# AI API outages on September 16, 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 SambaNova API down on September 16, 2026?

Yes, measured. 1 outage(s) attributed to SambaNova: host probes failed from up to 2 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 23:55 UTC, each shorter than one 5-minute probe cycle. SambaNova's status page lists nothing that day.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 23:55-23:55 | host probes | eu-hetzner sa-east | <5 min | 2 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the novita API down on September 16, 2026?

Yes, measured. 1 outage(s) attributed to novita: host probes failed from up to 2 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 17:00 UTC, at least 10 minutes observed in total.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 17:00-17:10 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | >=10 min | 2 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the Claude API (Anthropic) down on September 16, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of Anthropic was seen from two or more regions at once. Anthropic's own status page opened 1 entry that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 16:18 UTC: Issues with Google Play subscriptions (none)

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

## Was the OpenAI API down on September 16, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of OpenAI was seen from two or more regions at once; 1 single-region failure(s) are not called an outage. OpenAI's own status page opened 1 entry that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 18:44 UTC: Elevated errors in ChatGPT Work (minor)

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

## Was the nebius API down on September 16, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of nebius was seen from two or more regions at once. nebius's own status page opened 2 entries that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 10:45 UTC: [us-central1] Object Storage is partially unavailable (major)
- self-reported 16:52 UTC: [eu-west1] Metrics for resources in this region are partially unavailable (major)

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-09-16 · CC BY 4.0