Is PayPal down?
Vendor reports no incidentWhat PayPal reports
PayPal reports no incident on its status page.
As of the last successful poll, 2026-11-05 15:11 UTC.
Our regional reading
This is our own reading from outside, shown beside the vendor's statement. It is not counted as a separate outage.
Checks passingchecked moments ago
Our checks of PayPal pass from all 10 regions we check.
As of Nov 5, 2026, 3:25 PM UTC, RealUptime's checks of PayPal passed in all 10 regions that returned a reading.
PayPal publishes no status feed we can read, so the only reading here is our check reading on the left.
PayPal response time, by region
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What we measured, function by function
PayPal answers on more than one surface, and they can fail apart. Each row is one surface, checked from the same regions. The verdict above follows the auth row, because that is the surface we treat as this service's own; a failure on any other row is a partial outage, not a full one.
- WebUS-East: Checks passingUS-West: Checks passingEurope: Checks passingAsia-Pacific: Checks passingUS-Central: Checks passingCanada: Checks passingUK: Checks passingSoutheast Asia: Checks passingAustralia: Checks passingSouth America: Checks passing
- AuthprimaryUS-East: Checks passingUS-West: Checks passingEurope: Checks passingAsia-Pacific: Checks passingUS-Central: Checks passingCanada: Checks passingUK: Checks passingSoutheast Asia: Checks passingAustralia: Checks passingSouth America: Checks passing
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What our checks show, and what people reported
- North AmericaChecks passingUS-East, US-West, US-Central, Canada
- US-EastChecks passinglatency: 303msstatus code: 401checked: Nov 5, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur US-East probes reach PayPal normally. We do not have enough reports from US-East to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- US-WestChecks passinglatency: 1236msstatus code: 401checked: Nov 5, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur US-West probes reach PayPal normally. We do not have enough reports from US-West to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- US-CentralChecks passinglatency: 561msstatus code: 401checked: Nov 5, 2026, 3:22 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur US-Central probes reach PayPal normally. We do not have enough reports from US-Central to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- CanadaChecks passinglatency: 483msstatus code: 401checked: Nov 5, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur Canada probes reach PayPal normally. We do not have enough reports from Canada to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- South AmericaChecks passinglatency: 1839msstatus code: 401checked: Nov 5, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur South America probes reach PayPal normally. We do not have enough reports from South America to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- EuropeChecks passingEurope, UK
- EuropeChecks passinglatency: 1002msstatus code: 401checked: Nov 5, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur Europe probes reach PayPal normally. We do not have enough reports from Europe to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- UKChecks passinglatency: 711msstatus code: 401checked: Nov 5, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur UK probes reach PayPal normally. We do not have enough reports from UK to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- Asia PacificChecks passingAsia-Pacific, Southeast Asia, Australia
- Asia-PacificChecks passinglatency: 1537msstatus code: 401checked: Nov 5, 2026, 3:20 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur Asia-Pacific probes reach PayPal normally. We do not have enough reports from Asia-Pacific to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- Southeast AsiaChecks passinglatency: 1316msstatus code: 401checked: Nov 5, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur Southeast Asia probes reach PayPal normally. We do not have enough reports from Southeast Asia to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- AustraliaChecks passinglatency: 1503msstatus code: 401checked: Nov 5, 2026, 3:25 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur Australia probes reach PayPal normally. We do not have enough reports from Australia to say anything about what people there are seeing.
Somewhere else or not sure: 0 people in the last 5 minutes
These are unverified reports from people using PayPal, counted separately from what our own probes measure. Anyone can file one, no account is needed, and the region on a report is chosen by the person filing it. We never open, extend or close an outage in our record based on report volume: only our own measurements do that. We have not received any reports for PayPal yet, which is not evidence that nothing is wrong.
Recent probe events
check entries are our own probes' readings; declared entries are the vendor's. How this check works
We have been measuring PayPal since August 8, 2026. We show nothing from before that date, and we never add an outage we did not observe ourselves, from any source.
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Full check history for PayPal: 90 days of check results by region, month-by-month uptime by our checks, and every probe event on record.
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Live, from this page's own readings.[](https://realuptime.io/outages/paypal)<a href="https://realuptime.io/outages/paypal"><img src="https://realuptime.io/outages/paypal/badge.svg?days=30" alt="PayPal uptime by RealUptime's checks" height="20"></a>Share of checks passed over 30 days; the window is printed on it. If our readings go stale it says stale, and if we have no readings it says so and shows no color. How the badge works.
To cite this page: RealUptime, "Is PayPal down?", https://realuptime.io/outages/paypal. The readings change with every check, so give the date you read them.
What we check
What our check can and cannot see
A pass means the service's servers answered with the sign-in refusal they give any request that is not signed in. It does not show that sign-in works or that anything behind the sign-in wall responds.
Host checked: api-m.paypal.com