Square earns a B reliability grade from StatusBird based on the last 90 days of independent monitoring at 2-minute intervals, with 99.16% uptime and 1 detected incident.

What is Square's uptime?

Square's measured uptime over the last 90 days is 99.16%, counting major and critical outages, based on StatusBird checks every 2 minutes. The average incident lasted about 1030 minutes.

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Is Square reliable?

B StatusBird reliability grade
based on 90 days of monitoring

Data updated: July 28, 2026 · Methodology

99.16%

90-day uptime

Incidents (90 days)

1030 min

Avg incident length

May 01, 2026

Last incident

Over the last 90 days, StatusBird's independent monitoring detected 1 incident affecting Square, with a typical disruption lasting about 1030 minutes. If your store depends on Square, each of those windows is time when customers may have hit errors before you heard about it.

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