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Perplexity

An issue affecting the stability of the website has been detected

Major outage Lasted 0m · started · Perplexity's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Major outage
Down Index
30of 100

What to do

  • Check whether your product depends on Perplexity. 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 0m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-08-24 23:39 UTC and 2025-10-20 09:55 UTC may need a replay.
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    https://down.guide/feed?provider=perplexity works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from Perplexity 5

  1. investigating

    We are investigating elevated error rates on the Perplexity website.

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  2. identified

    We are experiencing an outage related to an AWS operational issue. [https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status.](https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status) We are continuing to work on a fix for this incident.

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  3. identified

    We can confirm this is related to an AWS service disruption. We are actively working with AWS on a resolution. We will continue to update this page.

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  4. monitoring

    Most services are operational now, we are continuing to monitor

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  5. resolved

    This incident has now been resolved.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-2888d248ab

Is Perplexity still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-10-20 09:55 UTC. For Perplexity's live state, see https://down.guide/perplexity.

How long did it last?

0m, from 2026-08-24 23:39 UTC to 2025-10-20 09:55 UTC, by the times Perplexity posted.

What caused it?

Perplexity hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Perplexity's official status page, https://status.perplexity.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.