Is Stripe Down?

Stripe's infrastructure is designed with redundancy, so full outages are rare. During partial outages, payments may be queued and processed once service is restored. If the API is completely unreachable, payment attempts will fail and customers will need to retry after the outage is resolved.

Yes, Stripe maintains a detailed status page at status.stripe.com. It shows the current status of the API, Dashboard, Stripe.js, and Connect, with historical uptime data and active incident reports.

Payments that were already authorized before the outage will still be captured. New payment attempts during the outage will fail, but no money is lost. Customers can retry once service is restored, and subscription billing will catch up automatically.

Stripe has historically maintained very high uptime, typically above 99.99%. Most incidents are partial degradations affecting specific features rather than complete outages. Major incidents affecting all payment processing are extremely rare.

You can subscribe to updates on status.stripe.com via email, SMS, or RSS. For more proactive monitoring, FlareWarden can check Stripe's availability from 18 global regions and alert you before the official status page is updated.