# AI API outages on October 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 Gemini API (Google) down on October 6, 2026?

Yes, measured. 2 outage(s) attributed to Google: requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest failed from up to 4 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 02:17 UTC, at least 12 minutes observed in total. At least once Google's own host answered with an HTTP 5xx.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 02:17-02:30 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=12 min | 4 | provider_outage |
| 11:30-11:30 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo sa-east | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 23:30-23:30 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the OpenAI API down on October 6, 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 5 entries that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 00:40 UTC: Elevated errors in API Platform login and administration APIs. (minor)
- self-reported 02:41 UTC: Elevated errors affecting multiple products including ChatGPT (conversations), Image gener (minor)
- self-reported 13:35 UTC: Elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conversations (minor)
- self-reported 15:45 UTC: Errors processing large PDFs in the Responses API (minor)
- self-reported 17:15 UTC: Computer Use Is Experiencing Issues (minor)

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

## Was the Claude API (Anthropic) down on October 6, 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 12:24 UTC: Elevated errors for Claude Opus 5.5 (major)

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

## Was the baichuan API down on October 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13:25-13:25 | host probes | sa-east us-central | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |

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

## Was the doubao API down on October 6, 2026?

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

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 09:10-09:10 | host probes | sa-east us-central | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |

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

## Was the writer API down on October 6, 2026?

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

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 15:10-15:10 | host probes | sa-east us-central | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |

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

## Was the yi-01ai API down on October 6, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 12:55-13:15 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | >=20 min | 4 | unattributed |

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-10-06 · CC BY 4.0