Perplexity API outage on Jun 4, 2026

What happened

Perplexity API reported a partial outage starting Jun 4, 2026, 21:10 UTC. It was marked resolved at Jun 5, 2026, 01:40 UTC.

• The incident lasted 4h 31m from first report to resolution.
• It was the 2nd longest of 8 significant outages Perplexity API reported in the 12 months up to it.
• Perplexity API had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 7 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Perplexity API

This incident has been resolved.

Read Perplexity API's official incident report ↗

What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Perplexity API started after this incident, so this report is based on Perplexity API's status page.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

• Major outageBandwidthJun 4, 2026, 16:00 UTC

  Italy- Inbound and Outbound Call Failures

• Major outageAcuity SchedulingJun 4, 2026, 18:57 UTC

  Acuity Scheduling Elevated Errors

• Partial outagePerplexityJun 4, 2026, 21:10 UTC

  Connector connectivity issues

• Major outageBrexJun 4, 2026, 21:23 UTC

  Slow loading of activity logs and audit trail

• Partial outageQualtricsJun 4, 2026, 21:57 UTC

  Discover US Network Connectivity Issue

• Partial outageGoogle Cloud CDN & Cloud DNSJun 5, 2026, 07:00 UTC

  Network traffic to Google Cloud originating from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and surrounding areas is experiencing intermittent periods of elevated latency and possible packet loss.

• Partial outageGoogle CloudJun 5, 2026, 07:00 UTC

  Network traffic to Google Cloud originating from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and surrounding areas is experiencing intermittent periods of elevated latency and possible packet loss.

Perplexity API's overall reliability

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