# AI API outages on September 23, 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 Gemini API (Google) down on September 23, 2026?

Yes, measured. 2 outage(s) attributed to Google: requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest failed from up to 2 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 06:14 UTC, at least 19 minutes observed in total.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 06:14-06:18 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner us-central | >=4 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 12:00-12:15 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | >=15 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 13:00-13:15 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner sa-east | >=15 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 13:35-17:35 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=240 min | 51 | unattributed |
| 17:55-17:55 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | unattributed |
| 18:35-18:35 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | unattributed |

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

## Was the aleph-alpha API down on September 23, 2026?

Yes, measured. 1 outage(s) attributed to aleph-alpha: host probes failed from up to 3 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 19:30 UTC, each shorter than one 5-minute probe cycle.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 19:30-19:30 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | provider_outage |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/aleph-alpha

## Was the OpenAI API down on September 23, 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 2 entries that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 09:13 UTC: Elevated Error Rates for ChatGPT across Plus and Pro plans. (minor)
- self-reported 23:25 UTC: Mobile users unable to see Work Mode and the Model Picker (minor)

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

## Was the SambaNova API down on September 23, 2026?

Not attributably. 1 multi-region failure(s) of SambaNova coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above SambaNova and is not blamed on it. SambaNova's status page lists nothing that day.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 12:50-12:50 | host probes | sa-east us-central | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |

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

## Was the nebius API down on September 23, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of nebius was seen from two or more regions at once. nebius's own status page opened 1 entry that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 05:20 UTC: Network issues in eu-west2 (major)

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

## Was the yi-01ai API down on September 23, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 15:00-15:05 | host probes | ap-tokyo us-central | >=5 min | 2 | unattributed |

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-09-23 · CC BY 4.0