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Is NovelAI Down?

No — NovelAI is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 274ms

Last checked · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://status.novelai.net

NovelAI uptime

100%
Last 7 days
100%
Last 30 days
100%
Last 90 days
258ms
Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 14 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

14-day clean streak
Sep 10: no data
Sep 11: no data
Sep 12: no data
Sep 13: no data
Sep 14: no data
Sep 15: no data
Sep 16: no data
Sep 17: no data
Sep 18: no data
Sep 19: no data
Sep 20: no data
Sep 21: no data
Sep 22: no data
Sep 23: no data
Sep 24: no data
Sep 25: no data
Sep 26: 100.00% uptime, 24 checks
Sep 27: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 28: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 29: 100.00% uptime, 31 checks
Sep 30: 100.00% uptime, 28 checks
Oct 1: 100.00% uptime, 30 checks
Oct 2: 100.00% uptime, 31 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, 24 checks
Sep 10 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.

jnb
295ms
DNS 18ms TCP 0ms TLS 7ms TTFB 288ms
lax
174ms
DNS 69ms TCP 2ms TLS 9ms TTFB 173ms
lhr
241ms
DNS 129ms TCP 2ms TLS 8ms TTFB 239ms
nrt
200ms
DNS 8ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 195ms
ord
100ms
DNS 33ms TCP 2ms TLS 8ms TTFB 100ms
sin
400ms
DNS 142ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 392ms
sjc
129ms
DNS 30ms TCP 1ms TLS 9ms TTFB 128ms
syd
653ms
DNS 192ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 652ms

What NovelAI does

NovelAI is a subscription service from Anlatan for AI-assisted story writing and anime-style image generation. Writers co-write fiction with its text models, steering them with Memory, Author's Note and Lorebook entries, and artists generate images with NovelAI Diffusion models such as V4.5 and V5. Anlatan runs its own trained models on GPUs provided by CoreWeave, and the site installs as a web app on phones.

What an outage looks like

Failures are usually limited to one part of the service. Image generation can stall or slow down on a single model such as V5 or V4.5 Full while text generation keeps working, or one text model can fail on its own. Login errors have hit only some networks, and payment faults leave generation untouched. Seeds producing different images after a GPU migration is a documented change, not an outage.

What to do about it

Check status.novelai.net, which splits Website, Image Generation, Text Generation, Login, Payments and NovelAI Explore. Do not reset your password to get past a login error: NovelAI warns that a reset deletes your remotely stored stories, which it cannot recover. Download any generated images you want to keep before refreshing, since NovelAI does not save them. Billing and account problems go to support@novelai.net.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says NovelAI 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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NovelAI outage FAQ

Will I lose my stories if NovelAI is down?
No, an outage does not delete stories. By default NovelAI stores them on its servers, encrypted in your browser first, so nobody but you can read them. Stories kept in local storage live only in that browser and are lost if its storage is cleared. Download All Stories under User Settings, Account saves everything as a .zip file, which is worth doing regularly.
Should I reset my NovelAI password if I cannot log in?
No, not to work around an outage. NovelAI says the most common way people lose server-stored stories is resetting the password on the login screen, which deletes them because its local encryption means it cannot recover them. Check the Login row on status.novelai.net first; in September 2026 login errors hit only a small group of users, and NovelAI suggested trying a VPN.
Are my NovelAI images saved if the page reloads?
No, NovelAI does not store image generations. They exist only for your session and are lost when you refresh or leave the Image Generation page. When generation starts failing and you are tempted to reload, first save what you want to keep; the history sidebar has a button that downloads the session's history as a .zip file.
Why is NovelAI image generation failing when the site loads?
Usually one model is affected rather than the whole service. NovelAI's incidents often name a single model: in August 2026 V5 slowed after a network error, and servers running V4.5 Full restarted unexpectedly. The models run on CoreWeave GPUs, and a compute shortage there in September 2026 temporarily took the Kayra and Erato text models offline, so try another model.
Is NovelAI down for everyone or just me?
Check status.novelai.net, which tracks its six components across CoreWeave, where the models run, and Cloudflare, which fronts the website and payments. If every row is green and only you are failing, try another network or browser before assuming an outage. The team also posts outage notices on X as @novelaiofficial, and support@novelai.net handles account and billing issues.

How we measure this

  • We request NovelAI'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 NovelAI 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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