Live status & reliability report
Perplexity API status, outages & reliability
The Perplexity API (Sonar) gives developers access to Perplexity's search-grounded answer models.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated
Over the last 90 days Perplexity API had 99.94% effective uptime across 3 status page incidents (1 partial or major outage), resolving them in 36m on average.
Is Perplexity API down right now?
No, Perplexity API is up and running.
- Perplexity API's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
- All 2 Perplexity API pages we check are responding. Checked .
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90-day uptime
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Key facts about Perplexity API's reliability
- Over the past 12 months, Perplexity API published 12 incidents on its status page, 9 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 API most often affected was App (2 of 12 incidents).
- Perplexity API reported 3 incidents in the last 90 days, down from 5 in the 90 days before.
- Incidents most often began on a Thursday (5 of 12, UTC).
- Perplexity API's 90-day uptime of 99.94% is above the average for LLM API providers (99.34%).
- It resolves incidents faster than the typical LLM API provider: 36m on average, against a median of 2h 22m.
Score breakdown
Incidents per month
- Major outage
- Partial outage
- Degraded
- Informational
Response time
Daily average response time of Perplexity API'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 API incident history (last 90 days)
- Degraded performanceOct 9, 2026 · resolved in 37m
Elevated API errors and timeouts
Affected: App, Computer, API, Website
- Major outageAug 13, 2026 · resolved in 1h 4m
Investigating API issueofficial update ↗
Affected: App
- Degraded performanceAug 11, 2026 · resolved in 6m
Source: Perplexity API status page · last checked · Subscribe via RSS
Our independent monitoring
We check these public Perplexity API pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.
| Page | Last check | Uptime (30d) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat completions endpoint (unauthenticated GET) | Up | 100% | 224 ms |
| API docs | Up | 100% | 822 ms |
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Perplexity API status FAQ
Is Perplexity API down right now?
No, Perplexity API is up and running. Perplexity API's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 2 of the Perplexity API pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.
How reliable is Perplexity API?
Perplexity API has a reliability score of 93.8 out of 100, ranking #1 of 11 LLM API providers. Over the last 90 days it had 99.94% effective uptime.
How often does Perplexity API have outages?
Perplexity API published 3 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (1 partial or major outage) and 12 in the past 12 months.
How long do Perplexity API outages last?
Perplexity API resolves incidents in 36m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 4h 31m, on Jun 4, 2026.
Does Perplexity API have a status page?
Yes. Perplexity API's official status page is status.perplexity.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.