🟢 Is AssemblyAI Down?

No — AssemblyAI is operational

Last checked: · Uptime: 99.97% · AIWatch Score: 76 (Good)

Last incident: Oct 6, 15:44 UTC — Increased Processing Times and Errors on EU Endpoint for Universal-3 Pro Async model (20m)

AssemblyAI is ranked #19 (tied) of 35 AI services by AIWatch reliability score · Monthly Reports →

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About AssemblyAI

AIWatch Data: AssemblyAI's reported uptime is 99.97%. Based on AIWatch data from the last 30 days, it experienced 5 incidents with an average recovery time of 39 minutes.

AssemblyAI provides production-grade speech-to-text APIs with features like speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection.

When AssemblyAI is down, applications submitting transcription jobs (asynchronous or streaming) will fail. Meeting recorders, captioning services, and call analytics pipelines will queue or drop work.

This page provides real-time status and recent incident details; uptime history is shown only when the official source publishes sufficient comparable records — updated every 5 minutes by AIWatch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is AssemblyAI down right now?

Check the live status indicator at the top of this page. AIWatch monitors AssemblyAI every 5 minutes and shows real-time operational status.

Why is AssemblyAI transcription failing?

AssemblyAI may be experiencing asynchronous or streaming API issues. Check this page for active incidents and the official status page for component-level detail.

What are alternatives to AssemblyAI?

For speech-to-text, Deepgram is an alternative AIWatch also tracks. AIWatch shows current availability for each speech service.

How do I check AssemblyAI status?

You can check AssemblyAI status on this page, on the official AssemblyAI status page at status.assemblyai.com, or on the AIWatch dashboard at ai-watch.dev.

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