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Increased turnaround times for Async Universal-3 model

Processing times have continued to be in the normal range, so we are now marking this issue as resolved.

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State

Resolved

Started

34 d ago

2026-09-28 17:27 UTC

Lasted

31 min

until 2026-09-28 17:58 UTC

Worst impact

Degraded

Timeline

4 updates
17:2717:3517:4317:5117:58
DegradedUpdate postedTimes in UTC

Identified

17 min 55%

Monitoring

14 min 45%

Updates

Times in UTC

As posted by AssemblyAI

Resolved2026-09-28 17:58 UTC

Processing times have continued to be in the normal range, so we are now marking this issue as resolved.

Monitoring2026-09-28 17:44 UTC

We have continued to work to resolve this issue and are now seeing processing times return to the normal ranges, but we are continuing to monitor to ensure good performance.

Identified2026-09-28 17:38 UTC

We are still working to fully resolve the issue, but we are seeing improvement in turnaround times for the Universal-3 Pro models.

Identified2026-09-28 17:27 UTC

We are currently experiencing issues that are resulting in longer-than-usual processing times for Async STT requests using our Universal-3 models. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and will provide further updates as soon as we can.

Affected components

2
Asynchronous APIAPIs - Asynchronous API

AssemblyAI in the last 90 days

Full history
90 days agoToday

Incidents in 90 days

13

Days with an incident

10

Median duration

31 min

This incident

About the median

How long each incident lasted, on the day it started. The outlined bar is this incident.

1 h 18 min
median 31 min
90 days agoToday

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This incident has been resolved. Between approximately 15:05 and 15:45 UTC, async transcription requests using Universal-3 Pro on our EU endpoint took longer than usual to complete, and some requests failed. Processing times have returned to normal ranges and any requests that failed during this window can be safely resubmitted.

Resolvedresolved 26 d ago

AssemblyAI·Increased Processing Times and Errors on US Endpoint for Universal-3.5 Pro Async model

This incident has been resolved. Between approximately 1:35p and 2:20p UTC, async transcription requests using Universal-3.5 Pro on our US endpoint took longer than usual to complete, and some requests failed. Processing times have returned to normal ranges and any requests that failed during this window can be safely resubmitted.

Resolvedresolved 26 d ago

AssemblyAI·Rejected Sessions on US Endpoint for Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime Model

From 10:30a - 12:30a UTC users experienced rejected connections when connecting to our Realtime Universal-3.6 Pro model on our US endpoint. Users received a 3005 Session Cancelled error message on connection. This issue has been resolved and the Realtime US endpoint for Universal-3.6 Pro is functioning normally. The EU Realtime endpoint was not affected.

Resolvedresolved 26 d ago

AssemblyAI·Increased processing times and errors for Universal-3.5 Pro on the EU async endpoint

This incident has been resolved. Between approximately 08:20 and 10:45 UTC, asynchronous transcription requests using Universal-3 Pro and Universal-3.5 Pro on our EU endpoint took longer than usual to complete, and some requests failed. Processing times have returned to normal ranges. Any requests that failed during this window can be safely resubmitted.

Resolvedresolved 27 d ago

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