When was Perplexity's last outage?

The most recent outage began 2026-09-05 05:57 UTC and lasted 1h 21m (severity: degraded).

What should I do if Perplexity is down for me?

Try a plain search without Pro or focus modes; model-backed modes can fail while basic search works. Sign out and back in — an expired session breaks answers while the page still renders. Perplexity blocks automated traffic aggressively, so a VPN or shared IP can get you challenged rather than served. Check whether only file uploads or only search is affected; they're separate subsystems.

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Is Perplexity down right now?

No, it’s up.

Perplexity appears to be up and running normally.

checked 2026-09-18 21:29 UTC

responded in 25ms

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We've just started monitoring Perplexity. Live status, response times, and outage history will build up here over the coming days.

Perplexity is an AI answer engine that searches the live web and returns cited summaries rather than a list of links. It depends on both its own models and third-party search and LLM providers, so outages often appear as answers that start generating and then stall, missing citations, or the search step failing while the interface loads normally.

Is Perplexity down for everyone or just you?

Our automated checks are reaching Perplexity normally right now, and it answered our last one in 25ms. 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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Perplexity response time (last 24h)

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Perplexity incident history (last 90 days)

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Date	What happened	Duration	Severity
2026-09-05 05:57 UTC	Measured by our checks	1h 21m	Degraded
2026-09-03 20:39 UTC	Measured by our checks	40m	Degraded
2026-09-01 00:05 UTC	Measured by our checks	10m	Degraded
2026-08-14 11:56 UTC	Measured by our checks	10m	Degraded
2026-08-13 01:29 UTC	Measured by our checks	30m	Degraded

Perplexity uptime

7 days
30 days: 100.00%
90 days

Measured since 2026-08-12. Windows reaching further back are averaged over the 38 days we watched, not the full period. Counts our own checks. Days Perplexity reported an incident are coloured in the timeline above but do not change this figure.

What to do if Perplexity is down for just you

Try a plain search without Pro or focus modes; model-backed modes can fail while basic search works.
Sign out and back in — an expired session breaks answers while the page still renders.
Perplexity blocks automated traffic aggressively, so a VPN or shared IP can get you challenged rather than served.
Check whether only file uploads or only search is affected; they're separate subsystems.

Frequently asked questions

Perplexity appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-09-18 21:29 UTC.

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