Perplexity had 9 outages in the last 2 years totaling 6h 17m of downtime — averaging 0.4 incidents per month.
There were 9 Perplexity outages since September 5, 2025 totaling 6h 17m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
We’re experiencing an internal infrastructure outage that’s degrading the Computer experience. Our team is actively investigating and working on a resolution.
The team has implemented a fix and are continuing to monitor recovery.
We implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the result.
This incident has been resolved.
Type: Incident Duration: 4 hours and 31 minutes Affected Components: Website Jun 5, 01:00:00 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Connectors are recovering and getting back to normal for all users. Jun 4, 21:10:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - We have identified connector issues that are currently impacting users. Jun 5, 01:40:38 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
A small percentage of our users may experience instability while using Perplexity Website and products. We're investigating the incident.
We’ve identified the root cause in the underlying AWS infrastructure. We’re actively working with the AWS team to mitigate the issue and fully restore the service.
This incident has been resolved.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this incident.
This incident has been resolved.
Type: Incident Duration: 52 minutes Affected Components: API Feb 16, 21:35:20 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are currently investigating this incident affecting Sonar API. Feb 16, 21:48:00 GMT+0 - Identified - We have identified the root cause and working on the mitigation. Feb 16, 22:14:44 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Sonar API is recovering. We'll continue monitoring the service and its health. Feb 16, 22:27:00 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Type: Incident Duration: 18 minutes Affected Components: Website Feb 5, 22:18:11 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are investigating elevated error rates on the Perplexity website. Feb 5, 22:36:11 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Type: Incident Duration: 34 minutes Affected Components: Website, API Dec 5, 09:06:41 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are currently investigating this incident. Dec 5, 09:23:16 GMT+0 - Monitoring - The service is recovering and we are monitoring; the outage was caused by an underlying service provider issue. Dec 5, 09:41:11 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Type: Incident Duration: 2 hours Affected Components: Website, API Nov 18, 13:00:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are currently investigating this incident. Nov 18, 13:46:17 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are currently investigating this incident. Nov 18, 14:59:39 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Type: Incident Affected Components: API Sep 5, 17:25:07 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Sep 5, 16:30:00 GMT+0 - Resolved - We experienced an outage for the API that lasted roughly 20 minutes. This incident has been resolved.