How often does AssemblyAI go down?

AssemblyAI reported 14 incidents in the last 90 days (4 major or critical), with 186 minutes of major outage: 99.86% uptime.

When was the last AssemblyAI outage?

The latest reported incident started on Oct 6, 2026, 15:44 UTC: "Increased Processing Times and Errors on EU Endpoint for Universal-3 Pro Async model", resolved after 19 min.

How long do AssemblyAI outages last?

Half of AssemblyAI's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 23 min.

AssemblyAI outage history and status

Q: Is AssemblyAI down right now?

At our last check AssemblyAI's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.

Is AssemblyAI down right now?

All Systems Operational Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 16:17 UTC (refreshing…)

99.86%

uptime, 90 days

incidents, 90 days

23 min

median time to fix

Oct 6, 2026

last incident

AssemblyAI components

APIs

Asynchronous API Operational
Streaming API Operational
LLM Gateway Operational

AWS Cloud

Transcription Queue Operational
Container Registry Operational
Compute Instances Operational
Container Control Plane Operational
Load Balancers Operational
Database Operational
Usage Statistics Database Operational
Object Storage Operational
Usage Statistics Bus Operational

Web

Website Operational
Playground Operational
Dashboard Operational

Billing Operational

AssemblyAI outage history

AssemblyAI incidents per month, last 12 months. Red: months with a major or critical outage. Shaded: before our complete history.

Started (UTC)	Incident	Impact	Duration
Oct 6, 2026, 15:44 UTC	Increased Processing Times and Errors on EU Endpoint for Universal-3 Pro Async model Asynchronous API	Minor	19 min
Oct 6, 2026, 14:00 UTC	Increased Processing Times and Errors on US Endpoint for Universal-3.5 Pro Async model Asynchronous API	Major	25 min
Oct 6, 2026, 10:30 UTC	Rejected Sessions on US Endpoint for Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime Model	Minor	<1 min
Oct 5, 2026, 10:21 UTC	Increased processing times and errors for Universal-3.5 Pro on the EU async endpoint Asynchronous API	Major	1 h 18 min
Sep 28, 2026, 17:27 UTC	Increased turnaround times for Async Universal-3 model Asynchronous API	Minor	31 min
Sep 16, 2026, 20:22 UTC	Outage on US Async Endpoint Asynchronous API	Critical	1 h 15 min
Sep 14, 2026, 01:27 UTC	Elevated turnaround times for async transcription	No impact	—
Aug 25, 2026, 14:55 UTC	Increased latency for Universal 3.5 Pro Realtime model Streaming API	Minor	6 min
Aug 20, 2026, 14:21 UTC	Async Transcription Service Issues Asynchronous API	Minor	49 min
Aug 19, 2026, 13:17 UTC	EU endpoint session failures on Universal 3.5 Pro Realtime Streaming API	Major	7 min
Aug 18, 2026, 19:34 UTC	Elevated processing times for Universal-3 Pro and Universal-3.5 Pro async transcription Asynchronous API	Minor	38 min
Aug 14, 2026, 14:49 UTC	Delayed Webhook Delivery on Async EU Endpoint Asynchronous API	Minor	20 min
Aug 3, 2026, 16:08 UTC	503 Error when using temp tokens with Realtime API Streaming API	Minor	1 h 48 min
Aug 1, 2026, 16:57 UTC	Degraded Universal-3.5 Pro streaming in us-east	No impact	—
Jul 9, 2026, 13:53 UTC	Increased processing times for US async transcription Asynchronous API	Minor	19 min
Jul 7, 2026, 15:00 UTC	Degraded streaming session creation for Universal Streaming English in us-west	No impact	<1 min
Jun 25, 2026, 15:37 UTC	Timeout on transcriptions using speaker labels Asynchronous API	Major	1 h 11 min
Jun 24, 2026, 09:13 UTC	Pre-recorded Universal-3-pro and Universal-3-5-pro degradation in the EU Asynchronous API	Critical	1 h 26 min
May 27, 2026, 21:00 UTC	Degraded New Account Signup and Account Provisioning Dashboard	Minor	1 h 14 min
May 19, 2026, 11:08 UTC	Increased processing times and errors for Async EU endpoint Asynchronous API	Minor	4 h 21 min
May 7, 2026, 13:56 UTC	Billing Balance & Notification Delays Billing	Minor	3 h 08 min
Apr 16, 2026, 18:37 UTC	Increased processing times and errors for Universal-2 Asynchronous API	Minor	47 min
Apr 9, 2026, 21:33 UTC	Degraded Async Transcription Performance Asynchronous API, Transcription Queue	Major	15 min
Apr 6, 2026, 21:51 UTC	Pre-recorded STT requests that include Content Moderation failing	No impact	<1 min
Mar 30, 2026, 18:41 UTC	Increase in error rates for Claude Sonnet 4.6 LLM Gateway	Minor	5 h 14 min

50 incidents in our archive since July 14, 2025.

When and where AssemblyAI fails

By weekday

Most incidents start on Mon.

Mon14
Tue12
Wed8
Thu9
Fri4
Sat3
Sun0

Most affected, last 12 months

Asynchronous API21
LLM Gateway6
Streaming API6
Billing3
Dashboard3
Playground2
Website2
Transcription Queue1

When AssemblyAI went down with others

Oct 6, 2026, 14:44 UTC 22 services reported incidents within the hour
Oct 6, 2026, 12:14 UTC 22 services reported incidents within the hour
Aug 20, 2026, 13:36 UTC 20 services reported incidents within the hour
Aug 14, 2026, 14:31 UTC 14 services reported incidents within the hour
Nov 18, 2025, 10:52 UTC 172 services reported incidents within the hour

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FAQ

Is AssemblyAI down right now?: At our last check AssemblyAI's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
How often does AssemblyAI go down?: AssemblyAI reported 14 incidents in the last 90 days (4 major or critical), with 186 minutes of major outage: 99.86% uptime.
When was the last AssemblyAI outage?: The latest reported incident started on Oct 6, 2026, 15:44 UTC: "Increased Processing Times and Errors on EU Endpoint for Universal-3 Pro Async model", resolved after 19 min.
How long do AssemblyAI outages last?: Half of AssemblyAI's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 23 min.

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