Is Polymarket Down?

No — Polymarket is up

Polymarket's status page: Operational · read 4 hours ago, too long ago to count
FlareWarden checks: Website reachable · 8 of 8 regions · 112 ms

Right now

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

Polymarket's status page

status.polymarket.com · read 3 hours ago · too long ago to set the verdict

Operational

Polymarket's components, as its status page reports them
Component	Status
Polymarket Web App	Operational
Account Access & Authentication	Operational
Predictions	Operational
Perpetuals	Operational
Predictions Trading API (CLOB)	Operational
Websocket (RTDS)	Operational
Markets and Position Data	Operational
Clob Websocket	Operational
On-chain Settlement (Polygon RPC)	Operational
Perpetuals Trading	Operational
Perpetuals API	Operational
Perpetuals Market Data	Operational

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FlareWarden checks

polymarket.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: 112 ms
Checked: 3 hours ago

By region

Ashburn reachable, 97 ms
Dallas reachable, 135 ms
Frankfurt reachable, 125 ms
Johannesburg reachable, 113 ms
Newark reachable, 124 ms
Paris reachable, 114 ms
Stockholm reachable, 93 ms
São Paulo reachable, 98 ms

Timing by region

Connection timing for each region that loaded the page
Region	DNS	TCP	TLS	TTFB
Ashburn	0 ms	1 ms	6 ms	69 ms
Dallas	12 ms	2 ms	6 ms	107 ms
Frankfurt	8 ms	2 ms	8 ms	100 ms
Johannesburg	9 ms	1 ms	6 ms	92 ms
Newark	9 ms	1 ms	8 ms	97 ms
Paris	15 ms	1 ms	9 ms	96 ms
Stockholm	0 ms	1 ms	5 ms	66 ms
São Paulo	7 ms	2 ms	7 ms	69 ms

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History

Incidents Polymarket reported

from status.polymarket.com

We don't have Polymarket's incident history yet.

Polymarket website availability

Measured by FlareWarden · polymarket.com

Last 7 days: 100%
Last 30 days: 100%
Last 90 days: 100%
Avg response, 30 days: 199ms

Last 30 days

30-day clean streak

Sep 25 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Measured by FlareWarden's own checks of polymarket.com from multiple regions every 6 hours. Polymarket's status page sets the verdict above when it reports trouble, but never these figures. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 30 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

What Polymarket does

Polymarket is a prediction market: users trade shares in the outcomes of real-world events with each other, and prices reflect the market's view of how likely each outcome is. Orders are matched off-chain by Polymarket's order book, the CLOB, and settled on the Polygon blockchain in pUSD. The platform is non-custodial, so funds and positions sit in the user's own wallet. It also runs a Perpetuals product.

What an outage looks like

Most incidents are trading problems rather than a dead website. The status page labels them Trading Degraded: order placement, cancels or fills stop, or open orders read back late. During recovery Polymarket often switches to cancel-only mode, where new orders are rejected with a message that trading is currently cancel-only while cancels still work. Slow Polygon block production, as on September 19, 2026, also delays trades.

What to do about it

Check status.polymarket.com and read the Predictions Trading API (CLOB) and On-chain Settlement (Polygon RPC) rows, not only the Web App row. In cancel-only mode you can still cancel resting orders; new orders wait until trading resumes. Planned matching engine restarts are announced ahead of time in Polymarket's Telegram and Discord trading API channels. Funds and positions are held on-chain in your wallet, not on the website.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Polymarket 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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Polymarket outage FAQ

What is cancel-only mode on Polymarket?

Cancel-only mode is a restricted trading state in which new orders are rejected but cancel requests still go through. Polymarket's documentation says order endpoints return a 503 error saying trading is currently cancel-only. The status page shows Polymarket used it repeatedly during the August 30 to September 1 and September 19, 2026 incidents, sometimes announcing a 15-minute cancel-only window before normal trading resumed.

What happens to my open orders when Polymarket trading is paused?

Polymarket's docs say a resting limit order stays open until another order matches it, you cancel it, or a Good Till Date order expires. In cancel-only mode you can still withdraw orders. API traders who have turned on heartbeats are the exception: if the order book gets no valid heartbeat for 10 seconds, it cancels every open order for those API credentials. After a matching engine restart, two minutes of post-only trading follow.

Does Polymarket hold my funds during an outage?

No. Polymarket's documentation describes the platform as non-custodial: assets are held in your own wallet, secured by your private key, and trades and positions are recorded on-chain. The docs also say the exchange operator can match orders but cannot execute trades users did not authorize. Settlement is atomic, so a matched trade either completes in full on Polygon or does not happen at all.

Why is Polymarket trading down when the website loads?

Because the website and the order book are separate systems with separate rows on status.polymarket.com. Polymarket Web App and Account Access and Authentication sit apart from the Predictions group, which holds the Trading API (CLOB), both websockets, Markets and Position Data, and On-chain Settlement (Polygon RPC). Most recent incidents were Trading Degraded on the Predictions side, and the Web App row has logged far less downtime.

How long do Polymarket outages usually last?

Recent trading incidents have lasted from under 20 minutes to about four hours. On the status page, the September 23, 2026 Trading Degraded incident was resolved in about 17 minutes, and September 19 brought two, of about two hours and about 40 minutes. The longest recent one, on August 31, paused trading for over four hours while a fix for delayed open order reads was applied.

How we measure this

We request Polymarket'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 Polymarket 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 Polymarket 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. A reading counts for 45 minutes; we read the feed again within minutes of any change to its incidents. The availability figures above are our measurement alone.

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