# AI API outages on October 26, 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 26, 2026?

Yes, measured. 1 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 18:05 UTC, at least 13 minutes observed in total.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 12:05-12:17 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | sa-east us-central | >=13 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 12:37-13:02 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | >=25 min | 4 | unattributed |
| 13:19-13:22 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | >=4 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 13:39-17:45 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=246 min | 49 | unattributed |
| 18:05-18:17 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | sa-east us-central | >=13 min | 2 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the OpenAI API down on October 26, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of OpenAI was seen from two or more regions at once. OpenAI's own status page opened 1 entry that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 18:19 UTC: Elevated error rates for Ads POST requests (minor)

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-10-26 · CC BY 4.0