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Is fal.ai down right now? Live status and outage tracker

No, fal.ai is up.

No outage detected, and no user reports in the last hour.

Live Data refreshes every 5 minutes
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User reports, last 24 hours, 15 minutes a segment: 96 flowing, 0 slow (elevated), 0 jammed (outage)

User reports, last 24 hours

No reports in this window

No problem reports came in for fal.ai in the last hour, and at this time of day there are usually almost none. There has been no spike in reports since 5 October.

No user reports came in for fal.ai in the past 24 hours, and its uptime over that window is 100.00%. No 15-minute window had any reports at all, so the chart above stays flat.
Reports, last hour
0
Quiet
Uptime, 24 h
100.00%
No outage windows
Last outage
None
In the last 24 hours
Busiest 15 minutes
0
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Last 24 hours

fal.ai outages and problems

No user reports came in for fal.ai in the past 24 hours, and its uptime over that window is 100.00%.

No 15-minute window had any reports at all, so the chart above stays flat.

No problems detected in the last 24 hoursReports for fal.ai stayed at their usual level the whole time.
Report categories

What people can report about fal.ai

People who report a problem with fal.ai to the outage-report feed behind this page can tag what is affected. These are the categories they can pick; the feed shows no counts per category:

  • Website
  • Login
  • App
  • API
  • Lag
  • AI generation
Last 30 days

fal.ai problem spikes, last 30 days

Since 5 October, fal.ai had no outage spikes or periods of elevated reports.

  • Sat 3 Oct: no data
  • Sun 4 Oct: no data
  • Mon 5 Oct: 0 reports
  • Tue 6 Oct: 0 reports
  • Wed 7 Oct: 0 reports
  • Thu 8 Oct: 0 reports
  • Fri 9 Oct: 0 reports
  • Sat 10 Oct: 0 reports
  • Sun 11 Oct: 0 reports
  • Mon 12 Oct: 0 reports
  • Tue 13 Oct: 0 reports
  • Wed 14 Oct: 0 reports
  • Thu 15 Oct: 0 reports
  • Fri 16 Oct: 0 reports
  • Sat 17 Oct: 0 reports
  • Sun 18 Oct: 0 reports
  • Mon 19 Oct: 0 reports
  • Tue 20 Oct: 0 reports
  • Wed 21 Oct: no data
  • Thu 22 Oct: 0 reports
  • Fri 23 Oct: 0 reports
  • Sat 24 Oct: 0 reports
  • Sun 25 Oct: 0 reports
  • Mon 26 Oct: 0 reports
  • Tue 27 Oct: 0 reports
  • Wed 28 Oct: 0 reports
  • Thu 29 Oct: 0 reports
  • Fri 30 Oct: 0 reports
  • Sat 31 Oct: 0 reports
  • Sun 1 Nov: no data

A spike is a sharp rise in problem reports from users, kept exactly as this page showed it at the time. This history starts on 5 October 2026. Monthly reports for all services

Troubleshooting

How to fix fal.ai not working

fal.ai is up on our end, so if it won't work for you, the problem is most likely on your side. Work through these in order:

Your browser tries to reach fal.ai over your own connection, right now. Nothing is sent to us or stored.

  1. Reload the fal.ai tab

    Close the tab, open a new one, and load the service again. A stale session or a request stuck in the background can leave the page on a spinner, so a fresh load often clears it.

  2. Check the fal.ai status page

    Open https://status.fal.ai and compare the report level with what you see. The page shows whether problem reports are above their usual level, counted in 15-minute windows over the last 24 hours, and it does not ping or probe the service itself.

  3. Try a private window or another network

    Open a private window and sign in to the service again. If the page loads there, clear cookies and site data for fal.ai in your browser settings; if it still fails, switch from Wi-Fi to mobile data or test on another device.

  4. Check your fal.ai API key and request

    If the web app works but your own code fails, run `echo $FAL_KEY` in the same shell or container that starts your request. Open the dashboard and make sure the key is active and has access to the model you are calling. A key without that access returns an authorization error.

While fal.ai is down: what to use instead

  • Replicate Replicate hosts many of the same open models, including Flux and several video generators, so you can point a script at its API with a new key and keep a batch job running while your usual requests time out or sit in the queue.
  • Together AI It serves Flux image models through an OpenAI-style API, which helps if your code already speaks that format.
  • Hugging Face Spaces Good for a quick test: many popular image models have a free hosted demo where you can type a prompt in the browser and check results by hand.
  • ComfyUI on your own GPU If you have a card with enough memory, download the open weights and run the workflow locally, because then no outside outage can stop your renders.
Your device

Fix fal.ai on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone

fal.ai on Windows

Fix
Clear your web browser cache or check your network adapter settings if the fal.ai console fails to load. If using the SDK, verify that your Windows environment variables for the fal.ai API key are correctly configured.
Check
Try accessing the fal.ai playground in your browser or test connection to the API endpoint. You can also check the official fal.ai status page for cloud service outages.
Command Prompt
ping fal.aiTest whether fal.ai's servers reply
nslookup fal.aiCheck that fal.ai's DNS resolves
tracert fal.aiTrace where the connection drops
ipconfig /flushdnsClear the DNS cache, then reload

fal.ai on Mac

Fix
Clear your browser data in Safari or Chrome, or renew your DHCP lease in macOS System Settings if fal.ai is unreachable. Ensure your terminal environment has the correct fal.ai credentials exported.
Check
Attempt to load the fal.ai dashboard in a web browser or use network diagnostics to test connection to the fal.ai API. Check developer forums or status pages to see if the service is down for others.
Terminal
ping -c 4 fal.aiTest whether fal.ai's servers reply
nslookup fal.aiCheck that fal.ai's DNS resolves
traceroute fal.aiTrace where the connection drops
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponderFlush the macOS DNS cache, then reload

fal.ai on Android

Fix
Clear your mobile browser's cache or switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data to restore access to the fal.ai website. If you are running code on Android, verify that your API requests to fal.ai are not blocked by a VPN.
Check
Open the fal.ai website in a mobile browser to see if the landing page and playground load. You can also use a network testing app to verify if the fal.ai API servers are reachable.

fal.ai on iPhone and iPad

Fix
Clear your Safari website data in iOS Settings, or toggle Airplane Mode to reset your connection to fal.ai. Ensure that any iOS developer tools you are using have cellular data permissions enabled for fal.ai requests.
Check
Try loading the fal.ai console in Safari to check if the web platform is online. Check third-party status checkers or developer communities to see if there is a widespread fal.ai API outage.
About

What happens when fal.ai goes down

fal.ai runs generative models. Developers plug it into apps for Flux images and Kling videos, so when it stalls you get stuck queues and failed callbacks instead of files.

Jobs stick in queue. Image generation through the API tends to fail first because requests pile up, while the dashboard loads yet previews stay blank or still never render. Video renders hang longest and you wait with no file at the end. Problems hit one model at a time more than all at once, so Flux might stall while audio transcription keeps working for you.

Servers and network

fal.ai IP address, servers and network

IPv4 address
216.150.1.1
IPv6
Not offered
Network
AS16509 · Amazon.com, Inc., registered in the United States
Served through
Cloudflare · our check was answered by its Frankfurt (FRA) data centre
DNS hosted by
Cloudflare
HTTPS certificate
Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until 20 Jan 2027 (80 days)
HTTP/3
Not advertised
Our check
Answered in 97 ms

Checked from our server in Frankfurt, Germany, 4 days ago, for fal.ai. A service behind a CDN answers from many data centres, usually the one nearest to you, so these addresses are where its traffic enters, not where its own servers stand. Visitors elsewhere may see different addresses.

Checked from 11 places around the world

All 11 locations got an answer from fal.ai. Fastest from São Paulo (132 ms), slowest from Singapore (309 ms). Every location connected to the same address, on Amazon.com, Inc. (AS16509).

LocationResultTimeAddress reached
FrankfurtGermanyUp162 ms216.150.1.1
ViennaAustriaUp160 ms216.150.1.1
MilanItalyUp136 ms216.150.1.1
ParisFranceUp169 ms216.150.1.1
AmsterdamNetherlandsUp172 ms216.150.1.1
MadridSpainUp177 ms216.150.1.1
WarsawPolandUp201 ms216.150.1.1
Los AngelesUSAUp138 ms216.150.1.1
São PauloBrazilUp132 ms216.150.1.1
SingaporeSingaporeUp309 ms216.150.1.1
TokyoJapanUp175 ms216.150.1.1

Checked with check-host.net from its servers in these cities 4 days ago, for fal.ai. Time is how long each server took to load the page.

Questions

fal.ai FAQ

Is fal.ai down right now?
The status at the top of this page shows whether user reports are above their usual level, counted in 15-minute windows over the last 24 hours. You can cross-check the official status page for fal.ai, then retry one playground prompt off VPN because local blocks often still fail for you alone. Start with that test.

Why does my generation sit in queue forever?
Your prompt stays queued when the model endpoint is backed up or your requests pile past your concurrency limit. Lower parallel calls and retry one small image prompt after a minute, since a flood of video jobs can block everything behind it. Refresh, then resubmit once.

My API key was working, why is it rejected?
Check if you rotated or pasted a new key without updating your server env file, because old keys stop the moment you revoke them now. Copy the key again from your dashboard and test one call from a clean terminal. Keys break without warning.

What should I do when the playground shows a failed generation?
A failed preview often means your image size or safety filter tripped while the prompt itself looks fine. Trim to one short test with default settings and small output, then add detail back because large video jobs time out first. Save those working settings.

Do failed generations still use up my credits?
Failed runs still burn credits when the model starts work and then fails, though queue rejections before start seldom charge. Open billing history and compare timestamps because retries double spend fast. Pause and shrink tests.
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How we track fal.ai

The status on this page comes from user-submitted problem reports for fal.ai, counted in 15-minute windows over the last 24 hours. Each window is compared with the normal level for fal.ai, so a few complaints on a quiet day don't trigger anything, but a sudden jump well above normal does.

When reports climb well above normal, the status here changes to partial outage or major outage and the chart moves with it. This is separate from fal.ai's official status page: user reports tend to show a problem early, while the official page confirms the cause. If the two disagree, check both.

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