Is Gemini Down? How to Check Status and Troubleshoot Issues
Learn how to check if Google Gemini is down, distinguish between outages and rate limits, and find alternative AI tools when Gemini isn't responding.
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You can check if Gemini is working in two places: our Gemini status monitor, which reads Google’s service messages every few minutes and maintains an outage archive, and the official Google Workspace Status Dashboard, where Gemini has its own entry. Google publishes incidents for its services in the status dashboard data feed; the widget below reads Gemini entries from it every five minutes. Below that, you’ll find a list of things we check before concluding there’s an actual outage.
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Three Situations That Aren’t Gemini Outages
“Limit reached” on the free plan means you’ve hit the daily limit for the advanced model, images, or Deep Research; it resets after a few hours, and paid Google AI plans raise these limits (pricing details in our Gemini AI article). Missing features (like video generation or Live mode) are usually regional or account age restrictions, not bugs; Google enables some features in certain countries with delays. Gemini button not responding on your phone is most often an assistant setting issue, which we covered in our article on how to disable Gemini on your phone.
What to Check When Gemini Really Isn’t Responding
Open gemini.google.com in incognito mode: if it works there, an extension or your session is the culprit. Check whether your account is a Workspace account with Gemini disabled by the administrator. Test the same query in Google AI Studio (aistudio.google.com), which uses the same models through a different channel; if it works there, the outage affects the app, not the model. Only when everything fails do we look at Google’s status dashboard and our monitor.
Where to Check for Gemini Outages
Our Gemini status monitor with incident archive; our combined AI status page for all tools; the official Google Workspace Status Dashboard (google.com/appsstatus/dashboard) with a Gemini entry. When Gemini is down and your task can’t wait, check whether ChatGPT is working or whether Claude is working.
See also: Gemini: complete guide - plans, pricing, use cases and tests
Google · Your sourcesQuantslant higher in your Google - one clickAdd to preferred sources →Frequently Asked Questions
Does Gemini have a status page?
Not a separate one. Gemini status is reported on the Google Workspace status dashboard alongside Gmail and Drive; our monitor collects messages from there.
Why does Gemini say “something went wrong”?
Most often because of an overly long conversation, an attachment in an unsupported format, or temporary overload. Starting a new conversation resolves most cases.
Does a Gemini outage mean Google is down?
Usually not. Gemini runs on its own model infrastructure and can be unavailable while Search, Gmail, and Drive work normally.
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