Is Vercel down?
Updated Oct 08, 2026 15:40 UTC. StatusBird re-checks Vercel's status page every 2 minutes.
- Current state
- Operational
- Changed
- Oct 06, 2026 16:28 UTC
- Held for
- 1 day 23 hours
Vercel is currently operational as of Oct 08, 2026 15:40 UTC, with no outage reported on its official status page. StatusBird reads Vercel's status page every 2 minutes and, on the Pro plan, alerts subscribers by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord within that cycle; the free email alert on this page covers major and critical outages with no account.
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Vercel uptime and incident history
30-day uptime, from checks every 2 minutes.
Over the past 90 days StatusBird recorded 1 major or critical Vercel incident totalling 54 minutes of downtime, for 99.96% availability and a A+ reliability grade, across 64,657 independent checks. Full history: Vercel reliability report.
Vercel's 90-day uptime of 99.96% is above the Infrastructure category average of 99.21% across the 4 services StatusBird monitors in that category.
Vercel risk in the next 24 hours
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any Vercel degradation in the next 24 hours at 40% (high) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 1% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often Vercel has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
- 52 degraded-or-worse episodes in the last 180 days
- an episode in the last 7 days; incidents cluster
- 2 major outages in the last 180 days
Scored Oct 08, 2026 15:36 UTC, and rescored every 10 minutes. Method: how StatusBird measures and scores.
How do I get notified when Vercel has an outage?
Three options, from free to full coverage. Plan details are as published on StatusBird's pricing page and www.vercel-status.com as of October 08, 2026.
- Free email alert on this page. The form above emails you when Vercel enters a major or critical outage and again when it recovers. No account, no card.
- A StatusBird account. The free plan monitors 1 service with a live dashboard and a day-after incident digest. Pro ($29/month) checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, with quiet hours and per-service thresholds; Business is $49/month and Agency $99/month. Create a free account.
- Vercel's own status page. www.vercel-status.com offers the subscription options on www.vercel-status.com, where available. It is the official record and worth subscribing to alongside any monitor; it updates when Vercel confirms an incident.
Full guide: Best downtime alert services for online store owners (2026).
About Vercel
Frontend cloud platform for deploying web applications. Vercel downtime can take storefronts and headless e-commerce frontends completely offline.
StatusBird monitors Vercel every 2 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When an outage or degradation is detected, StatusBird sends instant alerts so you can act before your customers notice. The 30-day uptime percentage and incident history above reflect live data from our monitoring network.
Vercel last five incidents
Every non-operational episode StatusBird measured in the last 90 days, newest first, labelled by the worst status reached. The availability figures above count major and critical outages only.
| Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Worst status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 06, 2026 16:12 | Oct 06, 2026 16:28 | 16 minutes | degraded |
| Oct 06, 2026 09:20 | Oct 06, 2026 09:38 | 18 minutes | degraded |
| Oct 06, 2026 09:12 | Oct 06, 2026 09:18 | 6 minutes | degraded |
| Sep 28, 2026 13:44 | Sep 28, 2026 14:13 | 28 minutes | degraded |
| Sep 18, 2026 21:36 | Sep 18, 2026 22:32 | 56 minutes | degraded |
20 episodes in total over the last 90 days, 1 of them major or critical.
What to do when Vercel is down
When Vercel goes down, do three things first: confirm the outage is on their side, protect whatever the outage is breaking in your store, and tell affected customers before they find out the hard way. This playbook walks through each step for Vercel specifically.
How do I confirm Vercel is actually down?
Check two independent sources before changing anything in your store. First, StatusBird's live Vercel status page, which is based on independent checks every 2 minutes. Second, Vercel's own status page at www.vercel-status.com. If the official page still shows green, do not assume you are wrong: vendors often acknowledge incidents well after they start. If both look clean, the problem is more likely your store's configuration or a specific integration.
What does a Vercel outage look like?
- Storefront returning 500-series errors, timeouts, or a blank page for all visitors
- Pages render but cart, search, or account features backed by serverless functions fail
- Deployments stuck in queue or failing in the Vercel dashboard
- Vercel dashboard itself slow or unreachable
- Sudden traffic and sales flatline in analytics
What breaks in your store
If your storefront is hosted on Vercel, a Vercel outage can take your entire site offline: customers get errors or timeouts on every page, which means zero traffic, zero conversions, and zero revenue until it recovers. Partial incidents can be subtler, with serverless or edge functions failing so pages load but cart actions, search, or API-backed features break. Deployments can also fail, blocking you from shipping fixes. Your commerce backend and its hosted checkout may remain healthy even while the Vercel-hosted frontend is dark.
For context, StatusBird's independent monitoring recorded 2 major Vercel incidents in the last 90 days, with an average duration of 1 hour. Details are on the Vercel reliability page.
What to do during the outage
- Point customers to your platform's hosted checkout or a backup domain if the backend is still up.
- Post on social channels and email lists that the site is temporarily down with a direct link that works.
- Avoid pushing new deployments mid-incident since builds may fail or behave unpredictably.
- If DNS is under your control and you maintain a static fallback page, switch traffic to it.
- Confirm the issue on the Vercel status page before rolling back your own recent deploys.
These steps follow the same logic Google codifies in its Site Reliability Engineering chapter on managing incidents: establish what is actually happening, contain the damage, and communicate clearly while the incident is still running.
Frequently asked questions
My whole store is on Vercel and it is down. Is my data safe?
Yes. Vercel hosts your frontend code and functions, while your products, orders, and customers live in your commerce backend such as Shopify or your database. An availability incident does not delete anything; the store returns as soon as hosting recovers.
Can I move off Vercel quickly during an outage?
An emergency migration mid-outage is rarely practical because DNS changes, builds, and environment variables take time. The better play is a prepared fallback, such as a static maintenance page or your platform's hosted storefront, that you can switch on within minutes.
After the outage
Once Vercel recovers, verify the affected workflows end to end rather than trusting the status page. Note the start and end times while they are fresh: if you are on a paid Vercel plan with an SLA, documented downtime is what a service credit claim is built on. See how to claim SLA credits for the process.
How this data is measured
StatusBird checks Vercel's status every 2 minutes, around the clock, independently of the vendor. The availability figure counts major and critical outages only; minor degradation is excluded so numbers are not skewed by vendors that report small blips near-continuously. Grades run from A+ to F. See the live numbers on the Vercel reliability page and current status on the Vercel status page, or browse all 84 service grades.
This playbook was published separately until September 2026. It now lives here, alongside the live Vercel status it applies to.
Vercel status FAQ
Is Vercel down right now?
No. Vercel is operational in StatusBird's independent monitoring. That state began Oct 06, 2026 at 16:28 UTC and has lasted 1 day 23 hours. Last checked Oct 08, 2026 at 15:40 UTC.
How often does Vercel go down?
StatusBird recorded 1 major or critical Vercel incident in the last 90 days, totalling 54 minutes of downtime. That is 99.96% availability and a A+ reliability grade.
How long do Vercel outages usually last?
Across the major and critical Vercel incidents StatusBird measured in the last 90 days, the average length was 1 hour 32 minutes. Counting every non-operational episode, including degraded performance, the average was 1 hour 17 minutes.
What is the chance Vercel has a problem in the next 24 hours?
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any Vercel degradation in the next 24 hours at 40% (high) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 1% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often Vercel has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
What should I do when Vercel goes down?
Confirm the outage is on Vercel's side rather than in your store, protect whatever the outage is breaking, and tell affected customers before they find out the hard way. The full step-by-step playbook for a Vercel outage is on this page, under 'What to do when Vercel is down'.
How do I get notified when Vercel goes down?
Use the free email alert form on this page, which needs no account and covers major and critical outages. Or open a StatusBird account: the free plan monitors 1 service with a next-day digest, and Pro at $29 a month checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, or subscribe to Vercel's own status page at www.vercel-status.com.
What should I do when Vercel goes down? The full playbook is on this page.
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"Every figure we publish comes from the same 2-minute checks that trigger our customers' alerts. We publish the data exactly as we measured it, and anyone is free to cite it."
Sydney Murphy, founder of StatusBird
Cite this data: StatusBird monitoring data, https://statusbird.io/status/vercel, accessed October 08, 2026. See the methodology for how these numbers are measured.
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