Outage report · Partial outage
Stripe outage on May 16, 2026
Elevated MobilePay errors
SeverityPartial outage
StartedMay 16, 2026, 16:01UTC
ResolvedMay 16, 2026, 18:53UTC
Duration2h 52m
What happened
Stripe reported a partial outage starting May 16, 2026, 16:01 UTC, affecting Acquirers and payment methods. It was marked resolved at May 16, 2026, 18:53 UTC.
- The incident lasted 2h 52m from first report to resolution.
- Stripe had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 3 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Stripe
Between 14:18–17:20 UTC May 16th, we saw elevated error rates and response times with MobilePay requests. This is now resolved.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of Stripe started after this incident, so this report is based on Stripe's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Stripe's overall reliability
89.7/100
Stripe has a reliability score of 89.7/100, with 99.99% effective uptime and 28 incidents over the last 90 days.
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