Is Venmo down?
venmo.com · Banking & payments · official status page
Venmo has recorded 100.0% uptime over the last 5 days, with no outage. It answers our checks in 202 ms on average.
No problems detected
Venmo answered our last automated check normally, 11 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.
Venmo 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 Venmo is not working for you, tell us and the chart starts here.
Response time from our automated checks
The last 24 checks of https://venmo.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 Venmo?
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 Venmo outages
Venmo is operated by PayPal and shares parts of its infrastructure, so the two sometimes have trouble together. Its outages are socially awkward rather than catastrophic - A payment that will not send at a restaurant table is a very visible failure.
The pieces that separate are sign-in, the social feed, sending and requesting money, instant transfers to a bank card, and the Venmo debit card. Instant transfer failures are the most common and often reflect the card network rather than Venmo. A payment that shows as pending for an extended period during an incident is usually queued rather than lost, and re-sending is the main cause of accidental duplicate payments. Because Venmo holds a balance, customers treat it as a bank account, but funds are only FDIC-insured under specific conditions. Status is reported on PayPal's status page.
What to do if Venmo is not working for you
Is it them or you?
Our last check reached venmo.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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Venmo measured against its peers
How it compares with other banking & payments services
Over the last 30 days Venmo ranks 8 of 10 banking & payments services we monitor, measured on recorded uptime. The category averages 100.0%, and Venmo sits at 100.0%. The steadiest in this group is PayPal.
On speed, Venmo answers our checks in about 202 ms against a category average of 283 ms - Faster 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 131 ms and the slowest 5142 ms, against a 30-day average of 202 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
- 52.84.150.50 and 3 others
- Server
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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.
Venmo status: Common questions
Is Venmo down right now?
Venmo 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 Venmo 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 Venmo?
Venmo has been reachable for 100.0% of the last 5 days we have measured, with 0 seconds of recorded downtime.
Does Venmo have an official status page?
Yes - Venmo 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.
Venmo discussion
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