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Perplexity outage history

Perplexity published 25 incidents on its official status page since Aug 24, 2026, 7 of them rated at the highest impact level. None was major or long enough for its own page. Below them is every smaller incident, then our own 90 day check history.

Is Perplexity down right now? →Perplexity official status page

Every smaller Perplexity incident

Minor and short incidents from the Perplexity status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.

October 2026

  • Oct 9, 2026, 22:38 UTC · Elevated API errors and timeouts

    37 minutes · rated "Minor"

    "The issue affecting the Website, App, and Computer has been resolved. All services are operational. The API remained operational throughout this incident."

September 2026

August 2026

Perplexity uptime, last 90 days

Tracked since Oct 7, 2026. Updated Oct 22, 2026, 12:35 UTC.

Uptime100%
Avg response173 ms
Problems, 30 days0
Last problemNone recorded
90 days agoUp Degraded Down No dataToday

Every Perplexity problem in the last 90 days

No outages, degraded periods or maintenance recorded since Oct 7, 2026.

Day by day

Day (UTC)UptimeAvg responseWorst
Oct 22, 2026100%105 msUp
Oct 21, 2026100%148 msUp
Oct 20, 2026100%151 msUp
Oct 19, 2026100%141 msUp
Oct 18, 2026100%142 msUp
Oct 17, 2026100%155 msUp
Oct 16, 2026100%235 msUp
Oct 15, 2026100%258 msUp
Oct 14, 2026100%250 msUp
Oct 13, 2026100%249 msUp
Oct 12, 2026100%247 msUp
Oct 11, 2026100%189 msUp
Oct 10, 2026100%108 msUp
Oct 9, 2026100%113 msUp
Oct 8, 2026100%120 msUp
Oct 7, 2026100%154 msUp

Perplexity outage questions

Was Perplexity down today?

No. We recorded no Perplexity outage, degraded period or maintenance today (Oct 22, 2026, UTC).

Was Perplexity down yesterday?

No. We recorded no Perplexity outage, degraded period or maintenance yesterday (Oct 21, 2026, UTC).

When was Perplexity last down?

The latest incident on the Perplexity status page started Oct 9, 2026, 22:38 UTC: Elevated API errors and timeouts (37 minutes).

How often does Perplexity go down?

Perplexity's status page posted 25 incidents since Aug 24, 2026, 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 Perplexity 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.