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Is PayPal down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached www.paypal.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 14h 51m.
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Checking www.paypal.com right now
A fresh check, started when you opened this page - each probe runs its own independent DNS, TCP, TLS and HTTP request. Anonymous runs sample the network; a signed-in account checks from more locations.
How PayPal has behaved
Every figure here comes from HostTracker's own checks of www.paypal.com, not from the vendor's status page.
Response time
658ms avg · 745ms peak
What we check
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HTTP645 ms average, every 10 minutesOK
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Ping20 ms average, every 10 minutesOK
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Page Speed2599 ms average, every 15 minutesOK
90-day uptime
100.000% over 2 measured days · 0 incidents
- Operational
- Degraded
- Down
- No data
Incident history
Last 90 daysNo incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
About PayPal outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
PayPal serves two very different groups that can be affected separately: consumers who send and receive money through the paypal.com site or the mobile app, and the millions of merchants whose checkout pages quietly call PayPal's payment processing infrastructure in the background without a shopper ever visiting paypal.com directly. Because the consumer-facing site and the systems that process a live checkout run on separate infrastructure, one can be slow or unreachable while the other keeps working normally, and the reverse also happens - a shopper who never notices anything wrong at paypal.com can still hit a failed checkout on a merchant's site. Logging in, moving money to a linked bank account, and a card being declined at checkout are further failure points, each with its own likely cause rather than a single shared one.
Common causes of PayPal downtime
Not sure whether it's PayPal or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
Elevated error rates on the checkout processing systems merchants' sites call, which can degrade transactions there while paypal.com itself loads normally
Login and two-factor authentication problems that lock a consumer out of an otherwise healthy account
Bank transfer and card-funding delays that originate at the linked financial institution rather than at PayPal itself
Currency conversion and cross-border payment issues that surface only on international transactions
Risk and fraud-review holds that block or delay one specific transaction without affecting the rest of the account
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests www.paypal.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than PayPal being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.
No - as of the most recent check, www.paypal.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14h 51m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, www.paypal.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14h 51m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, www.paypal.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14h 51m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, www.paypal.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14h 51m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
Not necessarily. A merchant's checkout calls PayPal's payment processing systems in the background, which run separately from the consumer site at paypal.com, so one can have trouble while the other works normally. Trying a different merchant's PayPal checkout is a quick way to tell whether the problem is isolated to one site's integration or affects PayPal more broadly.
Usually not. A payment can sit pending while PayPal completes a routine review, while a bank transfer takes its normal processing time, or while the recipient has not yet accepted the funds. Pending is a normal state for some payment types on its own and does not by itself indicate a service problem. If the app and site are otherwise loading and working normally, a single pending payment is far more likely to resolve on its own than to reflect an outage.
No. A decline is usually a response from the funding source, a linked bank account or card, or a risk check on that specific transaction, not a sign that PayPal itself is unavailable. It happens while the rest of the app or site continues to work normally. A genuine PayPal outage looks different: the app or site fails to load, or actions fail broadly across accounts rather than for a single payment.
Login problems can come from either side. A forgotten password, an expired session, or a two-factor code issue is common and account-specific, while a broader login outage would affect many users signing in at the same time. Confirming that paypal.com or the app is reachable at all is the first useful signal, since a login failure with everything else loading normally points at the account rather than the service.
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