Is Stability AI Down?
Live Stability AI status. Auto-refreshes every 2 minutes.
Stability AI is Operational
Stability AI is up and running normally. All systems are operational.
Official status page: status.stability.ai
Component Status
Recent Stability AI incidents
What to do when Stability AI is down
Fail over to a Stable Diffusion / SDXL host
Stable Diffusion and SDXL are open-weight models, so the exact models you call on Stability's platform are also served by independent inference providers running on their own infrastructure. During a Stability platform incident you can route image generation to Replicate, Together AI, or Fireworks AI, or pull weights from Hugging Face, with little to no change to your prompts.
Reach for a comparable media model
If you need generative media output and Stability is unavailable, neighboring tools cover overlapping ground: ElevenLabs for audio in place of Stable Audio, and Runway or Luma for motion if your pipeline can use video output. Check their live status before you switch so you are not failing over into a second outage.
Get notified when status changes
Skip the manual refreshing. TensorFeed can alert you the moment Stability AI's status flips between operational, degraded, and down, so you know to fail over without watching the dashboard. You can also browse the full multi-provider status board and open-weights catalog to plan a backup route in advance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Stability AI down right now?
The live indicator at the top of this page shows the current state. Green means the Stability platform API is operational, amber means degraded (generation requests are slower or queueing), and red means an outage where requests are failing. We pull this directly from Stability AI's official status page, so it reflects what Stability itself is reporting, not just our own probe.
How do I check Stability AI status?
Stability AI publishes its own status page at status.stability.ai, which is the authoritative source for platform incidents. This page mirrors that feed and refreshes every couple of minutes so you can read it alongside the rest of the AI ecosystem. If your own API calls are failing but the status page is green, also check your API key, credit balance, and the specific endpoint you are calling before assuming a platform outage.
What should I do when Stability AI is down?
First confirm it is the platform and not your integration: check your credit balance and that you are hitting the correct platform.stability.ai endpoint. Because Stable Diffusion and SDXL are open-weight models, the same models are hosted by independent providers like Replicate, Together AI, Fireworks AI, and Hugging Face, so you can often fail over there during a Stability platform incident. For Stability-exclusive models such as Stable Image Ultra, queueing and retrying with backoff is usually the only option until the platform recovers.
How often does Stability AI go down, and how reliable is it?
Stability AI's hosted platform API is generally stable, with most disruptions being brief degradations rather than full outages. Image and audio generation are compute-heavy, so the most common issue you will see is slower response times or queueing under load rather than hard downtime. Stability does not publish a formal uptime SLA the way some enterprise clouds do, so treat the official status page and incident history as your best reliability signal.
Which models and services does Stability AI run?
The platform API covers the Stable Image family (Ultra, Core, and the SD3.x / Stable Diffusion 3.5 generate endpoints), Stable Diffusion and SDXL image generation, a set of edit and control tools (inpaint, outpaint, upscale, background removal, structure and sketch control), and Stable Audio for music and sound generation. A common point of confusion: a Stability platform outage only affects models you call through platform.stability.ai. If you run Stable Diffusion or SDXL through a third-party host or locally, that is unaffected by Stability's own platform status.
Where can I see Stability AI incident history?
The official status page at status.stability.ai keeps a log of past incidents and maintenance windows, which is the best place to review historical reliability and read postmortems when Stability publishes them. For a broader cross-provider view, the TensorFeed status dashboard tracks Stability AI alongside the other major image, video, and audio model providers so you can spot whether an issue is isolated or part of a wider regional incident.