AI API status and errors
Rate limits, latency, and telling a degraded model endpoint from a slow one.
Is ChatGPT down? How to check OpenAI status in 30 seconds
ChatGPT stuck loading or the API throwing errors? How to tell in 30 seconds whether OpenAI is down for everyone, rate-limiting you specifically, or it's just your network.
Is Claude down? How to check Anthropic's status in under a minute
Claude not responding, or the Anthropic API erroring inside your app? How to tell fast whether Anthropic is down for everyone, throttling your key, or it's a problem on your side.
Is Gemini down? How to check Google's AI status
Gemini stuck, refusing to answer, or the API returning errors? A quick way to tell whether Google's AI is down globally, degraded, rate-limiting you, or it's a local problem.
Why your AI API keeps returning 429 (and how to stop it)
A 429 from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google isn't an outage, it's a rate limit. What actually triggers RPM/TPM caps, how to back off correctly, and how to tell a limit apart from a real outage.
Is the AI API down, or just slow? How to tell them apart
Timeouts and long waits feel like an outage but usually aren't. How to distinguish a genuine LLM-provider outage from latency, throttling, or a long streaming response.