{"slug": "ai-api-uptime-comparison-last-30-days-openai-anthropic-google-and-43-more-from-4", "title": "AI API uptime comparison, last 30 days: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and 43 more, measured from 4 regions", "summary": "An independent uptime tracker measured observed availability for 46 AI API providers from four regions every five minutes between 18 September and 17 October 2026, finding Meta's Llama API (99.986%), Anthropic (99.985%), OpenRouter (99.985%) and Google Gemini (99.983%) most available, with OpenAI at 99.930%. The tracker's operator notes that averages among major providers differ by only hundredths of a percent, while the meaningful gap appears in the worst-performing region, where São Paulo and Tokyo consistently lag. Chinese providers trailed the field, with 01.AI (Yi) at 97.275% overall and 90.650% in its worst region after 10 attributed outages totaling 118 minutes.", "body_md": "**Short answer.** Between 18 September and 17 October 2026, the four most available AI APIs we probe were Meta's Llama API (99.986%), Anthropic (99.985%), OpenRouter (99.985%) and Google Gemini (99.983%). OpenAI was at 99.930%. The spread among the big providers is a few hundredths of a percent; the difference that matters shows up in the **worst region**, not in the average.\n\nThese are observed-availability figures, not SLAs: what an outside client saw, from four data centres, every five minutes.\n\n| # | Provider | 30-day availability | Worst region | Worst-region availability | Attributed outages | \n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 1 | Meta Llama API | 99.986% | São Paulo | 99.954% | 0 | \n| 2 | Anthropic (Claude) | 99.985% | São Paulo | 99.965% | 0 | \n| 3 | OpenRouter | 99.985% | São Paulo | 99.977% | 0 | \n| 4 | Google (Gemini) | 99.983% | São Paulo | 99.977% | 0 | \n| 5 | AI21 | 99.965% | Tokyo | 99.942% | 0 | \n| 6 | Replicate | 99.965% | Germany | 99.942% | 0 | \n| 7 | Baseten | 99.959% | Tokyo | 99.942% | 0 | \n| 8 | Cohere | 99.959% | Tokyo | 99.919% | 0 | \n| 9 | Together AI | 99.959% | Germany | 99.942% | 0 | \n| 10 | Groq | 99.954% | Tokyo | 99.907% | 0 | \n| 11 | Hyperbolic | 99.951% | Tokyo | 99.885% | 0 | \n| 12 | Novita | 99.945% | Germany | 99.872% | 0 | \n| 13 | Fireworks AI | 99.939% | Germany | 99.907% | 0 | \n| 14 | Perplexity | 99.939% | Tokyo | 99.861% | 0 | \n| 15 | Inference.net | 99.934% | Tokyo | 99.885% | 1 (11 min) | \n| 16 | DeepSeek | 99.931% | São Paulo | 99.850% | 0 | \n| 17 | Mistral | 99.931% | Tokyo | 99.827% | 0 | \n| 18 | OpenAI | 99.930% | Tokyo | 99.814% | 0 | \n| 19 | Baidu (ERNIE) | 99.928% | São Paulo | 99.792% | 0 | \n| 20 | xAI (Grok) | 99.922% | Tokyo | 99.815% | 0 | \n| 21 | Reka | 99.919% | Tokyo | 99.815% | 0 | \n| 22 | Cerebras | 99.907% | Tokyo | 99.804% | 2 (6 min) | \n| 23 | Writer | 99.902% | Tokyo | 99.826% | 1 (7 min) | \n| 24 | Sarvam | 99.901% | Germany | 99.849% | 1 (3 min) | \n| 25 | SiliconFlow | 99.893% | São Paulo | 99.746% | 0 | \n| 26 | Nscale | 99.881% | Tokyo | 99.676% | 0 | \n| 27 | Z.ai (GLM) | 99.879% | São Paulo | 99.665% | 0 | \n| 28 | Friendli | 99.867% | Tokyo | 99.723% | 3 (5 min) | \n| 29 | Typesafe ¹ | 99.852% | Tokyo | 99.712% | 1 (3 min) | \n| 30 | Moonshot (Kimi) | 99.850% | Tokyo | 99.792% | 1 (36 min) | \n| 31 | Alibaba (Qwen) | 99.826% | Tokyo | 99.676% | 0 | \n| 32 | Nebius | 99.812% | São Paulo | 99.607% | 0 | \n| 33 | MiniMax | 99.806% | Tokyo | 99.561% | 0 | \n| 34 | Targon | 99.803% | Tokyo | 99.561% | 0 | \n| 35 | DeepInfra | 99.780% | São Paulo | 99.607% | 0 | \n| 36 | Upstage | 99.780% | São Paulo | 99.515% | 0 | \n| 37 | Tencent (Hunyuan) | 99.749% | São Paulo | 99.457% | 0 | \n| 38 | SenseNova | 99.667% | São Paulo | 99.249% | 1 (2 min) | \n| 39 | StepFun | 99.647% | São Paulo | 99.203% | 2 (1 min) | \n| 40 | Aleph Alpha | 99.645% | São Paulo | 99.238% | 4 (22 min) | \n| 41 | Featherless | 99.642% | São Paulo | 99.434% | 2 (4 min) | \n| 42 | SambaNova | 99.535% | Tokyo | 99.260% | 9 (71 min) | \n| 43 | iFlytek | 99.266% | Tokyo | 98.406% | 2 (11 min) | \n| 44 | ByteDance (Doubao) | 99.260% | São Paulo | 98.891% | 11 (91 min) | \n| 45 | Baichuan | 99.243% | Tokyo | 98.394% | 0 | \n| 46 | 01.AI (Yi) | 97.275% | Tokyo | 90.650% | 10 (118 min) | \n\n¹ Typesafe was added to the probes on 27 September: 21 days of data instead of 30.\n\n`pip install llmlatency`\n*Disclosure: I run llmlatency.dev, the independent tracker these numbers come from. No provider pays for placement, and nothing on the ranking is affiliate-sorted.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-api-uptime-comparison-last-30-days-openai-anthropic-google-and-43-more-from-4", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/max_bob/ai-api-uptime-comparison-last-30-days-openai-anthropic-google-and-43-more-measured-from-4-4m41", "published_at": "2026-10-18 10:04:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-18 10:13:43.097758+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-tools", "mlops", "ai-products"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Google", "Meta", "OpenRouter", "llmlatency.dev", "01.AI", "ByteDance"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-api-uptime-comparison-last-30-days-openai-anthropic-google-and-43-more-from-4", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-api-uptime-comparison-last-30-days-openai-anthropic-google-and-43-more-from-4.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-api-uptime-comparison-last-30-days-openai-anthropic-google-and-43-more-from-4.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-api-uptime-comparison-last-30-days-openai-anthropic-google-and-43-more-from-4.jsonld"}}