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title: Provider (v1.0)
description: API reference for qiskit.providers.Provider in qiskit v1.0
source: https://eu-de.quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/api/qiskit/1.0/qiskit.providers.Provider
---

# Provider

*class* `qiskit.providers.Provider`

[GitHub](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/tree/stable/1.0/qiskit/providers/provider.py#L20-L29)

Bases: [`object`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#object)

Base common type for all versioned Provider abstract classes.

Note this class should not be inherited from directly, it is intended to be used for type checking. When implementing a provider you should use the versioned abstract classes as the parent class and not this class directly.

## Attributes

### version

Default value: `0`