# AI API outages on October 18, 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 doubao API down on October 18, 2026?

Yes, measured. 4 outage(s) attributed to doubao: host probes failed from up to 4 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 07:45 UTC, at least 57 minutes observed in total.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 07:45-07:55 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=10 min | 6 | provider_outage |
| 09:13-09:38 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | >=25 min | 3 | provider_outage |
| 10:55-10:55 | host probes | sa-east us-central | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 14:05-14:26 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east | >=21 min | 4 | provider_outage |
| 15:05-15:30 | host probes | ap-tokyo us-central | >=25 min | 4 | unattributed |
| 20:10-20:30 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east | >=20 min | 3 | unattributed |
| 21:35-21:36 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner us-central | <5 min | 3 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the SambaNova API down on October 18, 2026?

Yes, measured. 1 outage(s) attributed to SambaNova: host probes failed from up to 3 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 13:30 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13:30-13:30 | host probes | eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the nebius API down on October 18, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of nebius was seen from two or more regions at once; 2 single-region failure(s) are not called an outage. nebius's own status page opened 1 entry that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 14:07 UTC: Partial IAM and console unavailability (none)

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

## Was the yi-01ai API down on October 18, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 00:40-01:05 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east | >=25 min | 3 | unattributed |

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-10-18 · CC BY 4.0