Major incident

SerpApi: Performance Degradation

Affected: API, Search API, Images Light API, Lens API, Local API

Current status of SerpApi: Minor issues — live SerpApi status

Timeline

1. Jul 7, 2026, 15:46 UTC
   investigating
   We're currently investigating longer response times and lower success rates across APIs.
2. Jul 7, 2026, 18:16 UTC
   identified
   Our engineers identified the cause of the current performance degradation within an upstream component of our infrastructure. We are actively implementing improvements to stabilize performance across affected APIs.
3. Jul 8, 2026, 06:13 UTC
   monitoring
   We're seeing a better performance for hours. However, we're still monitoring the situation.
4. Jul 12, 2026, 11:59 UTC
   resolved
   The performance has been stable for the past few days after we made some changes internal changes. We'll continue monitoring and making adjustments. This issue is considered resolved now.

Updates as published by SerpApi (original).