Is Vapi AI down right now?

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What should I use if Vapi AI is down?

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Is Vapi AI Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of vapi.ai plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-10-19

How to check right now

Step 1 -- Load the site

Open vapi.ai→

The simplest check. If it loads and you can log in, the tool is up for you.

Step 2 -- Crowdsourced reports

DownDetector: Vapi AI→

User-reported outages aggregated across regions. Good signal for partial or regional outages.

Step 3 -- Live social

Search X for “Vapi AIdown” →

Live tweets from other users. Fastest signal for a fresh outage -- often beats status pages by 10-20 minutes.

Step 4 -- Official status page

Find Vapi AI's status page →

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Known issues we've tracked

PRICING CHECK (2026-10-19): vapi.ai/pricing now sells **Success Packages** on top of the unchanged $0.05/min Vapi hosting fee: **By Usage** ($0 to start, $5 free credits, 4 concurrent calls, community support), **Core $29/month** (10 concurrent calls, 30-day retention, ZDR, 2-business-day email SLA), **Pro at 10% of the hosting fee with a $999/month minimum** (30 concurrent calls, 180-day retention, RBAC, Slack support, 99% uptime SLA) and **Premier** (custom; 1-hour P0 SLA, 99.9% uptime, SSO, dedicated SIP). Add-ons: HIPAA compliance $2,000/month, extra concurrency $10 per line per month, extra organizations $20 each. Models are passed through at cost; Vapi telephony/SIP, WebSockets and Daily WebRTC transport are free, Twilio $0.008-$0.014/min. Vapi's own calculator estimates **$82-$129 for 1,000 minutes** (Deepgram + OpenAI + ElevenLabs), lower than the $0.15-$0.35/min third-party estimate this page has cited.

2026-10-19•vapi.ai/pricing

Working assistants randomly break after Vapi platform updates or upstream model changes, requiring immediate developer attention

2026-01•Trustpilot, Reddit

Users report inability to delete accounts or remove credit card information from the platform

2025-12•Trustpilot

Real per-minute costs are 3-4x higher than the advertised $0.05/min platform fee when all provider costs are included

2026-02•Reddit, Dograh AI review

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

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About Vapi AI

Tier C (6.3/10). Developer platform for building and deploying AI voice agents with modular provider support

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