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Is American Express down right now?

No, it’s up.

American Express appears to be up and running normally.

checked responded in 33msHTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, American Express has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~45 ms. No outages have been recorded in the last 90 days.

American Express issues cards and runs its own payment network, so it is both the issuer and the rails. Card authorisation runs on infrastructure separate from this site and usually survives a website outage.

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Is American Express down for everyone or just you?

Our automated checks are reaching American Express normally right now, and it answered our last one in 33ms. That makes any trouble you are hitting more likely to be local to your connection, account or network than a full outage, which usually means you can fix it from your end.

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American Express response time (last 24h)

Last 24hpeak 544 ms

American Express incident history (last 90 days)

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No incidents in the last 90 days, from our checks or American Express’s own status page.

American Express uptime

100.00%
7 days
100.00%
30 days
100.00%
90 days

Measured since 2026-08-21. Windows reaching further back are averaged over the 19 days we watched, not the full period. Counts our own checks. Days American Express reported an incident are coloured in the timeline above but do not change this figure.

What to do if American Express is down for just you

  • Check the card and the app separately. Card payments usually run on rails that stay up while the app itself is unreachable, and the reverse also happens.
  • Avoid retrying a transfer that appeared to fail. Duplicate submissions during an incident are the most common way one payment becomes two.
  • Try the website rather than the app. Mobile clients are updated more often and a broken release affects only the app.
  • Wait before assuming a missing deposit is lost. Direct deposit and transfer settlement run on batch schedules that an outage delays rather than cancels.

Frequently asked questions

American Express appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-09-08 05:32 UTC.

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