- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Partial outage
- Components
- Asynchronous API
- Regions
- eu, us
What to do
Check whether you use AssemblyAI Asynchronous API in eu, us. Check your stack
Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 25m it lasted.
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Updates from AssemblyAI 4
- investigating
We have identified an issue affecting asynchronous transcription requests using Universal-3.5 Pro on our US endpoint. Beginning at 1:35p UTC, requests have increased processing time and some are resulting in errors. Our team is working to restore normal processing. Our EU endpoint is not affected. We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available.
provider
- identified
We have identified the issue and a fix has been released. We will provide further updates as soon as we can.
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- monitoring
A fix has been implemented. We are seeing processing times return to the normal ranges and are continuing to monitor the results.
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- resolved
This incident has been resolved. Between approximately 1:35p and 2:20p UTC, async transcription requests using Universal-3.5 Pro on our US endpoint took longer than usual to complete, and some requests failed. Processing times have returned to normal ranges and any requests that failed during this window can be safely resubmitted.
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-d472223a47
Is AssemblyAI still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-10-06 14:25 UTC. For AssemblyAI's live state, see https://down.guide/assemblyai.
How long did it last?
25m, from 2026-10-06 14:00 UTC to 2026-10-06 14:25 UTC, by the times AssemblyAI posted.
What was affected?
AssemblyAI named Asynchronous API in eu, us.
What caused it?
AssemblyAI hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
AssemblyAI's official status page, https://status.assemblyai.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.