OpenRouter Outage History

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OpenRouter had 7 outages in the last 2 years totaling 7h 13m of downtime — averaging 0.3 incidents per month.

There were 7 OpenRouter outages since April 14, 2026 totaling 7h 13m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.openrouter.ai

Major September 4, 2026

Degraded video generation and batch jobs APIs

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 04, 2026, 06:27 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 04, 2026, 09:12 PM UTC
Duration
2h 44m
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Sep 04, 2026, 06:27 PM UTC

    We are investigating degraded availability for our video generation and batch jobs APIs.

  2. monitoring Sep 04, 2026, 07:45 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Sep 04, 2026, 09:12 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major August 28, 2026

Web application degraded

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 28, 2026, 07:50 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 28, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC
Duration
2h 42m
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Aug 28, 2026, 07:50 PM UTC

    We are investigating an issue that is causing certain parts of the web application to be unavailable. We will update when we have more information. Inference is unaffected.

  2. monitoring Aug 28, 2026, 09:47 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Aug 28, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major August 28, 2026

Elevated 429s on Anthropic and OpenAI

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 28, 2026, 02:15 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 28, 2026, 02:15 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Chat (/api/v1/chat/completions)
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Aug 28, 2026, 02:15 AM UTC

    Between 1:20 and 1:24 UTC, Anthropic and OpenAI models responded with 429s at an elevated rate.

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Major July 23, 2026

Erroneous outage status

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 23, 2026, 09:17 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 23, 2026, 09:17 PM UTC
Duration
Affected: Chat (/api/v1/chat/completions)
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jul 23, 2026, 09:17 PM UTC

    We briefly reported a major service outage on our Chat (/api/v1/chat/completions) and other inference endpoints. This was in error. We apologize for the notification!

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Major April 14, 2026

[Automated] Generation (/api/v1/generation) was inaccessible

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 14, 2026, 05:02 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 14, 2026, 06:07 PM UTC
Duration
1h 4m
Affected: Data API (Generation (/api/v1/generation))
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 14, 2026, 05:02 PM UTC

    Generation (/api/v1/generation) cannot be reached by our automated monitoring.

  2. resolved Apr 14, 2026, 06:07 PM UTC

    Generation (/api/v1/generation) is operational again.

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