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title: BasicProvider (v0.46)
description: API reference for qiskit.providers.basic_provider.BasicProvider in qiskit v0.46
source: https://eu-de.quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/api/qiskit/0.46/qiskit.providers.basic_provider.BasicProvider
---

# BasicProvider

*class* `qiskit.providers.basic_provider.BasicProvider`

[GitHub](https://github.com/qiskit/qiskit/tree/stable/0.46/qiskit/providers/basic_provider/basic_provider.py)

Bases: [`ProviderV1`](/docs/api/qiskit/0.46/qiskit.providers.ProviderV1 "qiskit.providers.provider.ProviderV1")

Provider for test simulators.

## Attributes

### version

Default value: `1`

## Methods

### backends

`backends(name=None, filters=None, **kwargs)`

Return a list of backends matching the specified filtering.

**Parameters**

- **name** ([*str*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str)) – name of the backend.
- **\*\*kwargs** – dict used for filtering.

**Returns**

**a list of Backends that match the filtering**

criteria.

**Return type**

[list](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list)\[[Backend](/docs/api/qiskit/0.46/qiskit.providers.Backend "qiskit.providers.Backend")]

### get\_backend

`get_backend(name=None, **kwargs)`

Return a single backend matching the specified filtering.

**Parameters**

- **name** ([*str*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str)) – name of the backend.
- **\*\*kwargs** – dict used for filtering.

**Returns**

a backend matching the filtering.

**Return type**

[Backend](/docs/api/qiskit/0.46/qiskit.providers.Backend "qiskit.providers.Backend")

**Raises**

[**QiskitBackendNotFoundError**](/docs/api/qiskit/0.46/providers#qiskit.providers.QiskitBackendNotFoundError "qiskit.providers.QiskitBackendNotFoundError") – if no backend could be found or more than one backend matches the filtering criteria.