AI & Machine Learningapi.assemblyai.com

Is AssemblyAI Down Right Now?

Live global uptime status, multi-region edge latency, official incident reports, and automated monitoring for AssemblyAI.

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AssemblyAI

api.assemblyai.com

Speech-to-text and audio intelligence APIs for transcription and speaker diarization.

Operational
Edge Latency
177 ms

Primary edge roundtrip

24h Global Uptime
99.98%

Edge consensus

Vantage Points
7 Regions

NA, EU, APAC Edge DOs

Last Checked
5:23:08 AM

Edge consensus mesh

Telemetry verified by SteadyStack Autonomous Edge Network
Official Status
Automated Developer Alerting

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10-Second Edge Intervals

Continuous HTTP, WebSocket & DNS checks from 15+ global edge nodes.

4-of-7 Quorum Verification

Multi-region consensus verification prevents 3 AM wakeups from transient routing blips.

Multi-Channel Escalation

Instant alerts to Slack, Discord, Telegram, SMS, PagerDuty & Webhooks.

steadystack.config.ts
Auto-provisioned Monitor
import { defineMonitor } from "@steadystack/core";

export default defineMonitor({
  name: "AssemblyAI API & Health",
  target: "https://api.assemblyai.com",
  interval: "10s",
  consensus: { requiredRegions: 3 },
  alerts: ["slack-dev-ops", "pagerduty-p1", "discord-incidents"],
});

Global Edge Reachability & Regional Latency

Synthetic probe response times tested from SteadyStack worldwide vantage points.

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US-East (N. Virginia)
us-east
84 ms
UP
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US-West (Oregon)
us-west
107 ms
UP
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EU-Central (Frankfurt)
eu-central
150 ms
UP
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AP-Tokyo (Tokyo)
ap-northeast
215 ms
UP
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SA-East (São Paulo)
sa-east
235 ms
UP
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AF-South (Cape Town)
af-south
286 ms
UP

Downtime Impact Analysis

What happens when AssemblyAI degrades

Transcription queue backlogs, webhook notifications fail to dispatch.

Common HTTP Error Codes Observed

500 Server Error504 Gateway Timeout

Critical Monitored Subsystems

Components tracked on api.assemblyai.com

Async Transcription Queue
Synthetic Active
Streaming Real-Time API
Synthetic Active
Audio Intelligence (PII Redaction)
Synthetic Active

Engineering Resilience Guide: Surviving AssemblyAI Outages

Defensive software architecture patterns to prevent third-party cascade failures.

Immediate Tactical Steps

  • 1Check status.assemblyai.com.
  • 2Check webhook receiver URL health.

Recommended Resiliency Patterns

Circuit Breaker Pattern: Automatically trip and fallback to cache when AssemblyAI error rates exceed 15% in a 30s rolling window.

Idempotent Background Retries: Push failed API events into an asynchronous dead-letter queue with exponential backoff and jitter.

Multi-Region Edge Synthetic Consensus: Rely on SteadyStack to alert your team before end-users notice degradation.

Frequently Asked Questions: AssemblyAI Availability & Monitoring

Everything you need to know about tracking AssemblyAI outages and SLA reliability.

Our real-time global edge probes continuously test AssemblyAI (api.assemblyai.com) across multiple worldwide locations. You can check the live status badge and latency meter at the top of this page. If you are seeing errors while the global status is operational, it may be due to localized ISP routing, local DNS caching, or account-specific rate limiting.
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