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No incidents in the last 30 days
AIWatch Data: Based on AIWatch data from the last 30 days, Perplexity has maintained a clean record with zero incidents.
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine combining LLMs with real-time web search. It offers consumer search at perplexity.ai and an API for developers to access its search-augmented generation capabilities.
AIWatch Insight: Perplexity's status page does not publish official uptime numbers, so AIWatch estimates uptime from incident durations using Atlassian-style impact weighting. Outages often correlate with upstream LLM provider issues since Perplexity uses multiple model backends.
When Perplexity is down, both the consumer search interface (perplexity.ai) and the developer API will fail to return answers. Apps built on Perplexity API for search-augmented generation will lose their search capability.
This page provides real-time status, 30-day uptime history, and recent incident details — updated every 5 minutes by AIWatch.
Is Perplexity down right now?
Check the live status indicator at the top of this page. AIWatch monitors Perplexity every 5 minutes and shows real-time operational status.
Why is Perplexity not working?
Perplexity may be experiencing search index issues, LLM backend outages, or rate limiting. Check this page for any active incidents.
What are alternatives to Perplexity?
Based on current AIWatch data, Groq Cloud (Score: 92) and Fireworks AI (Score: 87) are the most reliable alternatives right now. For AI-powered search, ChatGPT (with browsing), Claude, or Gemini are alternatives. AIWatch shows current availability for each.
How do I check Perplexity status?
You can check Perplexity status on this page, on the official Perplexity status page at status.perplexity.com, or on the AIWatch dashboard at ai-watch.dev.