AI API outages on August 21, 2026

UTC day · measured every 5 minutes from 4 regions · method

On August 21, 2026 (UTC) our probes attributed 1 outage(s) to 1 provider(s): OpenRouter API: 1.

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Was the OpenRouter API down on August 21, 2026?

Yes, measured. 1 outage(s) attributed to OpenRouter: requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free failed from up to 3 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 11:20 UTC, each shorter than one 5-minute probe cycle.

UTCWhat failedRegionsDurationFailed probesVerdictError
10:48–10:55requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free4 of 4: Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central)≥7 min4shared with 2 other provider(s) — not attributedThe read operation timed out
11:20–11:20requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free3 of 4: Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), US (Central)<5 min3provider outageThe read operation timed out

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Was the friendli API down on August 21, 2026?

Not attributably. 2 multi-region failure(s) of friendli coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above friendli and is not blamed on it.

UTCWhat failedRegionsDurationFailed probesVerdictError
04:45–05:35host probes4 of 4: Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central)≥50 min27shared with 1 other provider(s) — not attributedtimeout
06:00–06:00host probes3 of 4: Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), US (Central)<5 min3shared with 1 other provider(s) — not attributedtimeout

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Was the yi-01ai API down on August 21, 2026?

Not attributably. 1 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.

UTCWhat failedRegionsDurationFailed probesVerdictError
07:20–07:43host probes2 of 4: Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany)≥23 min3shared with 1 other provider(s) — not attributedtimeout

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48 single-region failure(s) were also recorded that day (yi-01ai 23, google 7, sambanova 5, friendli 3, openrouter 3, cohere 1, deepseek 1, doubao 1, nebius 1, stepfun 1). A failure seen from one region cannot be separated from a problem on that network path, so none of them is called an outage.

How is an outage told apart from a network problem?

Each provider is probed every five minutes from 4 independent regions. A failure is attributed to the provider only when it is seen from two or more regions at once and no other provider fails in the same minutes; a failure shared with other providers has a cause above all of them and is not blamed on anyone. Durations are lower bounds: we see the first and last failed probe, not the real start and end. Status-page entries are the provider’s own words, shown next to the measurement, not instead of it.

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