# AI API outages on August 6, 2026 (UTC)

Measured every 5 minutes from 4 regions. An outage is attributed to a provider only when it failed from 2+ regions at once and no other provider failed in the same minutes.

## Was the OpenAI API down on August 6, 2026?

Yes, measured. 4 outage(s) attributed to OpenAI: host probes failed from up to 3 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 13:40 UTC, at least 36 minutes observed in total. At least once OpenAI's own host answered with an HTTP 5xx. OpenAI's status page lists nothing that day.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 01:05-01:20 | host probes | sa-east us-central | >=15 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 02:00-02:30 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner us-central | >=30 min | 6 | unattributed |
| 05:25-05:30 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | >=5 min | 4 | unattributed |
| 06:50-06:50 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 09:20-09:35 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | >=15 min | 3 | unattributed |
| 11:00-11:25 | host probes | eu-hetzner us-central | >=25 min | 4 | unattributed |
| 13:40-13:40 | host probes | eu-hetzner sa-east | <5 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 14:15-14:30 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east | >=15 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 15:35-16:10 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=35 min | 8 | unattributed |
| 17:15-17:35 | host probes | ap-tokyo us-central | >=20 min | 4 | unattributed |
| 18:10-18:20 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east | >=10 min | 3 | unattributed |
| 19:05-19:20 | host probes | sa-east us-central | >=15 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 19:40-20:30 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=50 min | 9 | unattributed |
| 20:50-21:10 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner us-central | >=20 min | 4 | provider_outage |
| 22:05-22:20 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east | >=15 min | 4 | provider_outage |
| 22:40-22:40 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east | <5 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 23:45-00:00 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east | >=15 min | 3 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/openai

## Was the Gemini API (Google) down on August 6, 2026?

Not attributably. 1 multi-region failure(s) of Google coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above Google and is not blamed on it.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13:30-13:30 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/google

## Was the baichuan API down on August 6, 2026?

Not attributably. 1 multi-region failure(s) of baichuan coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above baichuan and is not blamed on it.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 06:25-06:25 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/baichuan

## Was the stepfun API down on August 6, 2026?

Not attributably. 1 multi-region failure(s) of stepfun coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above stepfun and is not blamed on it.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 06:45-06:55 | host probes | sa-east us-central | >=10 min | 2 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/stepfun

## Was the yi-01ai API down on August 6, 2026?

Not attributably. 3 multi-region failure(s) of yi-01ai coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above yi-01ai and is not blamed on it.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 06:25-06:25 | host probes | sa-east us-central | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 10:25-11:30 | host probes | ap-tokyo us-central | >=65 min | 8 | unattributed |
| 13:55-14:25 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner us-central | >=30 min | 5 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/yi-01ai

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-08-06 · CC BY 4.0