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Is Perplexity down right now?

Probably not. As of Oct 19, 2026, 00:14 UTC, Perplexity's official status feed reports “All Systems Operational” and no open incidents. Official status pages can lag behind real problems; if you see errors that aren't listed, check the status page directly.

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Open incidents

Resolved in the last 7 days

Perplexity outage history (last 90 days)

Perplexity's official status feed lists 24 incidents between Aug 24, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, 00:14 UTC: 16 rated major or critical, 6 rated minor, 2 with another or no impact rating. Median time from start to resolved, for the 2 with an end time: 36 min. Most recent: “Elevated API errors and timeouts”, started Oct 09, 2026, 22:38 UTC.

Archive of the incidents Perplexity published in its own status feed, kept across our update runs. Complete from Aug 24, 2026; counts reflect what the vendor chose to publish, so they are not comparable across vendors. JSON: /data/incident_history.json.

FAQ

Is Perplexity down right now?

Probably not. As of Oct 19, 2026, 00:14 UTC, Perplexity's official status feed reports “All Systems Operational” and no open incidents. Official status pages can lag behind real problems; if you see errors that aren't listed, check the status page directly.

Where is the official Perplexity status page?

Perplexity's official status page is https://status.perplexity.com. This page reads its machine-readable feed (https://status.perplexity.com/api/v2/summary.json).

How many Perplexity incidents were reported in the last 7 days?

0 incidents appeared in the official feed in the 7 days before Oct 19, 2026, 00:14 UTC; 0 were still open at that check.

How often does Perplexity go down?

Perplexity's official status feed lists 24 incidents between Aug 24, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, 00:14 UTC: 16 rated major or critical, 6 rated minor, 2 with another or no impact rating. Median time from start to resolved, for the 2 with an end time: 36 min. Most recent: “Elevated API errors and timeouts”, started Oct 09, 2026, 22:38 UTC. Counts reflect what the vendor publishes on its own status page.

Where can I find Perplexity's changelog and pricing?

Official links — changelog: https://docs.perplexity.ai/changelog; pricing: https://docs.perplexity.ai/getting-started/pricing.

When was this page last updated?

It was generated from the official feed data fetched at Oct 19, 2026, 00:14 UTC. Times on this page are UTC.

Sources

How this works: we read the vendor's own status feed on each update run (currently about hourly) and show what it says — we don't add our own outage detection. Data for agents: /data/latest.json (key tools.perplexity).

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