Outage in AssemblyAI

Degraded performance for requests using Slam-1

Resolved Minor
October 31, 2025 - Started about 1 month ago - Lasted about 3 hours
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Incident Report

We are currently investigating an issue that is leading to longer-than-usual processing times for pre-recorded audio transcriptions using the Slam-1 model that is resulting in server errors. Requests using the Universal model, which is enabled by default, are not affected by this issue.
Components affected
AssemblyAI Asynchronous API

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED about 1 month ago - at 10/31/2025 01:27PM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING about 1 month ago - at 10/31/2025 11:49AM

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

IDENTIFIED about 1 month ago - at 10/31/2025 10:42AM

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 10/31/2025 10:39AM

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 10/31/2025 10:38AM

We are currently investigating an issue that is leading to longer-than-usual processing times for pre-recorded audio transcriptions using the Slam-1 model that is resulting in server errors. Requests using the Universal model, which is enabled by default, are not affected by this issue.

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