| Type of | Number of qubits | Number of | Number of |
| Sentinel | for N sentinels | single qubit gates | two qubit gates |
| Positional | N | from 0 | 0 |
| sentinel | to | ||
| Hidden | from | ||
| sentinel | to | ||
| The resource comparison between positional and hidden sentinels | |||
| is done for N sentinels. | |||