Outage recap · Perplexity AI

Perplexity outage — August 6, 2026

On August 6, 2026, Perplexity had a reported incident on Perplexity AI's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Computer Sandbox Issue

DEGRADEDPERFORMANCE
Started
Aug 6, 10:30 AM EDT
Resolved
—
Duration
not marked resolved

What our checks recorded

We checked Perplexity 24 times in the two hours after Perplexity AI's start time (it published no end time), once every five minutes. Every one of them reached Perplexity's site, so this incident did not show up as a failed page load. Our check loads the public site; it cannot see an API error or a broken feature. Median response time was 393 ms, against 354 ms over the 24 hours before.

Updates are Perplexity AI's own words from its status page (status: MONITORING); we never add an inferred cause.

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