Is Perplexity API down? Perplexity status right now

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Perplexity API reliability, last 50 days

Over the last 50 days ModelBank measured 100% uptime for Perplexity API (100% over the last 30 days); no check failed. A further 0.2% of checks were “degraded” — the service answered, but the vendor had posted a minor incident, a single model was failing or responses were slow — and are not counted as downtime. In the same period the official status page posted 5 incidents (0 in the last 30 days), 2 of them major or critical; the median time from posting to resolution was about 37 min. The most recent official incident was “Elevated API errors and timeouts” on 2026-10-09, which lasted 37 min. The current status has held since 16d ago.

Recent major incidents:

• 2026-09-05 — We have identified few connectors that are impacting users.
• 2026-09-03 — Issue with usage based billing

90-day uptime history

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