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Live fal.ai status, checked every minute from fal.ai's official status page, plus reports from other users.
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fal.ai uptime and outages
Tracked since Oct 7, 2026. Updated Oct 22, 2026, 12:35 UTC.
Recent fal.ai problems
No outages, degraded periods or maintenance recorded since Oct 7, 2026.
Recent fal.ai incidents
Biggest outages and full history →- Investigating slowness and reduced traffic Sep 29, 2026, 08:23 UTC · 19 minutes
- fal.run is unreachable for synchronous requests Sep 4, 2026, 13:58 UTC · 30 minutes
- Request Metrics Lag Jul 20, 2026, 18:30 UTC · 6 hours 11 min
- Degraded outbound DNS from runners Jun 29, 2026, 23:14 UTC · 1 hour 15 min
- Elevated API error rates May 12, 2026, 07:53 UTC · 1 hour 16 min
From fal.ai's official status page. Major and long incidents have their own page with the cause and fix time.
Where fal.ai problems are reported
Where people reported fal.ai problems in the last 24 hours, by country, region and city.
0 in 24 hours0 in the last houras of Oct 22, 2026, 12:35 UTC
Top regions
- No reports in the last 24 hours.
Top cities
- No city has 5 or more reports.
For privacy a city is listed only once 5 or more people there have reported in 24 hours.
Map of user reports in the last 24 hours, not fal.ai's official outage map. Each report is one visitor to this site saying something is not working, placed by the approximate location of their connection. A region in the list means people there reported problems, not that an outage is confirmed.
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[](https://isitupordown.com/is-fal-ai-down/)curl https://isitupordown.com/v1/status/fal-aiWhat to do if fal.ai is not working
- Check the status card at the top of this page. If fal.ai reports an incident, the errors are on their side.
- Retry failed requests with exponential backoff (for example 1, 2, 4, 8 seconds, with some random jitter). Short 500, 502, 503 and 529 errors often clear within minutes.
- A 429 error means a rate limit or quota, not an outage: check your usage limits and tier, and slow down or batch requests.
- A 401 or 403 error usually means the API key is wrong, revoked or out of credit: check the key and your billing page.
- Check the model name: retired or renamed models return errors that look like an outage.
- Keep a fallback: route to another provider or model while fal.ai is down (see the alternatives below), or use a router that switches automatically.
fal.ai outage questions
Is fal.ai down right now?
The card at the top of this page reads fal.ai's official status page live, and times fal.ai's API from our servers every few minutes. If the official page shows an incident, the problem is on fal.ai's side.
When was fal.ai last down?
We have not recorded a fal.ai outage or degraded period since we started tracking it on Oct 7, 2026. Its uptime and the full history are on the fal.ai outage history page.
Why does fal.ai return 500, 502 or 503 errors?
These are server-side errors: the request reached fal.ai but it could not answer. They usually come in bursts during incidents or heavy load. Retry with exponential backoff, and check the status above.
What does a 429 error from fal.ai mean?
429 means too many requests: you hit a rate limit or a usage quota. It is not an outage. Slow down, batch requests, or raise your limit in your fal.ai account.
What can I use while fal.ai is down?
Other image and video apis include Stability AI API, Black Forest Labs, Ideogram API, Leonardo AI, Runway API, Luma AI API. Each has its own status page on this site, so you can check one is working before you switch.
Where is fal.ai's official status page?
fal.ai's official status page is https://status.fal.ai. We read it live at the top of this page.