Is Paystack API Down? Check current status
Check if Paystack API is down, official outages, user-reported issues, and outages map.
Current Paystack API status
Paystack API is working normally
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Paystack API service health. Issues reported in the last 24 hours
Check the number of user-reported issues over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem. We only consider an issue widespread if there are multiple reports within a short timeframe.
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Paystack API recent outages and downtime history
IsDown has tracked 11 incidents for Paystack API since started monitoring Paystack status in June 2021. We collect data from 4522+ services, and normalize the data to give you a clear picture of the impact of the outage. It will show official Paystack API outages and also issues that we're started by a spike in crowdsource reports.
| Date | Incident | Duration |
|---|---|---|
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Sep 19, 2025
07:01 AM EDT
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Minor
We are experiencing a downtime with the Central Switch in Nigeria.
As a result, you may experien...
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about 6 hours |
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Jun 18, 2025
08:41 AM EDT
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Minor
Please note that we are aware of an increase in error responses across a host of Paystack product...
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about 1 hour |
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May 28, 2024
05:15 AM EDT
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Major
We are currently seeing intermittent failures on our public API. We are investigating the issue.
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about 10 hours |
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May 06, 2024
11:54 AM EDT
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Minor
We are currently investigating an issue preventing subaccounts from being created via the API. Us...
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15 days |
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Mar 01, 2024
06:04 AM EST
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Major
We are investigating an issue that is currently affecting requests to our API.
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about 4 hours |
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Jul 31, 2023
07:25 AM EDT
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Minor
Bank account verification requests in South Africa are failing at the moment. Our 3rd party partn...
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about 22 hours |
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May 18, 2023
07:09 AM EDT
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Major
Please note we have parts of our platform in a degraded state causing instability on some of our ...
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about 4 hours |
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Apr 25, 2023
07:22 AM EDT
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Major
We are currently investigating an incident impacting multiple services including the dashboard an...
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about 3 hours |
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Dec 20, 2022
08:30 PM EST
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Minor
We are currrently a downtime on our public API. We have identfied the problem and are working to ...
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about 3 hours |
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Dec 06, 2022
07:14 AM EST
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Minor
We are currently seeing an increase in latency for processing transactions. We are investigating ...
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about 1 hour |
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User comments about Paystack API status
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2 incidents in 2025
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