In this paper, we are concerned with the inversion of circulant matrices and their quantized tensor‐train (QTT) structure. In particular, we show that the inverse of a complex circulant matrix A$$ A $$, generated by the first column of the form false(a0,…,amprefix−1,0,…,0,aprefix−n,…,aprefix−1false)⊤$$ {\left({a}_0,\dots, {a}_{m-1},0,\dots, 0,{a}_{-n},\dots, {a}_{-1}\right)}^{\top } $$ admits a QTT representation with the QTT ranks bounded by false(m+nfalse)$$ \left(m+n\right) $$. Under certain assumptions on the entries of A$$ A $$, we also derive an explicit QTT representation of Aprefix−1$$ {A}^{-1} $$. The latter can be used, for instance, to overcome stability issues arising when numerically solving differential equations with periodic boundary conditions in the QTT format.