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

# Is Unsplash API down?

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

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T06:40:22Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Unsplash](/status/unsplash.md) / Backend Service
- Official status page: https://status.unsplash.com
- About: API servers

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting API

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-06-22 | [Increased error rate](https://stspg.io/89qwkq5cgy36) | major | 6h 2m |
| 2026-03-02 | [Increased error rate](https://stspg.io/j2p9132r795w) | incident | 6h 4m |
| 2025-10-20 | [AWS us-east issues](https://stspg.io/sbn3vbk2330q) | minor | 3h 22m |
| 2025-05-20 | [Performance issues after DB upgrade](https://stspg.io/5j7ld5g8pf8z) | minor | 10h 41m |
| 2025-05-19 | [Performance issues during database upgrade](https://stspg.io/frvd7138v6n6) | incident | 4h 52m |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/unsplash/api
- Service: /status/unsplash.md