Is Perplexity Down?
Perplexity AI search, Sonar models, and Perplexity API services.
[ STATUS AT A GLANCE ]
System Components
Current status of individual Perplexity services
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About Perplexity
What Perplexity does, where the data on this page comes from, and recent reliability
[ ABOUT PERPLEXITY ]
About Perplexity
Perplexity provides Perplexity search, Sonar models, and Perplexity API. Perplexity status matters when teams rely on search and answer-generation APIs for research, customer support, and other freshness-sensitive use cases.
This page checks Perplexity's official status page for current service health and any active issues. Perplexity does not publish historical incident data publicly, so this page focuses on live status.
[ DATA SOURCES ]
Live status only — no historical data
Perplexity shares current status and any active incidents, but does not publish historical incident data through their public status page.
- Data pulled from Perplexity's official status page (status.perplexity.com)
- Refreshed every 60 seconds
- Covers Perplexity search, Sonar models, and Perplexity API
- Perplexity does not expose historical incident data through their public status page — coverage here is limited to current status and active issues
[ RELIABILITY ]
Recent reliability
- We don't have enough public data from Perplexity to assess recent reliability. This typically means the provider doesn't publish detailed historical status data.
- Historical incident records are not available from Perplexity's public status page. Only currently active incidents are shown when they exist.
- All 2 monitored components are currently operational.
[ COMMON USE CASES ]
How teams use Perplexity
Perplexity status matters when teams rely on search and answer-generation APIs for research, customer support, and other freshness-sensitive use cases.
Incidents & Maintenance
Active incidents, scheduled maintenance, and incident history for Perplexity
Incident history not available
Perplexity does not publish incident logs through their public status API.
Check their official status page →Frequently Asked Questions
Is Perplexity down right now?
Check the status indicator at the top of this page — it pulls directly from Perplexity's official status page. If Perplexity is experiencing any issues, you'll see it reflected here.
What does this Perplexity status page track?
This page tracks Perplexity search, Sonar models, and Perplexity API using data from Perplexity's official status page. Note that Perplexity only exposes current status publicly — historical incident data is not available.
How often is Perplexity status updated here?
We check Perplexity's status page every 60 seconds. How quickly issues show up here depends on how fast Perplexity updates their own official status.
Why monitor Perplexity status?
Perplexity status matters when teams rely on search and answer-generation APIs for research, customer support, and other freshness-sensitive use cases.
What can I do if Perplexity goes down?
The most common approach is to set up automatic failover to an alternative provider. Bifrost is an open-source AI gateway that can route requests away from Perplexity when it's experiencing issues, keeping your application running even when a single provider has problems.