AI API outages in July 2026: who went down, and who admitted it
· covers July 2026
In July 2026 we attributed 19 outage(s) to a provider, could not attribute 36 more, and recorded 336 isolated single-region failures.
Which AI APIs went down, and did they say so?
| Started (UTC) | Provider | Regions hit | Which | Duration | Failed probes | Did they say so? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 23:25 | friendli | 4 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥14 min | 4 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 22:47 | friendli | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), US (Central) | ≥3 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 22:09 | friendli | 3 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥13 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 19:19 | friendli | 3 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), US (Central) | ≥23 min | 5 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 10:34 | friendli | 2 of 4 | Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo) | ≥5 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-30 18:44 | sarvam | 2 of 4 | Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo) | <5 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-30 06:06 | yi-01ai | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), US (Central) | ≥3 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-29 18:05 | yi-01ai | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | <5 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-29 15:25 | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo) | ≥1 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-29 06:35 | yi-01ai | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), US (Central) | ≥32 min | 5 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-29 01:45 | 2 of 4 | Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo) | ≥7 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-28 14:25 | 3 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥5 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-28 03:26 | cerebras | 2 of 4 | Europe (Germany), US (Central) | ≥14 min | 2 | No entry in their status feed |
| 2026-07-27 15:35 | nscale | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo) | <5 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-27 07:25 | featherless | 4 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥23 min | 16 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-27 02:51 | sambanova | 2 of 4 | Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo) | ≥11 min | 3 | No entry in their status feed |
| 2026-07-26 18:13 | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), US (Central) | <5 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-26 08:22 | doubao | 2 of 4 | Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo) | ≥13 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-25 09:20 | openai | 3 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo) | ≥14 min | 4 | Yes — “Elevated error rates”, 3 min before us |
| 2026-07-31 23:59 | friendli | 4 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥25 min | 6 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 21:27 | friendli | 3 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥22 min | 5 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 20:14 | friendli | 3 of 4 | Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥6 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 17:19 | friendli | 4 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥20 min | 6 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 15:52 | friendli | 4 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥13 min | 5 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 15:12 | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo) | ≥7 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-31 15:09 | friendli | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany) | ≥20 min | 4 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 14:47 | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo) | ≥7 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-31 13:40 | friendli | 3 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥40 min | 6 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 11:29 | friendli | 3 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo) | ≥38 min | 6 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-31 11:04 | friendli | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥6 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-30 15:50 | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), US (Central) | ≥5 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-30 15:25 | writer | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | <5 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-29 17:35 | yi-01ai | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), US (Central) | ≥12 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-29 17:30 | doubao | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), US (Central) | ≥2 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-29 16:55 | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥36 min | 4 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-29 15:00 | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo) | ≥1 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-29 14:00 | 4 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥37 min | 7 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-29 12:41 | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany) | ≥15 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-29 03:20 | stepfun | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥15 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-28 18:15 | cerebras | 4 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥25 min | 6 | No entry in their status feed |
| 2026-07-28 12:31 | 3 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), US (Central) | ≥25 min | 4 | No machine-readable status page | |
| 2026-07-27 15:06 | deepinfra | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo) | ≥5 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-27 13:50 | stepfun | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥16 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-27 05:57 | yi-01ai | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥10 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-27 05:40 | sensenova | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥2 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-27 04:03 | sambanova | 2 of 4 | Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo) | ≥41 min | 9 | No entry in their status feed |
| 2026-07-26 16:46 | yi-01ai | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), US (Central) | ≥5 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-26 16:46 | stepfun | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥5 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-26 15:26 | yi-01ai | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), US (Central) | ≥5 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-26 13:25 | doubao | 2 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo) | ≥9 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-26 09:01 | iflytek | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥16 min | 3 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-25 16:15 | stepfun | 2 of 4 | South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | <5 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-25 16:11 | sensenova | 2 of 4 | Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo) | ≥4 min | 2 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-24 11:00 | novita | 4 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥6 min | 9 | No machine-readable status page |
| 2026-07-24 11:00 | together | 4 of 4 | Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥6 min | 8 | No machine-readable status page |
How is this decided?
An outage is attributed to a provider only when it failed from two or more regions at once and no other provider was failing in the same minutes. A failure shared with other providers has a cause above all of them. Full method: the incident log.
Other measurements from the same period
- Which AI API SDKs developers installed in July 2026
- Who changed AI API prices in July 2026
- AI models retired or deprecated in July 2026
This post is a snapshot. The live figures behind it: /incidents · all posts