# AI API outages on August 21, 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 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.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10:48-10:55 | requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=7 min | 4 | unattributed |
| 11:20-11:20 | requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | provider_outage |

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

## 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.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 04:45-05:35 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=50 min | 27 | unattributed |
| 06:00-06:00 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | unattributed |

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

## 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.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 07:20-07:43 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | >=23 min | 3 | unattributed |

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-08-21 · CC BY 4.0