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Black Forest Labs outage on Oct 29, 2025: what happened

On Oct 29, 2025, the Black Forest Labs status page reported "Global Outage". About 42 hours 23 min: from Oct 29, 2025, 16:01 UTC to Oct 31, 2025, 10:24 UTC, by the official start and resolution times.

Started

Oct 29, 2025, 16:01 UTC

Resolved

Oct 31, 2025, 10:24 UTC

Duration

42 hours 23 min

Official impact

Critical

Affected

FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra, FLUX.1 Fill [pro], FLUX.1 Canny [pro], FLUX.1 Depth [pro], FLUX .1 Kontext [pro], FLUX.1 Kontext [max], Image Generation Services - Flux 1.1 [pro], Image Generation Services - Flux .1 [pro], Image Generation Services - Flux .1 [dev], Image Generation Services - Flux 1.1 [pro] Ultra, Image Generation Services - FLUX.1 Fill [pro], Image Generation Services - FLUX.1 Canny [pro], Image Generation Services - FLUX.1 Depth [pro], Image Generation Services - FLUX .1 Kontext [pro], Image Generation Services - Flux .1 Kontext [max]

Source

Global Outage on the Black Forest Labs status page

The Black Forest Labs status page rated it "Critical", its highest impact level: an outage of the affected parts, not only slowness.

What caused the Black Forest Labs outage?

The Black Forest Labs status page has not published a cause. When it identified the problem at 16:01 UTC on Oct 29, 2025, it said: "Azure is currently experience issues resulting in a full outage in our image generation services. We are awaiting a status update from them."

When was it fixed?

The Black Forest Labs status page marked it resolved at Oct 31, 2025, 10:24 UTC, 42 hours 23 min after it started. A fix was in place and being monitored from Oct 29, 2025, 20:25 UTC. Its resolution note: "Our third party had resolved their issue be we kept monitoring closely, we trust the stability now."

Timeline of official updates

Every update the Black Forest Labs status page posted, oldest first. Times are UTC.

1. Oct 29, 2025, 16:01 UTC identified

   Azure is currently experience issues resulting in a full outage in our image generation services. We are awaiting a status update from them.

2. Oct 29, 2025, 19:04 UTC identified

   We have implemented a mitigation to the problem. Please use regional endpoints for now: `https://api.eu2.bfl.ai` and `https://api.eu4.bfl.ai/`

3. Oct 29, 2025, 20:25 UTC monitoring

   A fix has been implemented. Please use the global endpoint: https://api.bfl.ai. DNS cache needs to be flushed. Regional endpoints: api.us.bfl.ai and api.eu.bfl.ai are not functional at the moment.

4. Oct 30, 2025, 00:28 UTC monitoring

   A fix has been implemented. Please use the global endpoint: https://api.bfl.ai. Regional endpoints are also now operational: `api.eu.bfl.ai`, and `api.us.bfl.ai`

5. Oct 30, 2025, 00:45 UTC monitoring

   A fix has been implemented. Please use the global endpoint: https://api.bfl.ai. Regional endpoints are also now operational: `api.eu.bfl.ai`, and `api.us.bfl.ai` As part of our cloud-outage mitigation, we've temporarily moved delivery to the following Azure Blob endpoints. Please whitelist them: - *.blob.core.windows.net We intend to switch back to our standard domains (delivery.*.bfl.ai and delivery-*.bfl.ai) as soon as it's viable. We recommend keeping those domains whitelisted as well, if they aren't already. Note: there's a difference between delivery.*.bfl.ai and delivery-*.bfl.ai. Please ensure both patterns are allowed.

6. Oct 31, 2025, 10:22 UTC identified

   Apologies, false status update

7. Oct 31, 2025, 10:24 UTC resolved

   Our third party had resolved their issue be we kept monitoring closely, we trust the stability now.

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