🟢 Is AssemblyAI Down?

Operational

Last checked: just now · Uptime (30d): 99.94% · AIWatch Score: 79 (Good)

Last incident: Apr 16, 18:37 UTC — Increased processing times and errors for Universal-2 (48m)

AssemblyAI is ranked #15 (tied) of 29 AI services by AIWatch reliability score · March 2026 Report →

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Recent Incidents · Last 30 days

Increased processing times and errors for Universal-2
Apr 16, 18:37 UTC · Resolved · 48m · minor
Degraded Async Transcription Performance
Apr 9, 21:33 UTC · Resolved · 16m · major
Pre-recorded STT requests that include Content Moderation failing
Apr 6, 21:51 UTC · Resolved · 1m
Increase in error rates for Claude Sonnet 4.6
Mar 30, 18:41 UTC · Resolved · 5h 14m · minor

About AssemblyAI

AIWatch Data: Based on AIWatch data from the last 30 days, AssemblyAI experienced 4 incidents with an average recovery time of 1h 35m. 30-day uptime: 99.94%.

AssemblyAI provides production-grade speech-to-text APIs with features like speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection. It is widely used for meeting transcription, podcast indexing, and call center analytics.

AIWatch Insight: AssemblyAI publishes per-component status (Async Transcription, Real-time Transcription, LeMUR). AIWatch tracks the API endpoint as a whole. Async transcription incidents are more common than real-time outages but generally resolve quickly.

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

This page provides real-time status, 30-day uptime history, and recent incident details — 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 async or real-time API issues. Check this page for active incidents and the official status page for component-level detail.

What are alternatives to AssemblyAI?

Based on current AIWatch data, ElevenLabs (Score: 63) and OpenRouter (Score: 82) are the most reliable alternatives right now. For speech-to-text, Deepgram and ElevenLabs (via STT features) are alternatives. 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.

Alternatives When AssemblyAI is Down

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