---
title: BasicProvider (v2.3)
description: API reference for qiskit.providers.basic_provider.BasicProvider in qiskit v2.3
source: https://eu-de.quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/api/qiskit/2.3/qiskit.providers.basic_provider.BasicProvider
---

# BasicProvider

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

[GitHub](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/tree/stable/2.3/qiskit/providers/basic_provider/basic_provider.py#L37-L121)

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

Provider for test simulators.

## Methods

### backends

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

[GitHub](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/tree/stable/2.3/qiskit/providers/basic_provider/basic_provider.py#L64-L82)

Return a list of backends matching the specified filtering. :param name: name of the backend. :param filters: callable 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/2.3/qiskit.providers.Backend "qiskit.providers.Backend")]

**Parameters**

- **name** ([*str*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str) *| None*) –
- **filters** ([*Callable*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html#collections.abc.Callable) *| None*) –

### get\_backend

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

[GitHub](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/tree/stable/2.3/qiskit/providers/basic_provider/basic_provider.py#L46-L62)

Return a single backend matching the specified filtering. :param name: name of the backend. :type name: str :param \*\*kwargs: dict used for filtering.

**Returns**

a backend matching the filtering.

**Return type**

[Backend](/docs/api/qiskit/2.3/qiskit.providers.Backend "qiskit.providers.Backend")

**Raises**

[**QiskitBackendNotFoundError**](/docs/api/qiskit/2.3/providers#qiskit.providers.QiskitBackendNotFoundError "qiskit.providers.QiskitBackendNotFoundError") – if no backend could be found or more than one backend matches the filtering criteria.