The purpose of this paper is to introduce a Stancu type generalization of the Lupa¸s operators based on the q-integers. We investigate the rate of convergence of operators by mean of modulus of continuity and functions belonging to the Lipschitz class as well as Peetre’s K-functional. The first author is grateful to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, for providing a senior research fellowship under the grant no:(09/1172(0001)/2017-EMR-I). Publisher's Version