Payments

Is PayPal down?

Live PayPal status from PayPal's official status page, checked every 5 minutes by StatusDrop. Includes recent outages and daily uptime.

Current PayPal status

Right now

Operational

PayPal is operational (not down) as of .

uptime over 64 days
100%
uptime over 64 days
issues in the last 74 h
0
issues in the last 74 h
between checks
5 min
between checks

Daily uptime

PayPal uptime, last 90 days

100% over 64 days with data

90 days agoToday
OperationalDegradedPartial outageMajor outageNo data

Uptime counts degraded performance as up and partial or major outages as down. Checks where the status page could not be read are excluded.

Recent issues

Recent PayPal outages and incidents

No PayPal outages detected in the last 74 hours of checks.

Based on StatusDrop's own checks of www.paypal-status.com. Times are approximate to the 5-minute check interval. For incident details, see the official status page.

Method

How StatusDrop checks PayPal

Every 5 minutes StatusDrop reads PayPal's official status page at www.paypal-status.com and records the overall status. When PayPal reports a problem, it shows up here and in every StatusDrop stack that depends on PayPal.

This page reflects what PayPal publicly reports. If PayPal looks operational but you still see errors, the issue may be specific to your region, account or integration: check your own logs and PayPal's support channels.

Quick answers

PayPal status, in short

Is PayPal down right now?
PayPal is operational (not down) as of 2026-11-02T21:54:12.000Z.
What is PayPal's uptime?
PayPal had 100% uptime over the last 64 days with data, based on StatusDrop checks of its official status page.
When was PayPal's last outage?
StatusDrop has not detected a PayPal outage in its recent checks.

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