Is GIPHY Down?
We cannot measure GIPHY directly — it blocks automated checks — but GIPHY's own status page currently reports no issues.
Last checked · checks run every 6 hours
Official status page: https://status.giphy.com
Why there is no uptime figure on this page
The last time we fetched GIPHY's page directly, the origin answered and turned our client away rather than serving the page. That answer tells us the origin was reachable and responding, but it is a response about our automation, not about whether GIPHY works for you.
A percentage built from those checks would measure our own access, so we do not publish one. What this page does show is each region's most recent result and GIPHY's own status feed, which you can weigh yourself.
30-day history
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.
A static asset loaded in 6616ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.
A static asset loaded in 6414ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.
A static asset loaded in 7010ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.
A static asset loaded in 6168ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.
A static asset loaded in 6204ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.
A static asset loaded in 6776ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.
A static asset loaded in 6939ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.
A static asset loaded in 6916ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.
A static asset loaded in 6494ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.
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 all 18 regions to find out where it breaks.
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GIPHY outage FAQ
Why is the GIF picker broken in another app?
Is the website down or just the API?
Why do GIFs show as broken images rather than not loading at all?
Will an upload I started during an outage be lost?
Are GIFs already sent in a chat affected?
How we measure this
- We request GIPHY's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — 8 of them answered the most recent check.
- A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A
403or429means 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 GIPHY 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 — and when GIPHY blocks our checks entirely, we report the vendor's own status directly.
Get alerted when GIPHY goes down
This page refreshes every 6 hours. Your own monitors run as often as every 30 seconds, from the same 18 regions, and tell you the moment something breaks.
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