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Perplexity outage: Sonar API incident

Perplexity reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 24, 2026, 23:39 UTC. It has since been resolved.

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Aug 24, 2026, 23:39 UTC
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Feb 16, 2026, 22:27 UTC
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Timeline

updates from Perplexity's status page ↗
  1. resolvedFeb 16, 2026, 22:27 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringFeb 16, 2026, 22:14 UTC

    Sonar API is recovering. We'll continue monitoring the service and its health.

  3. identifiedFeb 16, 2026, 21:48 UTC

    We have identified the root cause and working on the mitigation.

  4. investigatingFeb 16, 2026, 21:35 UTC

    We are currently investigating this incident affecting Sonar API.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Perplexity's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

How often does Perplexity have incidents?

Perplexity reported 24 incidents in the last 90 days, 18 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 37 min. See Perplexity's uptime and incident history

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