Is Alpaca down right now?
No — Alpaca is up. All systems operational as of Oct 18, 1:18 AM UTC.
Current Status
All Systems Operational
Components
Recent Incidents
3rd Party Outage affecting Market Data
criticalOct 15, 2026 · resolved Oct 15
The incident has been resolved. Connectivity to our market data provider has been restored, and market data (IEX and SIP feeds) is updating normally. Fractional and notional share trading have been re-enabled. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused.
Sandbox Latency
minorOct 10, 2026 · resolved Oct 10
Elevated latency affecting multiple sandbox services has been resolved. Service performance has returned to normal, and monitoring confirms recovery. Production services were not affected. We apologize for the disruption.
Delays in End-of-Day Position Reporting for a Subset of Accounts
noneOct 9, 2026 · resolved Oct 9
All daily EOD sync have been completed. This incident is now resolved.
Brief API Timeouts
noneOct 7, 2026 · resolved Oct 7
From 12:18 PM to 12:28 PM ET, multiple APIs experienced elevated timeouts(5xx error) . The issue is resolved, and we are investigating the root cause.
Order processing delays
minorSep 30, 2026 · resolved Sep 30
This incident has been resolved.
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Alpaca status — frequently asked questions
Is Alpaca down right now?
No — Alpaca is up. All systems operational as of Oct 18, 1:18 AM UTC.
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