Live status & reliability report

PayPal status, outages & reliability

#7 of 15 payment processorsOperational

PayPal is a digital payments company whose business products include online checkout, in-person card payments, invoicing and payment APIs.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days PayPal had 99.92% effective uptime across 3 status page incidents, resolving them in 3h 3m on average. Our own monitoring detected 1 outage, 0 of which PayPal acknowledged on its status page.

80.0/100Reliability scoreVisit PayPal ↗

Is PayPal down right now?

No, PayPal is up and running.

  • PayPal's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 3 PayPal pages we check are responding. Checked .

Official PayPal status page ↗

Uptime (90d)99.92%1h 43m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)30.5 per 30 days
Major / partial outages0
Avg time to resolve3h 3m
Outages we detected10 acknowledged by PayPal

90-day uptime

Aug 5, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026: no incidentsSep 22, 2026: 99.26% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 10, 2026: no incidentsOct 11, 2026: 99.59% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 12, 2026: 98.12% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 13, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026: no incidentsOct 22, 2026: 97.29% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 23, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026: no incidentsNov 1, 2026: 98.59% uptime (Outage detected by our probes)Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.920% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about PayPal's reliability

  • Over the past 12 months, PayPal published 3 incidents on its status page, none of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest incident on record in that time was “Detected Resolved: Impact to Online Checkout (PP-LIVE-110330)” on Oct 22, 2026, which lasted 4h 20m.
  • The part of PayPal most often affected was Online Checkout (2 of 3 incidents).
  • PayPal reported 3 incidents in the last 90 days, up from 0 in the 90 days before.
  • PayPal's 90-day uptime of 99.92% is above the average for payment processors (99.09%).
  • It resolves incidents faster than the typical payment processor: 3h 3m on average, against a median of 4h 31m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
92
99.921% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
88
0.50 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
78
3h 3m average
Transparency · 20% weight
50
0 of 1 detected outages acknowledged

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

01234DecJan ’26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug1 degraded performance incident1Sep2 degraded performance incidents2OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of PayPal's public pages, measured by our probes.

0ms971ms1942msNov 1, 2026: 1401msNov 2, 2026: 1765msNov 1, 2026Nov 2, 2026

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

050100Nov 1, 2026: 80Nov 2, 2026: 80Nov 1, 2026Nov 2, 2026

Components currently affected

  • Online Checkout: Operational
  • Retail Checkout: Operational
  • REST APIs: Operational
  • SOAP & NVP APIs: Operational
  • Payflow: Operational
  • Payflow APIs: Operational
  • Retail Checkout > Mobile In-Store: Operational
  • Retail Checkout > PayPal Here: Operational
  • Account > Withdrawals: Operational
  • REST APIs > Refunds: Operational
  • REST APIs > Payments: Operational
  • REST APIs > Invoicing Templates: Operational
  • REST APIs > Authorizations: Operational
  • REST APIs > Identity: Operational
  • REST APIs > Sale: Operational
  • REST APIs > Payout Item: Operational
  • REST APIs > Vault: Operational
  • REST APIs > Billing Agreements: Operational
  • REST APIs > Billing Plans: Operational
  • REST APIs > Payment Experience: Operational
  • REST APIs > Captures: Operational
  • REST APIs > Invoicing: Operational
  • REST APIs > Orders: Operational
  • SOAP & NVP APIs > Credit Card APIs: Operational
  • SOAP & NVP APIs > Permission APIs: Operational
  • SOAP & NVP APIs > Invoicing APIs: Operational
  • SOAP & NVP APIs > Express Checkout APIs: Operational
  • SOAP & NVP APIs > Adaptive APIs: Operational
  • Online Checkout > Payments Pro: Operational
  • Online Checkout > Payments Advanced & Payflow Link: Operational
  • Online Checkout > Payments Standard (WPS): Operational
  • Online Checkout > Express Checkout: Operational
  • Retail Checkout > Paydiant Platform - Sandbox: unknown
  • Retail Checkout > Paydiant Platform - Certification: unknown
  • SOAP & NVP APIs > Button Manager APIs: Operational
  • SOAP & NVP APIs > Mass Payment APIs: Operational
  • Payflow > Payflow Link: Operational
  • Payflow > Payflow Pro: Operational
  • Payflow > Payflow Processors: Operational
  • REST APIs > Retail Checkout: Operational
  • Homepage > PayPal Homepage: Operational
  • Account > Seller Onboarding: Operational
  • Online Checkout > PayPal Complete Payments (PPCP) - Payment Service: Operational
  • Online Checkout > PayPal Complete Payments (PPCP) - Checkout Service: Operational
  • Online Checkout > Pay Links and Buttons: Operational
  • Retail Checkout > PayPal In-Store: Operational

PayPal incident history (last 90 days)

Source: PayPal status page · last checked · Subscribe via RSS

Our independent monitoring

We check these public PayPal pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
Business homepageUp 100%2327 ms
PayPal JS SDK (checkout buttons)Up 100%1085 ms
Developer siteUp 95.36%1156 ms

Outages detected by our probes

  • Detected outageNov 1, 2026, 21:09 UTC · 20m · ams3

    Not reported on status page · timeout

1 outage we detected did not appear on PayPal's status page.

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PayPal status FAQ

Is PayPal down right now?

No, PayPal is up and running. PayPal's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the PayPal pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is PayPal?

PayPal has a reliability score of 80.0 out of 100, ranking #7 of 15 payment processors. Over the last 90 days it had 99.92% effective uptime.

How often does PayPal have outages?

PayPal published 3 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (0 partial or major outages) and 3 in the past 12 months.

How long do PayPal outages last?

PayPal resolves incidents in 3h 3m on average. Its longest incident in the past year lasted 4h 20m, on Oct 22, 2026.

Does PayPal have a status page?

Yes. PayPal's official status page is www.paypal-status.com/product/production. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.