Live status & reliability report

Bird status, outages & reliability

#6 of 11 SMS & voice APIsOperational

Bird, formerly MessageBird, is an Amsterdam-based platform offering SMS, WhatsApp, voice and email APIs alongside marketing and CRM tools.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days Bird had 99.47% effective uptime across 8 status page incidents, resolving them in 12h 38m on average.

61.7/100Reliability scoreVisit Bird ↗

Is Bird down right now?

No, Bird is up and running.

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

Official Bird status page ↗

Uptime (90d)99.47%11h 22m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)81.2 per 30 days
Major / partial outages0
Avg time to resolve12h 38m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026: no incidentsSep 11, 2026: 92.27% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 12, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 13, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 14, 2026: 92.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 15, 2026 – Sep 16, 2026: no incidentsSep 17, 2026: 99.14% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026: no incidentsSep 26, 2026: 99.80% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 27, 2026 – Oct 3, 2026: no incidentsOct 4, 2026: 99.51% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 5, 2026: 99.44% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 6, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026: no incidentsOct 23, 2026: 99.70% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 24, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.473% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about Bird's reliability

  • Over the past 12 months, Bird published 18 incidents on its status page, 1 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Intermittent issues installing WhatsApp channels” on Nov 24, 2025, which lasted 1d 23h.
  • The part of Bird most often affected was Channels - US (West) (7 of 18 incidents).
  • Bird reported 8 incidents in the last 90 days, up from 3 in the 90 days before.
  • Incidents most often began on a Friday (5 of 18, UTC).
  • Bird's 90-day uptime of 99.47% is above the average for SMS & voice APIs (98.46%).
  • It resolves incidents more slowly than the typical SMS & voice API: 12h 38m on average, against a median of 5h 55m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
49
99.474% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
75
1.17 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
35
12h 38m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

02468Dec1 degraded performance incident1 informational incident2Jan ’26FebMarApr1 degraded performance incident1May2 degraded performance incidents1 informational incident3JunJulAug3 degraded performance incidents2 informational incidents5Sep3 degraded performance incidents3OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of Bird'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.

Bird incident history (last 90 days)

Source: Bird status page · last checked · Subscribe via RSS

Our independent monitoring

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

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
HomepageUp 100%755 ms
App loginUp 100%448 ms
API host (unauthenticated)Up 100%124 ms

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Bird status FAQ

Is Bird down right now?

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

How reliable is Bird?

Bird has a reliability score of 61.7 out of 100, ranking #6 of 11 SMS & voice APIs. Over the last 90 days it had 99.47% effective uptime.

How often does Bird have outages?

Bird published 8 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (0 partial or major outages) and 18 in the past 12 months.

How long do Bird outages last?

Bird resolves incidents in 12h 38m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 1d 23h, on Nov 24, 2025.

Does Bird have a status page?

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