Is GIPHY Down?

No — GIPHY is up

GIPHY's status page: Operational · no open incidents
FlareWarden checks: Website reachable · 8 of 8 regions · 247 ms

Right now

The verdict is the worse of these two. How we decide

GIPHY's status page

status.giphy.com · read 3 minutes ago · checked every 3 minutes

Operational

GIPHY's components, as its status page reports them
Component	Status
Homepage	Operational
Search	Operational
Developers	Operational
Media	Operational
Search	Operational
Trending	Operational
Translate	Operational
Random	Operational
Upload	Operational

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FlareWarden checks

giphy.com from 8 regions · when you open this page (at most every 30 minutes), otherwise every 6 hours

Reachable

Regions up: 8 of 8
Response: 247 ms
Checked: 3 hours ago

By region

Amsterdam reachable, 205 ms
Chicago reachable, 142 ms
Paris reachable, 184 ms
San Jose reachable, 241 ms
Singapore reachable, 382 ms
Stockholm reachable, 218 ms
Sydney reachable, 410 ms
Toronto reachable, 201 ms

Timing by region

Connection timing for each region that loaded the page
Region	DNS	TCP	TLS	TTFB
Amsterdam	36 ms	3 ms	7 ms	193 ms
Chicago	27 ms	1 ms	4 ms	130 ms
Paris	28 ms	1 ms	9 ms	177 ms
San Jose	77 ms	1 ms	5 ms	231 ms
Singapore	7 ms	1 ms	4 ms	309 ms
Stockholm	51 ms	0 ms	5 ms	204 ms
Sydney	142 ms	1 ms	4 ms	403 ms
Toronto	102 ms	0 ms	7 ms	191 ms

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History

Incidents GIPHY reported

Since Oct 22, 3 days · from status.giphy.com

Incidents: 0
Major or critical: 0
Median to resolve: —

No incidents reported in this window.

GIPHY website availability

Measured by FlareWarden · giphy.com

Last 7 days: 100%
Last 30 days: 100%
Last 90 days: 100%
Avg response, 30 days: 339ms

Last 30 days

68-day clean streak

Sep 25 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Measured by FlareWarden's own checks of giphy.com from multiple regions every 6 hours. GIPHY's status page sets the verdict above when it reports trouble, but never these figures. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 68 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

What GIPHY does

GIPHY hosts a searchable library of animated GIFs, clips and stickers, used both directly on giphy.com and through an API that other applications embed to power their own GIF pickers. That second role makes it a dependency for products that never mention it by name, which is why a GIPHY problem often surfaces inside a different app.

What an outage looks like

GIF search returns nothing or spins indefinitely, in a chat app rather than on GIPHY itself, which is how most people encounter it. Images resolve as broken thumbnails where a GIF should render, because the media host is separate from search. Uploads fail or hang partway. The GIPHY site can load normally while the API behind other apps is the part that is failing.

What to do about it

Check status.giphy.com, which separates the website components from the API, and tracks Search, Trending, Translate, Random and Upload individually, with Media listed apart from both. If a GIF picker inside another app is broken, the API components are the ones that matter, not the homepage. There is no recovery action to take beyond waiting, since nothing you send is lost.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says GIPHY 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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GIPHY outage FAQ

Why is the GIF picker broken in another app?

Because many apps embed the GIPHY API rather than hosting their own library. When GIPHY's search or trending endpoints are degraded, the picker inside that app returns nothing, even though the app itself is perfectly healthy. This is the most common way a GIPHY outage is noticed, and it is why checking GIPHY is worth doing before reporting a bug to the other vendor.

Is the website down or just the API?

They are tracked separately, so either can fail alone. GIPHY lists the homepage, search and developer components under web and mobile, and lists the API endpoints on their own. giphy.com loading normally does not mean integrations are working, and a broken site does not necessarily mean the API is down. Check the specific component that matches how you use it.

Why do GIFs show as broken images rather than not loading at all?

Because delivery of the media files is a separate component from search. If search succeeds and media delivery is degraded, the app finds results and then fails to render them, which appears as broken thumbnails rather than an empty picker. The distinction is useful: broken images point at media delivery, an empty result set points at search.

Will an upload I started during an outage be lost?

An upload that failed did not complete, so the file stays on your device and can be re-uploaded once the service recovers. Upload is tracked as its own component and can fail while search works normally. Nothing already published to your GIPHY account is affected by an outage, and existing links resume working when media delivery returns.

Are GIFs already sent in a chat affected?

They can appear broken while the outage lasts, because most chat apps embed a link to the hosted file rather than copying it. The message itself is intact and the image returns once delivery recovers. Nothing needs re-sending, and re-sending during an incident only adds duplicates that will all render once the service is healthy again.

How we measure this

We request GIPHY's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them. When you open this page and our last check is more than 30 minutes old, we check again on the spot; those checks update the verdict, never the availability figures.
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. Our checks only change their 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 GIPHY publishes an official status feed we read it too, and the verdict is the worse of what it reports and what our checks see: a major outage of GIPHY itself is Down, trouble with one part of it is Degraded, problems at a few of a provider's many locations change nothing, and a security notice that marks nothing down is shown but changes nothing either. We check the feed every 3 minutes and read it again within minutes of any change to its incidents or components; a reading counts for 45 minutes after the last check that found nothing changed. The availability figures above are our measurement alone.

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