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Is fal Down?

No — fal is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 294ms

Last checked · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://status.fal.ai

fal uptime

100%
Last 7 days
100%
Last 30 days
100%
Last 90 days
300ms
Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 48 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

48-day clean streak
Sep 13: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 14: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 15: 100.00% uptime, 24 checks
Sep 16: 100.00% uptime, 31 checks
Sep 17: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 18: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 19: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 20: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 21: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 22: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 23: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 24: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 25: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 26: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 27: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 28: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 29: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 30: 100.00% uptime, 30 checks
Oct 1: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 2: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 3: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 4: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 5: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 6: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 7: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 8: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 9: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 10: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 11: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 12: 100.00% uptime, 8 checks
Sep 13 Today
No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

ams
183ms
DNS 30ms TCP 8ms TLS 25ms TTFB 183ms
lhr
137ms
DNS 37ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 137ms
nrt
361ms
DNS 180ms TCP 1ms TLS 8ms TTFB 361ms
ord
272ms
DNS 213ms TCP 1ms TLS 22ms TTFB 271ms
sin
539ms
DNS 294ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 539ms
sjc
198ms
DNS 106ms TCP 1ms TLS 8ms TTFB 198ms
syd
404ms
DNS 166ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 404ms
yyz
260ms
DNS 161ms TCP 11ms TLS 33ms TTFB 260ms

What fal does

fal runs generative AI models as a hosted inference service, weighted toward image, video and audio generation. Developers call its API rather than provisioning GPUs themselves, and applications that generate media embed it directly in a product flow. An incident therefore surfaces as a feature that will not produce output inside someone else's application.

What an outage looks like

Generation requests fail or hang, and queued asynchronous jobs stop returning results, so a product feature that creates images or video sits spinning. Because inference is already the slowest step in most flows, a fault reads as ordinary slowness well before it reads as an outage. Dashboard and REST surfaces can fail separately from inference itself.

What to do about it

Check fal's status page and read which group is affected: Model API and Serverless API sit under API, while Dashboard and Serverless Dashboard form the website group. These fail independently, and fal has reported incidents hitting the REST API and web platform without affecting inference. Poll asynchronous jobs already submitted rather than resubmitting them.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says fal is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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fal outage FAQ

My generations are slow. Is fal down?
Hard to tell from latency alone, which is why this page measures reachability separately. Inference is inherently slow, so a degraded service and a large model look similar from inside your application. Check the Model API and Serverless API components, and compare against the response times you normally see rather than an absolute number.
Are queued jobs lost during an outage?
Not necessarily. fal's asynchronous inference places requests on a queue you poll for results, so a job accepted before the incident can still complete. Resubmitting the same work during an incident costs money twice and adds load to a recovering queue. Poll the original request first, then resubmit only what genuinely failed.
Can the dashboard be down while inference works?
Yes, and fal has reported exactly that. A DNS incident affecting the REST API and web platform was documented as not affecting inference services. If the dashboard will not load, your production traffic may be entirely unaffected, so check the API group before treating it as a customer-facing outage.
Does an outage affect my stored files and models?
An availability incident stops requests being served; it is not a data loss event. Outputs already generated and stored remain. What you lose is the ability to produce new ones for the duration. Applications that cache generated media for reuse ride out short incidents far better than those regenerating on every request.

How we measure this

  • We request fal's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them.
  • A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
  • A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
  • Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
  • Where fal publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.

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