Easy processability and high stability are key features of methylammonium lead bromide (CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 )-based perovskite solar cells. The main focus of the present work was to fabricate and evaluate the stability of CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 quantum dot (QD)-based perovskite solar cells. We used an ex situ solution process to synthesize CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 QDs and then successfully fabricated mesoscopic solid-state perovskite solar cells. We also studied the influence of different CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 QD sizes and different holetransporting materials (HTMs), 2,2′,7,7′-tetrakis-(N,N-di-4-methoxyphenylamino)-9,9′-spirobifluorene (spiro-MeOTAD) and poly[bis (4-phenyl)(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)amine] (PTAA), on the solar cell performance. The size of the CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 QDs was controlled by the solution processing parameters. Our controlled results show that spiro-MeOTAD-and PTAA-based devices exhibited, respectively, an open-circuit voltage (V OC ) of 0.991 and 1.091 V and a current density (J SC ) of 11.68 and 12.05 mA cm − 2 , which resulted in an average power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.35 and 9.44% under a standard 100 mW cm − 2 illumination without masking. Our best-performing cell, which contains the FTO/Bl-TiO 2 /mp-TiO 2 +CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 (~2-nm QDs)/PTAA/Au configuration shows the following results: open-circuit voltage (V OC ) = 1.110 V, current density (J SC ) = 14.07 mA cm − 2 , fill factor = 0.73 and an 11.40% PCE. Furthermore, the CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 -based devices are stable for more than four months.