Live status & reliability report

Perplexity API status, outages & reliability

#1 of 11 LLM API providersOperational

The Perplexity API (Sonar) gives developers access to Perplexity's search-grounded answer models.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days Perplexity API had 99.94% effective uptime across 3 status page incidents (1 partial or major outage), resolving them in 36m on average.

93.8/100Reliability scoreVisit Perplexity API ↗

Is Perplexity API down right now?

No, Perplexity API is up and running.

  • Perplexity API's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 2 Perplexity API pages we check are responding. Checked .

Official Perplexity API status page ↗

Uptime (90d)99.94%1h 11m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)30.7 per 30 days
Major / partial outages1
Avg time to resolve36m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026: no incidentsAug 11, 2026: 99.94% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 12, 2026: no incidentsAug 13, 2026: 95.53% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 14, 2026 – Oct 8, 2026: no incidentsOct 9, 2026: 99.61% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 10, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.945% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about Perplexity API's reliability

  • Over the past 12 months, Perplexity API published 12 incidents on its status page, 9 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Connector connectivity issues” on Jun 4, 2026, which lasted 4h 31m.
  • The part of Perplexity API most often affected was App (2 of 12 incidents).
  • Perplexity API reported 3 incidents in the last 90 days, down from 5 in the 90 days before.
  • Incidents most often began on a Thursday (5 of 12, UTC).
  • Perplexity API's 90-day uptime of 99.94% is above the average for LLM API providers (99.34%).
  • It resolves incidents faster than the typical LLM API provider: 36m on average, against a median of 2h 22m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
95
99.946% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
85
0.67 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
95
36m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

012341 major outage incident1DecJan ’261 major outage incident1 partial outage incident2FebMarApr1 degraded performance incident1May1 major outage incident1 partial outage incident2Jun1 major outage incident1 partial outage incident2Jul1 major outage incident1 degraded performance incident2AugSep1 degraded performance incident1OctNov
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  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

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

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

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Perplexity API incident history (last 90 days)

Source: Perplexity API status page · last checked

Our independent monitoring

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

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
Chat completions endpoint (unauthenticated GET)Up 100%204 ms
API docsUp 100%715 ms

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Perplexity API status FAQ

Is Perplexity API down right now?

No, Perplexity API is up and running. Perplexity API's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 2 of the Perplexity API pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is Perplexity API?

Perplexity API has a reliability score of 93.8 out of 100, ranking #1 of 11 LLM API providers. Over the last 90 days it had 99.94% effective uptime.

How often does Perplexity API have outages?

Perplexity API published 3 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (1 partial or major outage) and 12 in the past 12 months.

How long do Perplexity API outages last?

Perplexity API resolves incidents in 36m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 4h 31m, on Jun 4, 2026.

Does Perplexity API have a status page?

Yes. Perplexity API's official status page is status.perplexity.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.