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AssemblyAI incident history

5 reports published by AssemblyAI in the last 30 days

When AssemblyAI breaks, it is typically resolved in 33m — median across 4 resolved incidents over 90 days.

September 13, 2026

Elevated turnaround times for async transcription

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  1. resolvedSep 13 · 23:30 UTC

    Resolved: Between 23:30 and 23:37 UTC on September 13, 2026, async transcription requests experienced elevated turnaround times due to an unexpected spike in processing load. We scaled out additional capacity and turnaround times returned to normal levels. Requests submitted during this window were processed, with some taking longer than usual to complete.

Reported by AssemblyAI on their status page.

August 25, 2026

Increased latency for Universal 3.5 Pro Realtime model

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  1. resolvedAug 25 · 15:01 UTC

    This incident has been resolved. From 14:15-14:45 UTC customers experienced increased latency when using our Universal 3.5 Pro Realtime model on the US endpoint. The EU endpoint was not affected. Sessions continued to function during this time without any errors.

Reported by AssemblyAI on their status page.

August 20, 2026

Async Transcription Service Issues

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  1. resolvedAug 20 · 15:10 UTC

    This incident has been resolved. Between approximately 13:40 and 14:40 UTC, asynchronous transcription requests on our US endpoint experienced elevated latency and errors. Processing times and error rates have returned to normal ranges and the backlog has cleared.

Reported by AssemblyAI on their status page.

August 19, 2026

EU endpoint session failures on Universal 3.5 Pro Realtime

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  1. resolvedAug 19 · 13:24 UTC

    This incident has been resolved. From 13:00–13:12 UTC, users creating new streaming sessions using the EU endpoint were receiving a 3005 close code.

Reported by AssemblyAI on their status page.

August 18, 2026

Elevated processing times for Universal-3 Pro and Universal-3.5 Pro async transcription

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  1. resolvedAug 18 · 20:12 UTC

    This incident has been resolved. Processing times for pre-recorded transcription requests using Universal-3 Pro and Universal-3.5 Pro have returned to normal ranges and the backlog has cleared.

Reported by AssemblyAI on their status page.