Who is down right now

20 down now · 248 this week

Affirm outage history and postmortems

Apps and SaaS · San Francisco, US · 3 incidents in 90 days · 100% implied uptime · last 6d ago

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History

MinorNov 2, 19:18 UTC
Identified Issue Affecting Loan Applications in UKlasted 1h 26m
MinorSep 29, 19:26 UTC
Affirm Mobile Application Payment Method Degradation for CA Userslasted 1h 26m
MinorAug 12, 21:12 UTC
Affirm Services Degradationlasted 48m
MinorJun 22, 14:36 UTC
Checkout Degradationlasted 29m
MinorJun 17, 23:22 UTC
Sandbox checkout confirm_loan failureslasted 1h 22m
MajorJun 10, 15:06 UTC
CA Checkout Degradationlasted 52m
MinorJun 4, 08:01 UTC
Checkout Degradationlasted 1h 35m
MajorJun 3, 19:00 UTC
Degradation on Sandbox APIslasted 1h 49m
NoticeMay 8, 00:12 UTC
Elevated latency across our serviceslasted 27h 8m
MinorApr 18, 02:15 UTC
US SMS Authentication Service Degradedlasted 14h 17m
MinorMar 4, 23:36 UTC
Checkout Degradation in US/CAlasted 3h 35m
NoticeFeb 12, 18:20 UTC
Degradation in Affirm UK Checkoutlasted 1h 23m
MinorJan 29, 17:35 UTC
Delay in Shopify Order Status Updateslasted 41m
CriticalJan 22, 15:40 UTC
Affirm US Checkout Availability Degradationlasted 52m
MinorJan 14, 17:48 UTC
Authentication Disruption in the USlasted 9h 58m
CriticalJan 7, 07:45 UTC
Degradation in Affirm Checkoutlasted 6m
NoticeDec 11, 2025, 18:30 UTC
Degradation in Affirm UK Checkoutlasted 23h 52m
MajorDec 5, 2025, 09:04 UTC
Degradation in Affirm Checkout Servicelasted 50m
MinorDec 4, 2025, 02:19 UTC
Increase in Latency Across Affirm APIslasted 3h 1m
MinorDec 3, 2025, 18:18 UTC
Increase in Latency Across Affirm APIslasted 1h 44m
MinorNov 18, 2025, 17:11 UTC
latencylasted 20m
NoticeNov 18, 2025, 14:07 UTC
Impact to all trafficlasted 1h 21m
MinorNov 10, 2025, 17:11 UTC
Increased Latency in USlasted 16m
MinorOct 20, 2025, 16:39 UTC
Checkout service degradationlasted 27h 21m
CriticalOct 20, 2025, 07:02 UTC
Impact to all trafficlasted 2h 55m
MinorOct 15, 2025, 14:08 UTC
Merchant Portal Sign-in Degradationlasted 4h 29m
NoticeSep 29, 2025, 16:02 UTC
Temporary Conversion Rate Impact via external Major US Mobile Service outagelasted 4h 14m
MinorAug 27, 2025, 20:29 UTC
Merchant Dashboard Login Degradationlasted 26h 22m
MinorAug 21, 2025, 18:06 UTC
Affirm API endpoints may be affected by latency degradation.lasted 1h 50m
NoticeJul 3, 2025, 01:25 UTC
Increased latency across multiple endpiontslasted 46mDatabase
MajorJun 17, 2025, 13:46 UTC
Merchant Portal Outagelasted 3h 41m
CriticalJun 12, 2025, 18:17 UTC
US/CA Checkout Degradationlasted 2h 48m
MajorApr 9, 2025, 18:55 UTC
Affirm Services Impactedlasted 25h 57m
MajorFeb 25, 2025, 16:13 UTC
Elevated Errors for Affirm Loan Servicelasted 29m
MinorJan 30, 2025, 19:21 UTC
Increased Latency in USlasted 1h 43m
MinorJan 9, 2025, 20:03 UTC
US Sandbox Checkout Degradedlasted 14d 1h
MinorJan 7, 2025, 18:20 UTC
Sandbox Checkout Degradedlasted 7h 46m
MajorDec 9, 2024, 22:54 UTC
Elevated Errors for Affirm Loan Servicelasted 18m
MinorNov 29, 2024, 19:03 UTC
Degraded Performance across Affirm US Checkout Servicelasted 1h
CriticalNov 25, 2024, 20:28 UTC
Increased Errors across Affirm Serviceslasted 8h 24mDatabase
About Affirm

Affirm Holdings, Inc. is an American financial technology company and a point-of-sale lender. Founded in 2012 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, it is the largest U.S. based buy now, pay later (BNPL) financier.

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

Apps and SaaS median
42m

Affirm: 3m weighted downtime in range, category median 42m.

3 incidents, 0 major or critical, 3h 40m of incident time (0m major or critical, 3h 40m partial), longest 1h 26m, implied uptime 100%, between Aug 12, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

Stated causes

50 incidents with no cause stated.

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Questions

Is Affirm down right now?

Check Affirm's own status page at https://status.affirm.com for the live state. This page shows Affirm's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-11-02: "Identified Issue Affecting Loan Applications in UK".

How often does Affirm have outages?

Affirm posted 3 incidents in the last 90 days and 23 in the last year, 0 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 1h 26m.

When was Affirm's last major outage?

2026-06-10: "CA Checkout Degradation", lasting 52m.

What usually causes Affirm incidents?

Where Affirm explained the cause, the most common was database (2 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.