Is Stripe down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Stripe right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Stripe continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are checkout or payment, API errors, webhooks not firing, 5xx error pages, website / app down, can't log in and slow or laggy. Those are the options the report button offers for Stripe, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Stripe specifically, a payment crosses Stripe, the card network and the customer's issuing bank, and Stripe controls only the first. Most declines come from the bank, and one issuer or one country can be failing while every other payment on your account succeeds. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Stripe, run a test-mode payment and read the decline code in the dashboard. Test mode succeeding while live payments decline points at the card networks or issuers rather than Stripe. One card failing on your site but working elsewhere points at your integration. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Stripe's side. Specifically: do not retry a failed charge repeatedly. Repeated attempts on the same card trip the issuer's fraud rules and block your customer for far longer than the incident lasts. If webhooks are delayed, fulfil from the dashboard, because the money may already have been taken. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Stripe publishes a machine-readable status feed, so our first check reads it directly and reports what Stripe itself says. If that feed is unreachable we fall back to a direct HTTP probe, then an ICMP ping, then reports from visitors. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at status.stripe.com, and it is linked further up this page. That is Stripe's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Stripe or stripe.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Stripe's own support, not us.