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Grok outage January 21, 2026

Models unavailable

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

Grok recorded a major-impact incident affecting API (us-east-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 APIT+0
  2. January 21, 2026, 11:40 UTCA preliminary fix is being deployedT+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 2 of 22 recorded in January 2026, totalling 58 h 43 min of reported disruption across all Grok components that month. API (us-east-1.api.x.ai) was affected by 1 other recorded incident in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching API (us-east-1.api.x.ai) started on January 14, 2026. 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 .