Is Luma Down?
Live Luma status. Auto-refreshes every 2 minutes.
Luma is Operational
Luma is up and running normally. All systems are operational.
Official status page: status.lumalabs.ai
Component Status
Recent Luma AI incidents
What to do when Luma is down
Switch to a comparable video generator
If Dream Machine is queueing or down and you need text-to-video or image-to-video now, Runway (the Gen-3 and Gen-4 families) is the closest substitute for cinematic clips. Replicate also hosts a range of open and hosted video models you can call through one API while Luma recovers. Re-run the same prompt and compare, since each model handles motion and prompt adherence differently.
Cover the rest of your media pipeline
A Luma outage often only blocks one stage of a project. If you need still images instead of video, Stability AI covers image generation directly, and Hugging Face hosts many open image and video models you can run when a hosted API stalls. For voiceover and audio to pair with your clips, ElevenLabs is unaffected by Luma incidents.
Get notified when status changes
Rather than reloading the status page, set an alert and let us tell you the moment Luma flips between operational, degraded, and down. That way you can step away from a stuck render queue and get pinged when generation comes back online, instead of burning credits on retries during an active incident.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Luma AI down right now?
The live indicator near the top of this page is the answer. A green operational badge means the Luma API and Dream Machine are running normally; amber means degraded performance (usually slower generations or longer render queues); red means an active outage. We refresh the signal every couple of minutes from Luma's own status feed, so read the colored badge rather than relying on this text.
How do I check Luma AI status?
The fastest read is the live badge on this page, which mirrors Luma's official status page at status.lumalabs.ai. You can also open that page directly for component-level detail and any posted incident notes. For a sanity check during a suspected outage, the Luma Discord and the @LumaLabsAI account on X often confirm whether others are seeing the same failures before an incident is formally posted.
What should I do when Luma AI is down?
First confirm it is Luma and not your own setup: re-check your API key, your account credit balance, and whether you are hitting a rate limit, since those return errors that look like an outage. If Luma is genuinely down, queued Dream Machine jobs usually resume once service recovers, so avoid spamming retries that burn credits. For time-sensitive work, switch to a comparable video tool (see the fallback options below) and come back to Luma when the badge turns green.
How often does Luma AI go down, and is it reliable?
Luma is generally stable for a fast-moving generative media startup, but it is more prone to capacity-driven slowdowns than a hyperscaler API. The common pattern is degraded performance (longer render queues and slower turnaround) right after a major model launch or a viral moment, rather than a full hard outage. We do not publish a specific uptime percentage because Luma does not, so treat heavy queueing as the typical failure mode and full downtime as comparatively rare.
Which Luma models and services does this page cover?
It tracks the Luma surface as a whole: the Luma API, Dream Machine (text-to-video and image-to-video, powered by the Ray model family including Ray2), and the Photon image generation models. Note the naming can confuse people. "Dream Machine" is the consumer-facing product brand, while "Ray" and "Photon" are the underlying models you call by name through the API. A web or app outage does not always mean the API is down, and vice versa, so check the component breakdown when one part fails.
Where can I see Luma AI incident history?
Luma's official status page at status.lumalabs.ai keeps a running log of past incidents with timestamps and resolution notes, which is the authoritative record. For broader context across many providers at once, our /status dashboard tracks Luma alongside other major AI services, so you can tell whether a problem is Luma-specific or part of a wider provider event.