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Black Forest Labs outage history
Black Forest Labs published 47 incidents on its official status page since Oct 22, 2025, 2 of them rated at the highest impact level. 6 were major or long incidents with their own pages; the biggest are listed first. Below them is every smaller incident, then our own 90 day check history.
Biggest Black Forest Labs outages
Ranked by the official impact level, then by how long they lasted. Each has its own page with the cause, the fix time and every official update.
- Oct 29, 2025: Global Outage 42 hours 23 min · rated "Critical"
- Apr 9, 2026: Increased error rate for /v1/flux-kontext-max 26 hours 17 min · rated "Major"
- Sep 29, 2026: EU cluster increased latencies 20 hours 15 min · rated "Major"
- Aug 4, 2026: Flux 3 Launch Traffic 17 hours 43 min · rated "Major"
- Dec 17, 2025: Auth + Credit Issues 6 hours 58 min · rated "Major"
- Nov 6, 2025: Kontext Max slow down 3 hours 33 min · rated "Major"
Every smaller Black Forest Labs incident
Minor and short incidents from the Black Forest Labs status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.
September 2026
Sep 8, 2026, 04:43 UTC · US region increased latencies
6 hours 31 min · marked as no impact
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
August 2026
Aug 25, 2026, 04:51 UTC · Please avoid cluster specific endpoints.
duration not stated · marked as no impact
"After the maintenance on our US3 cluster, the regional endpoint api.us3.bfl.ai is no longer valid, however we are still receiving traffic from certain users. Please ensure to only ever use the global api.bfl.ai or regional api..bfl."
Aug 19, 2026, 19:47 UTC · EU region cluster outage
4 hours 51 min · rated "Minor"
"Full capacity restored to api.eu.bfl.ai"
Aug 19, 2026, 11:15 UTC · Cluster Down - FLUX.2 [flex] Traffic Impacted
7 hours 42 min · rated "Minor"
"FLUX.2 [flex] restored - vendor mitigation in place with full recover observed"
Aug 19, 2026, 01:05 UTC · Extended flux-3-video generation times
2 hours 38 min · rated "Major"
"Observing full recovery."
Aug 13, 2026, 18:26 UTC · US4 region increased latencies
27 minutes · marked as no impact
"A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."
Aug 13, 2026, 05:16 UTC · Regional outage - elevated response times on some calls
1 hour 49 min · rated "Minor"
"This is a minor issue isolated to a portion of our US infrastructure. We have isolated the problem and are working to restore api to full serving capacity"
July 2026
Jul 21, 2026, 11:02 UTC · US3 cluster intermittent latency increase
5 hours 8 min · marked as no impact
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
June 2026
Jun 18, 2026, 16:06 UTC · High demand causing degraded performance in some regions
duration not stated · marked as no impact
"Large increase in traffic to our services is causing delays in image generation. We are working to balance traffic and bring down the time it takes to receive you images!"
May 2026
May 6, 2026, 15:29 UTC · High Latency
3 hours 23 min · rated "Minor"
"We're experiencing higher latency on our EU2 cluster. We're investigating the root cause."
May 4, 2026, 12:18 UTC · Elevated error rates
1 hour 23 min · marked as no impact
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
April 2026
Apr 28, 2026, 15:07 UTC · EU region increased error rates in one of the clusters
12 hours 7 min · marked as no impact
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Apr 22, 2026, 17:29 UTC · Klein endpoint error rate
27 minutes · rated "Critical"
"This incident has been resolved."
Apr 13, 2026, 22:58 UTC · Moderation Outage - Increased api failures
32 minutes · rated "Major"
"A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."
Apr 7, 2026, 16:10 UTC · 500 error rates increase
1 hour 12 min · marked as no impact
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Apr 1, 2026, 20:32 UTC · Image Generation Failures (Internal Error)
1 hour 33 min · rated "Minor"
"Image generation is experience internal errors, issue has been identified and fix is underway"
March 2026
Mar 31, 2026, 08:41 UTC · Latency increase
10 hours 46 min · marked as no impact
"We are experiencing above average load and working to mitigate this."
Mar 26, 2026, 14:51 UTC · EU region downstream provider issues
32 minutes · marked as no impact
"This incident has been resolved."
Mar 25, 2026, 17:38 UTC · Flux Kontext Pro increased latencies
1 hour 54 min · rated "Minor"
"This incident has been resolved."
Mar 24, 2026, 23:30 UTC · EU cluster increased error rates
24 hours · marked as no impact
"Infrastructure maintenance operation in EU2 region caused temporary disruptions to request processing, resulting in elevated error rates for approximately two hours. The issue resolved automatically and all services are operating normally."
Mar 23, 2026, 08:10 UTC · US api endpoint error rate
14 hours 44 min · rated "Minor"
"Noting that this should not affect customers using the primary global or regional endpoints noted in the Docs here: https://docs.bfl.ai/quick_start/generating_images#legacy-regional-endpoints."
Mar 20, 2026, 13:10 UTC · Flux-2-pro increased latency
20 minutes · marked as no impact
"This incident has been resolved."
Mar 18, 2026, 13:30 UTC · Increased latency and error rates
duration not stated · marked as no impact
"Temporary disruption with a downstream provider in the moderation chain. The issue is resolved as the downstream service recovered."
Mar 18, 2026, 13:26 UTC · Cluster component outage caused increased error rates and latency.
duration not stated · marked as no impact
"A critical component in one regional cluster was failing which resulted in increased latency and error rates. A fix has been deployed to prevent this issue in the future."
Mar 13, 2026, 07:46 UTC · flux-kontext-v2-3k issues in US region
14 minutes · marked as no impact
"This incident has been resolved."
Mar 5, 2026, 09:29 UTC · Increased latency on Flux 2 preview
30 minutes · marked as no impact
"This incident has been resolved."
February 2026
Feb 24, 2026, 10:33 UTC · Increased latency in EU2
2 hours 45 min · marked as no impact
"We're investigating an increase in latency in a single EU cluster, EU2, for a few of our models."
Feb 23, 2026, 18:25 UTC · Long Response Times
4 hours 31 min · rated "Minor"
"We are investigating an issue with some generations taking a longer amount of time than usual"
Feb 23, 2026, 10:23 UTC · Increased 500x error rate
26 minutes · marked as no impact
"Customers experience error 500 on some endpoints. We are looking into it."
January 2026
Jan 12, 2026, 08:47 UTC · Some requests can return empty results
7 hours 39 min · marked as no impact
"Issue is identified and we are working on a fix. This affects only Flux.2."
December 2025
Dec 26, 2025, 13:25 UTC · Increased error rate on Flux2 endpoint
2 hours 59 min · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and fix is being worked on."
Dec 3, 2025, 04:14 UTC · 429 errors on some clusters
4 hours 58 min · rated "Minor"
"Incident has been resolved."
November 2025
Nov 25, 2025, 04:42 UTC · US2 Bad Gateway / Unresponsive
1 hour 55 min · rated "Minor"
"The incident has now been resolved."
Nov 20, 2025, 20:53 UTC · Elevated Latency
16 hours 43 min · rated "Minor"
"We are investigating an issue with elevated latency."
Nov 20, 2025, 17:47 UTC · Elevated Latency
2 hours 4 min · rated "Minor"
"The incident has been resolved"
Nov 18, 2025, 18:06 UTC · Latency increase on some endpoints
1 hour 58 min · rated "Minor"
"The incident has been resolved now."
Nov 17, 2025, 15:56 UTC · Increase latency
11 minutes · rated "Minor"
"The incident is now resolved."
Nov 4, 2025, 20:55 UTC · Increase Latency on our clusters
1 hour 8 min · rated "Minor"
"The incident has been resolved"
October 2025
Oct 28, 2025, 18:16 UTC · Increased Latency of US1 Cluster
41 minutes · rated "Minor"
"We identified and resolved the issue."
Oct 22, 2025, 08:19 UTC · US1 Slowdown
1 hour 28 min · rated "Minor"
"Scaling is stable again."
Black Forest Labs uptime, last 90 days
Tracked since Oct 7, 2026. Updated Oct 22, 2026, 12:35 UTC.
Every Black Forest Labs problem in the last 90 days
- Maintenance
Service Under Maintenance
Oct 19, 2026, 06:15 UTC · lasted 4 hours · from Black Forest Labs's official status page
- Maintenance
API (api.bfl.ai): under maintenance
Oct 7, 2026, 22:03 UTC · lasted 24 hours 4 min · from Black Forest Labs's official status page
Day by day
| Day (UTC) | Uptime | Avg response | Worst |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2026 | 100% | 204 ms | Up |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 100% | 208 ms | Up |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 100% | 237 ms | Up |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 100% | 228 ms | Maintenance |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 100% | 245 ms | Up |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 100% | 262 ms | Up |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 100% | 303 ms | |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 100% | 457 ms | |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 100% | 370 ms | |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 100% | 282 ms | Up |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 100% | 282 ms | Up |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 100% | 242 ms | Up |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 100% | 104 ms | Up |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 100% | 145 ms | Up |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 100% | 175 ms | Maintenance |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 100% | 96 ms | Maintenance |
Black Forest Labs outage questions
Was Black Forest Labs down today?
No. We recorded no Black Forest Labs outage, degraded period or maintenance today (Oct 22, 2026, UTC).
Was Black Forest Labs down yesterday?
No. We recorded no Black Forest Labs outage, degraded period or maintenance yesterday (Oct 21, 2026, UTC).
When was Black Forest Labs last down?
The latest problem was on Oct 19, 2026, 06:15 UTC and lasted 4 hours: Service Under Maintenance.
What was the biggest Black Forest Labs outage?
Of the incidents on record since Oct 22, 2025, the biggest was on Oct 29, 2025: Global Outage. The Black Forest Labs status page rated it "Critical" and it lasted 42 hours 23 min.
How often does Black Forest Labs go down?
Black Forest Labs's status page posted 47 incidents since Oct 22, 2025, 1 of them in the last 30 days. Most incidents affect part of the service, not all of it. Uptime from our own checks over the last 90 days: 100%.
Times are UTC. Official incidents are the company's own posts, quoted from the Black Forest Labs status page. Problem periods start when the official status page or our checks first show a problem and end when the service is next found working, so durations are accurate to within a few minutes. Recent outages across all services.