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Grok outage January 21, 2026

Models unavailable

Grok API (eu-west-1.api.x.ai) was down for 1 h 43 min on January 21, 2026.

Grok recorded a major-impact incident affecting API (eu-west-1.api.x.ai) on January 21, 2026. It ran for 1 h 43 min — 40 min shorter than the archive median of 2 h 23 min.

ASK
Started
January 21, 2026, 11:19 UTC
Resolved
January 21, 2026, 13:02 UTC
Duration
1 h 43 min
Impact
Major

What was affected?

How long did it last?

  1. January 21, 2026, 11:19 UTCModels are unavailable on the API.T+0
  2. January 21, 2026, 11:40 UTCA preliminary fix is being deployed.T+21 min
  3. January 21, 2026, 11:58 UTCFix in progressT+39 min
  4. January 21, 2026, 12:13 UTCFix in progressT+54 min
  5. January 21, 2026, 12:21 UTCFix in progressT+1 h 2 min
  6. January 21, 2026, 12:36 UTCFix in progressT+1 h 17 min
  7. January 21, 2026, 12:56 UTCFix in progressT+1 h 37 min
  8. January 21, 2026, 13:02 UTCIncident resolvedT+1 h 43 min

Has this happened before?

This was incident 3 of 22 recorded in January 2026, totalling 58 h 43 min of reported disruption across all Grok components that month. API (eu-west-1.api.x.ai) had no other recorded incident in the 30 days before this one started. Across the 64 resolved incidents in the archive, the median duration is 2 h 23 min; this one lasted 1 h 43 min. These comparisons are drawn from our archive, which starts on January 17, 2025. See the full outage history.

Summarized by Grok Tracker from Grok Status. Last verified .