Speechmatics incident

Portal and temporary auth key API outage

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Speechmatics experienced a major incident on September 25, 2025 affecting Batch SaaS - EU1 and Batch SaaS - US1 and 1 more component, lasting 1h 30m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 25, 2025, 03:02 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 25, 2025, 04:32 PM UTC
Duration
1h 30m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 25, 2025, 03:02 PM UTC

Affected components

Batch SaaS - EU1Batch SaaS - US1Batch SaaS - AUBatch SaaS - EU2Batch SaaS - US2Portal (portal.speechmatics.com)Realtime SaaS - USRealtime SaaS - EU

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 25, 2025, 03:02 PM UTC

    We’re experiencing a partial outage on portal.speechmatics.com. Our team is currently working to restore the service. We apologize for any inconvenience.

  2. identified Sep 25, 2025, 03:15 PM UTC

    The root cause has been identified and our engineering teams are working on a solution. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

  3. identified Sep 25, 2025, 03:34 PM UTC

    Root cause has been identified as a problem with the backend service supporting creation of new API and temporary keys. A fix is in the process of being rolled out. We will post another update within 15 minutes.

  4. monitoring Sep 25, 2025, 03:54 PM UTC

    We have rolled out a mitigation for creating new API and temporary tokens and the service has recovered. We will continue to monitor as top priority.

  5. monitoring Sep 25, 2025, 04:29 PM UTC

    In the Portal, the Usage and Billing pages will have delayed updates temporarily.

  6. resolved Sep 25, 2025, 04:32 PM UTC

    We have continued to monitor this incident and can confirm it has now been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you are still facing issues with the service, please reach our to our Support team https://support.speechmatics.com.