Is Perplexity Down?
Live Perplexity status. Auto-refreshes every 2 minutes.
Perplexity is Operational
Perplexity is up and running normally. All systems are operational.
Official status page: status.perplexity.com
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Recent Perplexity AI incidents
What to do when Perplexity is down
Switch to another answer engine or assistant
If the Perplexity answer engine is unavailable, a general-purpose assistant can usually cover research and Q and A in the meantime. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all handle conversational answers, though their live-web behavior differs from Perplexity's cited search. Pick whichever you already have access to and confirm it is healthy before relying on it.
Have a Sonar API fallback ready
If you build on the Sonar API, an outage there should not take your app down with it. Route to a comparable API as a backup and add retry-with-backoff so transient failures recover on their own. Since Perplexity can route to upstream frontier models, checking those providers' status can also tell you whether the root cause is Perplexity or a backend it depends on.
Get notified when status changes
Instead of refreshing the status page, let TensorFeed tell you when Perplexity recovers or when a new incident starts. Set an alert and you will know the moment the indicator flips, across Perplexity and the other providers you depend on.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Perplexity down right now?
The live indicator near the top of this page reflects the current state. A green operational badge means the Perplexity answer engine and Sonar API are responding normally. An amber degraded badge usually means answers are slow or some searches are failing intermittently, and a red badge means a wider outage. We read the official status.perplexity.com feed, so the badge here mirrors what Perplexity itself reports.
How do I check Perplexity status?
This page pulls the official Perplexity status feed from status.perplexity.com and refreshes automatically, so it is the fastest single place to read it. You can also visit status.perplexity.com directly for the full component breakdown, or watch user reports on social platforms when you suspect a wider problem. If only your account or one query is failing while the status page is green, it is more likely a local or account-specific issue than a Perplexity outage.
What should I do when Perplexity is down?
First confirm whether it is the web answer engine, the mobile app, or the Sonar API that is affected, since they can fail independently. For everyday research and answers, a general assistant like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini can fill the gap, though they do not all search the live web the same way. If you are building on the Sonar API, queue or retry requests with backoff and have a fallback model path ready so your app degrades gracefully rather than erroring out.
How often does Perplexity go down?
Perplexity is generally reliable, and most disruptions are short-lived periods of slowness or partial degradation rather than full outages. Like any service that depends on live web search and multiple upstream model providers, it can have brief incidents when search infrastructure, a model backend, or a traffic spike causes hiccups. Treat a single failed query as noise; only repeated failures across queries or a red status badge point to a real incident.
Which models and services does Perplexity run?
Perplexity runs its own Sonar family of search-grounded models and also routes to frontier models from other providers (such as GPT, Claude, and Gemini class models) depending on your tier and the mode you pick. Because of this, a Perplexity slowdown can sometimes trace back to an upstream provider rather than Perplexity itself, so it is worth checking the relevant model provider's status too. The Sonar API is the developer product; the consumer answer engine, Pro tier, and any browser or app surfaces are separate components that can be affected on their own.
Where can I see Perplexity incident history?
The official status.perplexity.com page keeps a running incident log with timestamps, affected components, and post-incident updates, which is the authoritative record. This TensorFeed page reflects the current state from that same feed. For broader context across the whole AI ecosystem, our /status dashboard tracks Perplexity alongside other major providers so you can see whether an issue is isolated or part of a wider event.