hCaptcha outage history and status
Is hCaptcha down right now?
No
All Systems Operational Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 16:17 UTC (refreshing…)
Open incidents
100%
uptime, 90 days
2
incidents, 90 days
8 min
median time to fix
Sep 11, 2026
last incident
hCaptcha components
- Captcha API Operational
- Dashboard Operational
- Stats API Operational
- User Management API Operational
- Enterprise Reporting APIs Operational
hCaptcha outage history
| Started (UTC) | Incident | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2026, 14:04 UTC | Increased endpoint latency in some regions Captcha API | Minor | 16 min |
| Jul 29, 2026, 17:31 UTC | Increased 429 rates on several ASNs | No impact | <1 min |
| May 5, 2026, 14:37 UTC | Increased error rate on API loads | No impact | — |
| Dec 19, 2025, 15:57 UTC | Increased latency on API calls in some regions | Minor | — |
| Oct 21, 2025, 21:29 UTC | hCaptcha is completely unaffected by the AWS outages | No impact | <1 min |
| Oct 8, 2025, 16:05 UTC | Maintenance to Passkey support Dashboard | No impact | 9 min |
| Sep 8, 2025, 15:22 UTC | Elevated P99 times in South America (Brazil) regions | Minor | <1 min |
| Aug 21, 2025, 19:39 UTC | Elevated latency in IAD region for connections from AWS us-east-1 Captcha API | Minor | 8 min |
| Jun 12, 2025, 19:01 UTC | Increased error rates for Google SSO due to Google outage Dashboard | Minor | 1 h 44 min |
| Mar 11, 2025, 11:58 UTC | Inbound support email deliverability issues Dashboard | No impact | <1 min |
| Feb 19, 2025, 22:49 UTC | Upstream CDN issues causing increased JS SDK load error rates Captcha API | Minor | 1 h 32 min |
| Jun 20, 2024, 19:58 UTC | Elevated P99 latency on some requests Captcha API, Stats API, User Management API, Enterprise Reporting APIs | No impact | 25 min |
| Mar 22, 2024, 03:30 UTC | China region endpoints: elevated error rates | Minor | <1 min |
| Mar 15, 2024, 14:25 UTC | Reminder: Please ensure your server's root CA certificates are up to date | No impact | — |
| Sep 13, 2023, 02:12 UTC | Elevated scores for some traffic | Minor | — |
| Dec 19, 2022, 22:08 UTC | Elevated error rates on token verification | Minor | — |
| Dec 18, 2022, 05:00 UTC | Elevated error rates for some mainland China users | Minor | <1 min |
| Nov 20, 2022, 05:39 UTC | Certificate issue on some China endpoints | Minor | — |
| Nov 12, 2022, 17:56 UTC | Elevated challenge rate on some sites | No impact | — |
| Nov 8, 2022, 08:30 UTC | Challenge images failed to load for some WAF customer sites | Minor | <1 min |
| Aug 23, 2022, 12:34 UTC | Elevated challenge rate for some users Captcha API, Dashboard | Minor | 58 min |
| Jun 24, 2022, 15:05 UTC | Dashboard login services under maintenance Dashboard | Minor | 53 min |
| Apr 22, 2022, 16:48 UTC | Dashboard SSO logins under maintenance Dashboard | Minor | 9 min |
| Dec 16, 2021, 20:57 UTC | Elevated error rates | Minor | — |
| Aug 30, 2021, 23:30 UTC | Asset redirection, Elevated error rates on some image URIs | No impact | <1 min |
46 incidents in our archive since May 5, 2020.
When and where hCaptcha fails
By weekday
Most incidents start on Thu.
- Mon4
- Tue9
- Wed8
- Thu11
- Fri9
- Sat2
- Sun3
Most affected, last 12 months
- Captcha API1
- Dashboard1
- Stats API1
When hCaptcha went down with others
- Sep 11, 2026, 13:38 UTC 22 services reported incidents within the hour
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FAQ
- Is hCaptcha down right now?
- At our last check hCaptcha's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
- How often does hCaptcha go down?
- hCaptcha reported 2 incidents in the last 90 days (0 major or critical), with 0 minutes of major outage: 100% uptime.
- When was the last hCaptcha outage?
- The latest reported incident started on Sep 11, 2026, 14:04 UTC: "Increased endpoint latency in some regions", resolved after 16 min.
- How long do hCaptcha outages last?
- Half of hCaptcha's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 8 min.
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