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Perplexity status: API, auth, latency & outage reports

Perplexity is operational right now. DownForAI checks Perplexity every ~75 minutes across 2 monitored surfaces, with 0 community reports in the last 24 hours.

Operational
Last probe 10 min agoΒ·2 surfaces
Probe-monitoredMedium confidence
πŸ“‘ Official status page β†’πŸ“š Docs β†’πŸ’³ Pricing β†’
100.0%
24h Uptime
131ms
p50 Network Latencyβ“˜
345ms
p95 Network Latencyβ“˜
0
Incidents (30d)

DownForAI monitors Perplexity across two surfaces: Perplexity API and Perplexity Web. Current status: operational β€” all surfaces are responding normally. Measured uptime over the last 24 hours: 100.0%. Median response time (24 h): 88 ms; p95: 230 ms.

Perplexity has had no tracked outages since joining the DownForAI monitoring network. No community reports have been filed in the last 24 hours.

Data confidence: MediumLast checked 10 min ago Β· 2 monitored surfaces Β· 2 with 24 h latency data

Current Status

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Operational
Everything works normally
βœ“Checked by our probes Β· 70ms
Verified 9m ago
βœ“No major incident reported
β“˜No reports in the last 24h

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0reports in the last 24 hours

Surface Health

Perplexity APIOperational
HTTP 200p50 88ms9m ago
Perplexity WebOperational
HTTP 200p50 173ms39m ago

Uptime β€” last 24h

100.0%

Network latency β€” last 20 probes

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What DownForAI can verify about Perplexity

No confirmed provider-side issue detected
DownForAI currently sees Perplexity as operational based on available monitoring signals.
Signal source: official status page Β· Monitoring confidence: Medium
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Incident history (30d)

βœ“No incidents recorded in the past 30 days.

Reported symptoms

No user reports for Perplexity in the last 24 hours.

Community reports

What users are saying right now

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AnonymousπŸ’¬ down42d ago
Comet not working at all

Known error signatures

Common failure patterns and how to diagnose them

Provider details

AI-powered search engine with sourced answers. Combines LLM reasoning with real-time web search and citations. Consumer app plus Sonar API for developers.

What we monitor
perplexity.ai web β€” Consumer web interface
Perplexity mobile apps β€” Mobile backend
Sonar API β€” Developer API
Web search backend β€” Scraping/indexing infrastructure (unique dependency)
Status page segments
Web AppAPISearch Infrastructure
Model families
Sonar (proprietary search-augmented)Sonar ProClaude, GPT, Grok (Pro user choice for underlying reasoning)
Common limits & quotas
  • Free tier: limited Pro Searches per day
  • Pro tier ($20/mo): expanded Pro Searches, Deep Research access
  • Sonar API: pay-per-request with tier-based quotas
Ecosystem dependencies
Depends on web scraping/crawling infrastructure (proprietary plus upstream search providers)Underlying LLM models (Claude, GPT, etc.) β€” cascades possible from those providers
Operator notes
  • Source fetching failures are often upstream (the sites Perplexity is trying to read), not Perplexity itself
  • Deep Research is a long-running task; UI 'stuck' perception is common β€” timeouts are 5-10 min typically
  • Pro users can select the underlying reasoning model; a model-specific issue can be worked around without leaving Perplexity
  • Real-time news indexing has delay β€” not a real-time search engine like Google News
Diagnostic signals
$ curl https://api.perplexity.ai/chat/completions -H "Authorization: Bearer $PPLX_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model":"sonar","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"ping"}]}' β€” Sonar API reachability$ Check status.perplexity.ai for component-level breakdown

Fallback alternatives

What to use if this service is down

Perplexity is degraded
You.com or Kagi offer similar AI-powered search
Easy switch
Coding search specifically
Phind is an alternative
Easy switch
Only source retrieval is broken
Direct ChatGPT with web browsing or Claude with web access can reduce downtime
Easy switch
Deep research workloads
Claude Projects with manual document upload can substitute for Perplexity Deep Research
Manual setup
Moderate effort

How we monitor

DownForAI checks monitored AI service surfaces on a rotating schedule, roughly every 75 minutes per surface, from a single centralized probe infrastructure. For services with an official machine-readable status page, we use that official status signal when available. For other services, we perform a basic public-surface check. Some services block datacenter probes; in those cases we mark them as β€œMonitoring limited” instead of treating a failed probe as a confirmed outage. Status is classified as Operational, Degraded, or Outage. Network latency (check response time) measures how long the monitored endpoint took to respond to our probe β€” it is not model inference speed, time-to-first-token, or tokens-per-second performance. We are independent of all providers listed and receive no compensation to report any particular status.

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