Live status & reliability report

Bandwidth status, outages & reliability

#9 of 11 SMS & voice APIsOperational

Bandwidth is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based communications platform and CLEC offering voice, messaging, 911 and phone number APIs over its own US network.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days Bandwidth had 97.18% effective uptime across 68 status page incidents (14 partial or major outages), resolving them in 5h 38m on average.

33.6/100Reliability scoreVisit Bandwidth ↗

Is Bandwidth down right now?

No, Bandwidth is up and running.

  • Bandwidth's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 3 Bandwidth pages we check are responding. Checked .

Official Bandwidth status page ↗

Uptime (90d)97.18%2d 12h weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)6811.5 per 30 days
Major / partial outages14
Avg time to resolve5h 38m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026: 93.90% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 5, 2026: 95.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 6, 2026: no incidentsAug 7, 2026: 94.75% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 8, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026: no incidentsAug 11, 2026: 87.27% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 12, 2026: 97.18% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 13, 2026: no incidentsAug 14, 2026: 96.25% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 15, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026: no incidentsAug 17, 2026: 86.31% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 18, 2026: 96.13% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 19, 2026: no incidentsAug 20, 2026: 83.65% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 21, 2026: 99.25% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 22, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026: no incidentsAug 24, 2026: 97.38% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 25, 2026: 91.66% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 26, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026: no incidentsSep 1, 2026: 93.60% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Sep 2, 2026: 94.30% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 3, 2026: 88.81% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 4, 2026 – Sep 7, 2026: no incidentsSep 8, 2026: 81.38% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Sep 9, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026: no incidentsSep 11, 2026: 99.48% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 12, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026: no incidentsSep 14, 2026: 95.27% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 15, 2026: 96.33% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 16, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026: no incidentsSep 23, 2026: 91.80% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 1, 2026: no incidentsOct 2, 2026: 78.36% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 3, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026: no incidentsOct 6, 2026: 87.25% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 7, 2026: 97.08% uptime, 5 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 8, 2026: 98.07% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026: no incidentsOct 19, 2026: 95.62% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 20, 2026: 91.80% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 21, 2026: 69.98% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 22, 2026: 76.36% uptime, 4 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 23, 2026: 98.27% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 24, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026: no incidentsOct 26, 2026: 98.34% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 27, 2026 – Oct 28, 2026: no incidentsOct 29, 2026: 94.69% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 30, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago97.182% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about Bandwidth's reliability

  • Since Jun 1, 2026, the earliest date its published history covers, Bandwidth published 113 incidents on its status page, 27 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Japan outbound calling incident” on Oct 20, 2026, which lasted 15h 12m.
  • The part of Bandwidth most often affected was Number Porting (5 of 113 incidents).
  • Incidents most often began on a Tuesday (29 of 113, UTC).
  • Bandwidth's 90-day uptime of 97.18% is below the average for SMS & voice APIs (98.46%).
  • It resolves incidents faster than the typical SMS & voice API: 5h 38m on average, against a median of 5h 55m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
0
97.182% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
6
11.50 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
63
5h 38m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

07142128DecJan ’26FebMarAprMay2 major outage incidents3 partial outage incidents10 degraded performance incidents6 informational incidents21Jun7 partial outage incidents12 degraded performance incidents3 informational incidents22Jul1 major outage incident3 partial outage incidents11 degraded performance incidents9 informational incidents24Aug2 major outage incidents1 partial outage incident8 degraded performance incidents8 informational incidents19Sep8 partial outage incidents10 degraded performance incidents9 informational incidents27OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of Bandwidth's public pages, measured by our probes.

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Bandwidth incident history (last 90 days)

Source: Bandwidth status page · last checked

Our independent monitoring

We check these public Bandwidth pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
HomepageUp 100%1043 ms
Bandwidth App loginUp 100%145 ms
Developer docsUp 100%134 ms

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Bandwidth status FAQ

Is Bandwidth down right now?

No, Bandwidth is up and running. Bandwidth's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the Bandwidth pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is Bandwidth?

Bandwidth has a reliability score of 33.6 out of 100, ranking #9 of 11 SMS & voice APIs. Over the last 90 days it had 97.18% effective uptime.

How often does Bandwidth have outages?

Bandwidth published 68 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (14 partial or major outages) and 113 in the past 12 months.

How long do Bandwidth outages last?

Bandwidth resolves incidents in 5h 38m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 15h 12m, on Oct 20, 2026.

Does Bandwidth have a status page?

Yes. Bandwidth's official status page is status.bandwidth.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.