Outage recap · Perplexity AI

Perplexity outage — August 12, 2026

On August 12, 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.

Investigating API issue

MAJOROUTAGE

Started: Aug 12, 9:22 PM EDT
Resolved: —
Duration: not marked resolved

As reported by Perplexity AI's official status page (status: MONITORING). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.

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