Is PayPal down?
paypal.com · Banking & payments · official status page
PayPal has recorded 100.0% uptime over the last 5 days, with no outage. It answers our checks in 655 ms on average.
No problems detected
PayPal answered our last automated check normally, 12 minutes ago. If it is not working for you, the problem is most likely local - Your connection, your DNS resolver, a cached page, or an extension.
PayPal problem reports in the last 24 hours
Counted in 15-minute buckets from reports submitted on this site. This is a user signal - A tall bar means people are complaining, not that our check failed.
No reports in the last 24 hours.
If PayPal is not working for you, tell us and the chart starts here.
Response time from our automated checks
The last 24 checks of https://www.paypal.com/ from our network. Bar height is the response time; the tallest bar is the slowest.
- Answered normally
- Slow to answer
- No usable answer
Having a problem with PayPal?
Tell us what is not working. Reports go straight onto the 24-hour chart above and help other people see a problem before any company admits to one. 0 reports in the last 24 hours.
About PayPal outages
PayPal outages have two very different audiences. Shoppers notice when the PayPal button on a merchant's checkout fails to open or hangs on the confirmation step. Merchants and developers notice when the API stops responding, which silently breaks checkout on thousands of stores that show only a generic payment error.
The components that fail independently are consumer login, the checkout flow, balance and transfers, business payouts, and the developer API. A transaction that appears to fail at the moment of payment is the worst case because money movement and merchant notification can diverge; PayPal's own guidance is to wait rather than retry, since duplicate charges are a common result of impatience during an incident. PayPal publishes a status page at paypal-status.com covering both the consumer product and the developer platform, with regional breakdowns.
What to do if PayPal is not working for you
Is it them or you?
Our last check reached paypal.com normally, from a different network, resolver and route than yours. If it is broken for you, the fault is most likely local or too narrow for a single probe to see. Run the check again now to confirm.
The first thing worth trying
Do not retry a payment that appeared to fail. This is the single most important rule in this category. A timeout is not a decline, and duplicate payments are common and slow to reverse.
How banking & payments services typically fail
The app signs in and shows a balance, but payments decline or hang. Balances may be stale rather than wrong. Card payments in shops frequently keep working while the app does not, because they take a different path entirely. The rest of the steps, and why this category breaks the way it does, are on our banking & payments status page, with more background in what a 503 actually means.
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PayPal measured against its peers
How it compares with other banking & payments services
Over the last 30 days PayPal ranks 1 of 10 banking & payments services we monitor, measured on recorded uptime. The category averages 100.0%, and PayPal sits at 100.0%. That is the best record in the group.
On speed, PayPal answers our checks in about 655 ms against a category average of 283 ms - Slower than its peers. Response time is not availability, but a service drifting well above its own normal is often the first sign of trouble.
What the last 24 checks looked like
Across the most recent 24 checks, the quickest response was 319 ms and the slowest 3073 ms, against a 30-day average of 655 ms. The chart above plots each one, so a widening spread is visible before it becomes an outage.
All figures are our own measurements, taken every 20 minutes from one network. What that can and cannot see is set out in the methodology, and every banking & payments service is listed on the category page.
The server that answered Mostly hidden
- IP address
- 104.18.7.168 and 1 other
- Server
- Hidden until you sign in
- Powered by
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- Content type
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- Declared size
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- Transport and HSTS
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Five more fields about the server behind paypal.com.
Free, one click with Google, and nothing is posted or shared. We ask because the lookups behind this cost us real requests to other people’s servers.
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Certificate Mostly hidden
- Status
- Valid
- Issued to
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- Valid from
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- Expires
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- Protocol and cipher
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Who issued it, what it covers and exactly when it expires.
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An expired certificate stops browsers loading a site entirely while the server itself stays perfectly healthy, which is why we track it beside the uptime figure. Check it yourself.
PayPal status: Common questions
Is PayPal down right now?
PayPal is up and responding normally. This page is refreshed by an automated check that runs every 20 minutes from an independent network, and by reports from visitors.
Why can I not reach PayPal when you say it is up?
Because an outage can be partial. Our check runs from one network and asks for one page. Your problem may be regional, may affect only the mobile app, or may be local to your connection, DNS resolver or browser cache.
How reliable is PayPal?
PayPal has been reachable for 100.0% of the last 5 days we have measured, with 0 seconds of recorded downtime.
Does PayPal have an official status page?
Yes - PayPal publishes one at https://www.paypal-status.com/. It is the authoritative source for confirmed incidents, though official pages usually update after user reports have already peaked.
PayPal discussion
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