Is Perplexity down?
Perplexity status · AI & APIs · checked (0s ago)
No — Perplexity is not down. All Perplexity systems are reported operational.
According to Perplexity's official status page, Perplexity was reporting “All Systems Operational” when isuptime last checked at . Over the last 30 days, Perplexity's feed reported no outage in 100.00% of our checks.
Is Perplexity down for you right now?
Everything above is read from Perplexity's own status feed. This is what other visitors are saying in the last 24 hours — useful when the feed is green and you are still stuck, and never used to change the status above.
Nobody has reported Perplexity in the last 24 hours. Yours would be the first.
Reports are anonymous counts and are kept for 24 hours, then deleted. No account, no message, nothing stored about who reported. One report per service per hour, changeable until the hour is out.
What Perplexity is
Perplexity is an answer engine: it searches the web and returns a written answer with citations, through the web app, the mobile apps and the Sonar API. It depends on both its own models and live web retrieval, so it has more moving parts than a plain chat product.
What Perplexity's status feed covers
Perplexity publishes through Instatus rather than Statuspage, and its feed reports a single overall state for the whole page — up, has issues, or under maintenance. There is no component breakdown, which means isuptime can tell you Perplexity is reporting a problem but not which part. For anything more specific you have to open their status page and read the incident.
isuptime reads this feed on a schedule and reports what it says — how that works, in detail.
Perplexity uptime, last 30 days
One bar per day. Each shows the share of that day's checks where Perplexity's own status feed reported no outage — degraded counts as no-outage. Days with no bar are days isuptime recorded no checks, not days Perplexity was down.
- No outage reported (99%+)
- 95–99%
- 80–95%
- Under 80%
- No data
Other services reporting problems right now
9 other services isuptime tracks were also reporting a problem as of the same check, 0s ago. They are checked on one schedule, so the timing is comparable — but overlapping in time does not mean they share a cause.
CloudflarePartial System Outage- Razorpay1 of 7 services down: Payments API
- ElasticPartial System Outage
- PlayStation NetworkPlayStation Store affected in Russia
- SalesforceDegraded Performance: 1 active incident
- ScalewayPartially Degraded Service
- SnowflakePartially Degraded Service
- Temporal CloudPartially Degraded Service
Perplexity response time trend
Each point is one check of Perplexity's status endpoint.
Perplexity outage history
Every incident Perplexity has published in the last 12 months.
Perplexity has not published a single incident in the last 12 months. That is a statement about Perplexity's posting habits as much as its reliability — a status page only records what its owner decides to record.
Perplexity status — frequently asked
- Is Perplexity down right now?
- No — Perplexity is not down. All Perplexity systems are reported operational. Checked (0s ago).
- What is Perplexity's status right now?
- Perplexity is reporting “All Systems Operational” on its official status page — Operational — as of . That status feed answered our last check in 817 ms. isuptime reads this from Perplexity's own published feed and does not test Perplexity independently.
- What is Perplexity's uptime?
- isuptime does not measure Perplexity's uptime directly — it reads Perplexity's own published status feed. Over the last 30 days, Perplexity's own status feed reported no outage in 100.00% of isuptime's checks. Periods the provider called degraded count as no-outage, and this is isuptime's own measurement, not a contractual SLA.
- Is it just me, or is Perplexity down for everyone?
- Perplexity reports all systems operational, so the problem is likely local to your network, browser or account. Try a different network or device.
Perplexity says operational but it is not working for me
Perplexity's answers depend on live retrieval, so an answer that arrives slowly or without good sources may reflect the sites it is trying to read rather than Perplexity itself. If Pro searches fail while basic ones work, that is usually a model or quota issue on your account. API users should check whether the failure is a 429 against their own rate limit before assuming an outage.
Alternatives to Perplexity
Perplexity is reporting no problems right now. If it stops, these cover the same job — each shows its own live status.
If Perplexity goes down
OpenAIOperationalWeb search built into ChatGPT covers most of the same questions- ClaudeOperationalWeb search built into Claude covers most of the same questions
Status shown for each is read from that provider's own feed, on the same schedule as this page.
