Alpaca outage history and status
Is Alpaca down right now?
No
All Systems Operational Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 16:17 UTC (refreshing…)
Open incidents
99.87%
uptime, 90 days
28
incidents, 90 days
46 min
median time to fix
Oct 21, 2026
last incident
Alpaca components
Live Trading API
- Account API Operational
- Orders API Operational
- Positions API Operational
- Assets API Operational
- Trade Update Streaming Operational
- Fractional Orders Operational
Funding
- JNLC Operational
- Just in Time Operational
- Withdrawable Cash Operational
- Instant Funding Operational
Paper Trading API
- Paper Account API Operational
- Paper Order API Operational
- Paper Positions API Operational
- Paper Assets API Operational
Support
- Support Forum Operational
- Doumentation Operational
Accounts
- Transfers Operational
- Bank Links Operational
- New Account Onboarding Operational
- Turbo Tax Integration Operational
- Buying Power Operational
- Non Tradable Activites Operational
Broker API
- broker.accounts.get Operational
- broker.accounts.account_id.transfers.get Operational
- broker.assets.get Operational
- broker.trading.accounts.account_id.account.get Operational
- broker.trading.accounts.account_id.orders.get Operational
- broker.accounts.account_id.documents.get Operational
- broker.journals.get Operational
Market Data Options REST API
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta1/options/bars Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta1/options/quotes/latest Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta1/options/trades/latest Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta1/options/trades Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta1/options/snapshots Operational
Market Data Crypto REST API
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta3/crypto/us/bars Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta3/crypto/us/latest/bars Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta3/crypto/us/latest/orderbooks Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta3/crypto/us/latest/trades Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta3/crypto/us/latest/quotes Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta3/crypto/us/trades Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta3/us/crypto/quotes Operational
Market Data Stocks REST API
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v2/stocks/auctions Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v2/stocks/bars Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v2/stocks/trades Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v2/stocks/quotes Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v2/stocks/snapshots Operational
- https://data.alpaca.markets/v2/stocks/trades/latest Operational
Market Data Streaming API
- wss://stream.data.alpaca.markets/v2/sip Operational
- wss://stream.data.alpaca.markets/v2/iex Operational
- wss://stream.data.alpaca.markets/v1beta3/crypto/us Operational
- wss://stream.data.alpaca.markets/v1beta1/news Operational
- wss://stream.data.alpaca.markets/v1beta1/otc Operational
- wss://stream.data.alpaca.markets/v1beta1/opra Operational
Broker API (Sandbox)
- broker.accounts.get Operational
- broker.accounts.account_id.transfers.get Operational
- broker.assets.get Operational
- broker.trading.accounts.account_id.account.get Operational
- broker.trading.accounts.account_id.orders.get Operational
- broker.accounts.account_id.documents.get Operational
- Dashboard Operational
Alpaca outage history
| Started (UTC) | Incident | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2026, 04:35 UTC | Issues on Exchange Availability https://data.alpaca.markets/v2/stocks/trades, https://data.alpaca.markets/v2/stocks/quotes, broker.trading.accounts.account_id.orders.get | No impact | 2 h 08 min |
| Oct 19, 2026, 23:43 UTC | Brief API Timeouts Account API, Orders API | Major | <1 min |
| Oct 15, 2026, 17:32 UTC | 3rd Party Outage affecting Market Data wss://stream.data.alpaca.markets/v2/sip, wss://stream.data.alpaca.markets/v2/iex | Critical | 1 h 13 min |
| Oct 10, 2026, 21:38 UTC | Sandbox Latency | Minor | 43 min |
| Oct 9, 2026, 07:16 UTC | Delays in End-of-Day Position Reporting for a Subset of Accounts Reporting - Aggregate Position endpoint | No impact | 2 h 08 min |
| Oct 7, 2026, 16:32 UTC | Brief API Timeouts Account API, Orders API | No impact | <1 min |
| Sep 30, 2026, 17:13 UTC | Order processing delays Orders API | Minor | 49 min |
| Sep 26, 2026, 13:54 UTC | Intermittent Errors on Broker API Account and Position Endpoints Account API, broker.accounts.get, Positions API | Minor | 7 min |
| Sep 23, 2026, 07:30 UTC | Issues on Paper Trading Environment | No impact | <1 min |
| Sep 19, 2026, 19:32 UTC | Investigating — incomplete EOD position snapshots | Major | 1 h 10 min |
| Sep 18, 2026, 06:27 UTC | Intermittent Broker API Timeouts Account API, Orders API, Positions API | Minor | 2 h 41 min |
| Sep 14, 2026, 21:00 UTC | Paper Trading Order Processing Disruption | No impact | — |
| Sep 11, 2026, 16:56 UTC | Intermittent HTTP 500 errors across Multiple API's Orders API, https://data.alpaca.markets/v2/stocks/bars, https://data.alpaca.markets/v2/stocks/trades | Major | 29 min |
| Sep 11, 2026, 08:00 UTC | Some Accounts Balances Update Are Delayed broker.trading.accounts.account_id.account.get | No impact | 2 min |
| Sep 10, 2026, 07:45 UTC | Intermittent Errors Affecting Broker API Requests broker.accounts.get, broker.trading.accounts.account_id.orders.get | No impact | 19 min |
| Sep 9, 2026, 06:56 UTC | Intermittent Errors on Broker API Account and Position Endpoints broker.trading.accounts.account_id.account.get, broker.trading.accounts.account_id.orders.get | No impact | 1 h 06 min |
| Sep 3, 2026, 02:22 UTC | Trading API Funding and Transfer Errors Assets API | Minor | 15 min |
| Aug 31, 2026, 10:54 UTC | Intermittent 5xx Errors Affecting Order Creation and Account Details broker.accounts.get, Orders API | Minor | 3 h 16 min |
| Aug 29, 2026, 06:30 UTC | Brief API latency and timeouts | No impact | <1 min |
| Aug 27, 2026, 09:28 UTC | Temporary order rejections Orders API | No impact | <1 min |
| Aug 20, 2026, 12:34 UTC | New account sign-up errors | Minor | — |
| Aug 20, 2026, 08:00 UTC | Order rejections at pre-market session open | Minor | <1 min |
| Aug 12, 2026, 09:39 UTC | Investigating position update issue after sell orders issue Positions API | Minor | 8 h 36 min |
| Aug 4, 2026, 03:37 UTC | Order Status Disrepancies Orders API, Positions API | No impact | 3 h 10 min |
| Aug 3, 2026, 22:40 UTC | Delays in Trade Confirmation Emails | No impact | 55 min |
50 incidents in our archive since May 27, 2026.
When and where Alpaca fails
By weekday
Most incidents start on Thu.
- Mon6
- Tue8
- Wed8
- Thu10
- Fri9
- Sat7
- Sun2
Most affected, last 12 months
- Orders API14
- Account API7
- broker.trading.accounts.account_id.orders.get7
- Positions API7
- broker.accounts.get6
- broker.trading.accounts.account_id.account.get3
- Portfolio History Endpoint3
- Assets2
When Alpaca went down with others
- Jul 21, 2026, 13:09 UTC 26 services reported incidents within the hour
- May 28, 2026, 13:34 UTC 16 services reported incidents within the hour
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FAQ
- Is Alpaca down right now?
- At our last check Alpaca's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
- How often does Alpaca go down?
- Alpaca reported 28 incidents in the last 90 days (4 major or critical), with 172 minutes of major outage: 99.87% uptime.
- When was the last Alpaca outage?
- The latest reported incident started on Oct 21, 2026, 04:35 UTC: "Issues on Exchange Availability", resolved after 2 h 08 min.
- How long do Alpaca outages last?
- Half of Alpaca's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 46 min.
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