AssemblyAI outage, 2 November 2026

Elevated errors and delays for Universal-3 Pro, Universal-3.5 Pro and Universal-3.6 Pro

Started
Resolved
2 Nov 2026, 22:58 UTC (after 1 h 15 min)
Impact
Minor
Affected
Asynchronous API

Is this still happening?

No. AssemblyAI marked this incident resolved on 2 Nov 2026, 22:58 UTC, 1 h 15 min after it began.

Right now: AssemblyAI reports all systems operational. (as of 2 Nov, 23:26 UTC) Live AssemblyAI status

Last update from AssemblyAI

We have continued to see good performance after the rollback, and error rates and processing times have remained in the normal ranges. We are now marking this issue as resolved. Any requests that returned an error during this incident can be safely resubmitted.

2 Nov 2026, 22:58 UTC

Read the full incident on the official AssemblyAI status page

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