---
title: "Is hCaptcha Captcha API down? hCaptcha Captcha API status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/hcaptcha/captcha-api"
description: "Live hCaptcha Captcha API status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is hCaptcha Captcha API down?

**Answer:** No, hCaptcha Captcha API is not down. All hCaptcha Captcha API systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T05:10:04Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [hCaptcha](/status/hcaptcha.md)
- Official status page: https://www.hcaptchastatus.com
- About: The main captcha service: /getcaptcha, /checkcaptcha, and /siteverify.

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Captcha API

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-09-11 | [Increased endpoint latency in some regions](https://stspg.io/7pm3jjfhq6y2) | minor | 16m |
| 2025-08-21 | [Elevated latency in IAD region for connections from AWS us-east-1](https://stspg.io/vtl4hy1sk2y8) | minor | 8m |
| 2025-02-19 | [Upstream CDN issues causing increased JS SDK load error rates](https://stspg.io/hrxrdrp7bv64) | minor | 1h 32m |
| 2024-06-20 | [Elevated P99 latency on some requests](https://stspg.io/yhfr6x7cxbws) | incident | 25m |
| 2022-08-23 | [Elevated challenge rate for some users](https://stspg.io/0c0kr087bddv) | minor | 58m |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/hcaptcha/captcha-api
- Service: /status/hcaptcha.md