- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Degraded
- Components
- Asynchronous API
- Regions
- us
- Down Index
- 32of 100
What to do
Check whether you use AssemblyAI Asynchronous API in 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 49m it lasted.
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Updates from AssemblyAI 4
- investigating
We’re seeing elevated latency and errors on async transcription submissions, and our on-call team is actively investigating. Capacity is scaling out now, and we’re monitoring recovery.
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- identified
We have identified the cause of the elevated error rates affecting asynchronous transcription requests. Our engineering team is actively restoring capacity, and error rates should improve as this completes. We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available.
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- monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring recovery.
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- resolved
This incident has been resolved. Between approximately 13:40 and 14:40 UTC, asynchronous transcription requests on our US endpoint experienced elevated latency and errors. Processing times and error rates have returned to normal ranges and the backlog has cleared.
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-ebd825a118
Is AssemblyAI still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-08-20 15:10 UTC. For AssemblyAI's live state, see https://down.guide/assemblyai.
How long did it last?
49m, from 2026-08-20 14:21 UTC to 2026-08-20 15:10 UTC, by the times AssemblyAI posted.
What was affected?
AssemblyAI named Asynchronous API in 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.