Outage report · Major outage

Perplexity outage on Aug 13, 2026

Investigating API issue

SeverityMajor outage
StartedAug 13, 2026, 00:45UTC
ResolvedAug 13, 2026, 01:49UTC
Duration1h 4m

What happened

Perplexity reported a major outage starting Aug 13, 2026, 00:45 UTC, affecting App. It was marked resolved at Aug 13, 2026, 01:49 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 1h 4m from first report to resolution.
  • Perplexity had reported 4 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
  • 4 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Perplexity

This incident has been resolved.

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What our independent monitoring saw

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

Other outages around the same time

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

Perplexity's overall reliability

84.0/100

Perplexity has a reliability score of 84.0/100, with 99.83% effective uptime and 8 incidents over the last 90 days.

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