Is Perplexity down?

Issues

This site is up for real visitors but is showing a bot challenge (e.g. Cloudflare) to automated checks — our probe was stopped at the front door. This does NOT mean the site is down.

HTTP
403
Response
46 ms
Checked (UTC)
2026-10-06T07:24:13.655Z

Perplexity outage FAQ

Is Perplexity down right now? Latest measured status above — recheck for a fresh probe during suspected outages.

Why isn't Perplexity working for me? If we report Online, the cause is usually local: Wi-Fi, VPN, DNS cache, extensions, or login state. Follow the 11-step checklist.

Where else to verify? Perplexity's official status page and social accounts, plus our live outage board.

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