Live status & reliability report
Perplexity status, outages & reliability
Perplexity is an AI answer engine and chat assistant that cites web sources, with free, Pro and Enterprise plans.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated
Over the last 90 days Perplexity had 99.83% effective uptime across 8 status page incidents (3 partial or major outages), resolving them in 1h 19m on average.
Is Perplexity down right now?
No, Perplexity is up and running.
- Perplexity's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
90-day uptime
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Key facts about Perplexity's reliability
- Over the past 12 months, Perplexity published 17 incidents on its status page, 11 of them partial or major outages.
- Its longest outage on record in that time was “Connector connectivity issues” on Jun 4, 2026, which lasted 4h 31m.
- The part of Perplexity most often affected was Computer (6 of 17 incidents).
- Perplexity reported 8 incidents in the last 90 days, up from 5 in the 90 days before.
- Incidents most often began on a Thursday (7 of 17, UTC).
- Perplexity's 90-day uptime of 99.83% is above the average for AI chat assistants (99.23%).
- It resolves incidents faster than the typical AI chat assistant: 1h 19m on average, against a median of 3h 52m.
Score breakdown
Incidents per month
- Major outage
- Partial outage
- Degraded
- Informational
Response time
Daily average response time of Perplexity'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).
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Perplexity incident history (last 90 days)
- MaintenanceOct 13, 2026 · ongoing
Scheduled Computer Maintenance
Affected: Computer
- Degraded performanceOct 9, 2026 · resolved in 37m
Elevated API errors and timeouts
Affected: App, Computer, API, Website
- MaintenanceSep 7, 2026 · ongoing
Status page migration to incident.io
Affected: Website, App, Computer
- Partial outageSep 5, 2026 · resolved in 2h 19m
We have identified few connectors that are impacting users.
Affected: Computer
- Major outageSep 3, 2026 · resolved in 40m
Issue with usage based billing
Affected: Computer
- InformationalAug 31, 2026 · resolved in 34m
Affected: Computer
- Degraded performanceAug 14, 2026 · resolved in 57m
Affected: Computer
- Major outageAug 13, 2026 · resolved in 1h 4m
Affected: App
- Degraded performanceAug 11, 2026 · resolved in 6m
- Degraded performanceAug 6, 2026 · resolved in 3h 33m
Affected: Computer
Source: Perplexity status page · last checked
Our independent monitoring
We check these public Perplexity pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.
| Page | Last check | Uptime (30d) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage | Inconclusive | — | — |
| Auth session API | Inconclusive | — | — |
| Hub | Inconclusive | — | — |
How Perplexity compares
Perplexity status FAQ
Is Perplexity down right now?
No, Perplexity is up and running. Perplexity's status page currently reports all systems operational. This page updates automatically when that changes.
How reliable is Perplexity?
Perplexity has a reliability score of 84.0 out of 100, ranking #2 of 7 AI chat assistants. Over the last 90 days it had 99.83% effective uptime.
How often does Perplexity have outages?
Perplexity published 8 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (3 partial or major outages) and 17 in the past 12 months.
How long do Perplexity outages last?
Perplexity resolves incidents in 1h 19m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 4h 31m, on Jun 4, 2026.
Does Perplexity have a status page?
Yes. Perplexity's official status page is status.perplexity.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.