The construction of compact star models with quintessence and cloud of strings anisotropic fluid lays the foundation for the research presented in this paper, which focuses on the ansatz of f(Q) gravity. We utilized a spherically symmetric spacetime to derive the field equations incorporating quintessence and cloud of strings anisotropic matter fields. The well-known Karmarkar condition was employed to obtain the gravitational components of the spherically symmetric spacetime. The constant parameters used in the study were obtained by applying junction conditions on the interior and exterior spacetimes. We used the mass and radius of [Formula: see text], which are already present in the literature. Afterward, we calculated the important properties of quintessence stars in the presence of cloud of strings to ensure the stability and physical presence of compact models. To achieve this goal, we studied features such as energy density, quintessence density, pressure profiles, gradients, anisotropic factor, energy conditions, sound speeds, TOV forces, EoS components, mass function, compactification and redshift.