Noise, Control, Speedup (Deutsch-Jozsa, Shor, Grover), Programming (compiling, topology, a visual coding environment).
Applications: Logistics (routing, QAOA, a “quantum utility” topic) and a finance skill covering option pricing and quantum Monte Carlo. Q-CTRL has also described further verticals such as biotech. Check the live product for which application skills are actually unlocked on your plan.
Q-CTRL issues its own completion badges and certificates (their pages name Quantum Fundamentals and Quantum Professional on higher tiers). That is their credential, not this site’s.
Black Opal is a visual product, not a university course and not a Qiskit notebook. For open code you can copy, use this site’s tutorials. For a live workshop on hardware with Fire Opal, see Black Opal instructor-led training.
Who it is for
Beginners who prefer diagrams to lectures. Teams buying workforce seats. Not a research SDK course.
Related
- Qiskit Hello World if you want Python on day one.
- QURECA Quantum for Everyone 2.0 for a long-form non-technical paid course.
- Team training if you are buying seats for a cohort.
Topics covered
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Black Opal (Q-CTRL) is a paid course, at beginner level, and runs Self-paced.
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