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Speechmatics outage history
Speechmatics published 28 incidents on its official status page since Oct 21, 2025, 5 of them rated at the highest impact level. 4 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 Speechmatics 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: Outage affecting Portal, Batch SaaS API and Management Platform API 15 hours 8 min · rated "Critical"
- Jan 6, 2026: Batch SaaS US1 - API call failures 2 hours 46 min · rated "Critical"
- Jul 16, 2026: portal.speechmatics.com - Outage 2 hours 15 min · rated "Critical"
- May 15, 2026: portal.speechmatics.com - Outage 1 hour 22 min · rated "Critical"
Every smaller Speechmatics incident
Minor and short incidents from the Speechmatics status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.
September 2026
Sep 10, 2026, 20:33 UTC · RT SaaS USA - SSL connection errors
2 hours 4 min · rated "Major"
"We are currently rolling out a fix and expected to complete in less than 30 minutes."
Sep 4, 2026, 20:52 UTC · RT SaaS - Users experiencing 4003 errors
38 minutes · rated "Critical"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
August 2026
Aug 19, 2026, 16:21 UTC · Batch SaaS EU1/US1/US2 - Degraded performance
duration not stated · rated "Minor"
"We have identified an issue that caused a subset of customer jobs to fail or process more slowly in Batch SaaS EU1, US1 and US2 between 15:38 to 16:34 BST."
Aug 10, 2026, 16:33 UTC · Batch SaaS AU - Partial Degradation
duration not stated · rated "Minor"
"We identified an issue that caused degraded performance in our Batch SaaS AU region between 14:00 - 16:00 UTC. Customers may see delays processing some of the jobs. Our team has restored service to normal performance levels."
Aug 3, 2026, 09:22 UTC · Management Platform - Service credits applied incorrectly
6 hours 10 min · marked as no impact
"We have fixed the problem and issued refunds to the affected customers. Please email support if you still believe you are having issues. Once again, we're sorry for any inconvenience caused by this issue."
July 2026
Jul 30, 2026, 15:45 UTC · Realtime SaaS US - Degraded performance
duration not stated · rated "Minor"
"We identified a subset of customer session failures in our Realtime SaaS - US region between 15:15 to 15:35 UTC. Our team has restored the service to normal performance levels. We apologise for any inconvenience."
May 2026
May 18, 2026, 10:30 UTC · Batch SaaS US2 - Slow processing of jobs due to degraded fetch service
duration not stated · rated "Minor"
"From 03:00 UTC to 10:30 UTC, processing times for a subset of jobs increased due to degraded performance in the fetch service affecting jobs submitted with the fetch_data configuration."
May 1, 2026, 16:15 UTC · Slow processing of jobs in Batch SaaS US1 endpoint
1 hour 35 min · rated "Minor"
"We have identified a problem which is affecting the processing time of jobs in our Batch SaaS US1 endpoint. For faster processing times, please use the Batch SaaS US2 endpoint. This issue is currently being investigated."
April 2026
Apr 24, 2026, 13:32 UTC · Investigating - Degraded performance
17 hours 50 min · rated "Minor"
"We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue."
Apr 21, 2026, 07:45 UTC · Investigating - Degraded performance
5 hours 13 min · rated "Minor"
"After monitoring this incident, we can confirm it has now been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you are still facing issues with the service, please reach out to our support team here https://support.speechmatics.com."
Apr 17, 2026, 02:49 UTC · Investigating - Degraded performance in Batch SaaS Australia region
1 hour 5 min · rated "Minor"
"We're currently experiencing degraded performance in our Batch SaaS AU region. Customers may see delays is processing jobs for audio duration > 12 mins. Our team is currently working to restore normal performance levels."
Apr 10, 2026, 11:58 UTC · Degraded service in billing reporting
5 days 21 hours · rated "Minor"
"We are currently investigating an issue with our billing service which may delay usage appearing on the Billing page in the portal."
Apr 7, 2026, 11:20 UTC · Slow processing of jobs in Batch SaaS EU2 endpoint
4 hours 43 min · rated "Minor"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
February 2026
Feb 11, 2026, 15:26 UTC · Transient Capacity Constraint - Realtime SaaS USA
2 hours 4 min · marked as no impact
""Between 15:06 UTC and 15:10 UTC, a small percentage of customers experienced increased error rates and delayed connections. This issue is resolved and we continue to monitor the situation."
Feb 2, 2026, 21:57 UTC · Slow processing of jobs in Batch SaaS US1 endpoint
1 hour 16 min · rated "Minor"
"The root cause has been identified as an issue with our third-party cloud provider. We expect a mitigation to be in place by 00:00 UTC."
January 2026
Jan 7, 2026, 06:55 UTC · Batch SaaS US1 - API call slowness and failures
2 hours 49 min · rated "Minor"
"We're currently experiencing an degraded performance in our Batch SaaS US1 region. Customers may see API call failures and delays. Our team is currently working to restore availability and normal performance levels."
December 2025
Dec 11, 2025, 15:37 UTC · Increased connect time to Realtime SaaS - US
2 hours 10 min · rated "Minor"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Dec 8, 2025, 13:22 UTC · portal.speechmatics.com
2 hours 20 min · rated "Minor"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
November 2025
Nov 25, 2025, 15:31 UTC · Usage Reporting (usage.speechmatics.com) - Partial outage
duration not stated · rated "Minor"
"We have identified an issue connecting to usage reporting (usage.speechmatics.com) between 15:10 UTC to 15:15 UTC. Mitigations have been applied since then to fix the problem and service has been restored to normal operational level."
Nov 19, 2025, 17:47 UTC · Increased job processing times in batch USA
2 hours 49 min · rated "Minor"
"We have identified an issue with jobs processing in Batch USA, jobs will experience increased processing times."
October 2025
Oct 27, 2025, 13:36 UTC · Partial portal outage
8 minutes · rated "Major"
"This incident has been resolved. Sign-ups and access of billing details in the portal should now be fully operational."
Oct 21, 2025, 09:30 UTC · Increased Initial Connection Times in RT EU
3 hours 8 min · rated "Minor"
"We have taken steps to mitigate the issue while we continue to resolve."
Speechmatics uptime, last 90 days
Tracked since Oct 7, 2026. Updated Oct 22, 2026, 12:35 UTC.
Every Speechmatics problem in the last 90 days
No outages, degraded periods or maintenance recorded since Oct 7, 2026.
Day by day
| Day (UTC) | Uptime | Avg response | Worst |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2026 | 100% | 450 ms | Up |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 100% | 564 ms | Up |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 100% | 543 ms | Up |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 100% | 536 ms | Up |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 100% | 517 ms | Up |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 100% | 549 ms | Up |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 100% | 863 ms | |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 100% | 978 ms | |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 100% | 990 ms | |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 100% | 1005 ms | |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 100% | 982 ms | Up |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 100% | 621 ms | Up |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 100% | 101 ms | Up |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 100% | 101 ms | |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 100% | 90 ms | Up |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 100% | 186 ms | Up |
Speechmatics outage questions
Was Speechmatics down today?
No. We recorded no Speechmatics outage, degraded period or maintenance today (Oct 22, 2026, UTC).
Was Speechmatics down yesterday?
No. We recorded no Speechmatics outage, degraded period or maintenance yesterday (Oct 21, 2026, UTC).
When was Speechmatics last down?
The latest incident on the Speechmatics status page started Sep 10, 2026, 20:33 UTC: RT SaaS USA - SSL connection errors (2 hours 4 min).
What was the biggest Speechmatics outage?
Of the incidents on record since Oct 21, 2025, the biggest was on Oct 29, 2025: Outage affecting Portal, Batch SaaS API and Management Platform API. The Speechmatics status page rated it "Critical" and it lasted 15 hours 8 min.
How often does Speechmatics go down?
Speechmatics's status page posted 28 incidents since Oct 21, 2025, 0 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 Speechmatics 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.