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Is Lorem Picsum (picsum.photos) down?

UP right now — answered HTTP 200 in 235 ms.

Last checked 2026-09-12T10:00:32Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 100% · 7d: 100% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

What we check: GET https://picsum.photos/200 — a plain, keyless request from Cloudflare's network with an honest bot UA, exactly what a tutorial curl or an <img> tag experiences. OK = HTTP 2xx/3xx within 8s. No retries, no cookies, no API keys.

Need a placeholder image that loads?

If picsum.photos is failing (or you're tired of finding out mid-demo), Mockbird gives you a placeholder image URL that renders (SVG: any size, colors, text, round avatars) — free, no signup:

https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/m/demo/img/300x200?text=Hello

Read the honest Lorem Picsum (picsum.photos) migration guide → (it also says when Lorem Picsum (picsum.photos) is the better tool) or create your own mock API in one click.

README badge

Does your project's test suite or tutorial depend on picsum.photos? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

<!-- Markdown -->
[![picsum.photos status](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/picsum/badge.svg)](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/picsum)

<!-- HTML -->
<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/picsum"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/picsum/badge.svg" alt="picsum.photos status"></a>

Green = answering plain GETs, red = network-dead, amber = answering but with an error status. Every tracked service has one; there's also a summary badge for all 71.

Get pinged when it goes down

Subscribe any webhook URL — no account needed. One message when picsum.photos goes down, one when it recovers (debounced: two consecutive hourly checks must agree, so a single blip never fires). Slack and Discord incoming-webhook URLs get a formatted message; anything else gets an HMAC-signed JSON POST.

Subscribe

Or from a terminal / CI script:

curl -X POST https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/status/watch \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"service": "picsum", "url": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T000/B000/XXXX"}'

Use "service": "*" to watch all 71 tracked services at once. The response includes an unsubscribe curl; 5 consecutive failed deliveries auto-unsubscribe. No webhook? Omit "url" to get a pollable subscription instead — GET the returned poll URL anytime for the transitions since your last poll. Full API details →

The same checker can watch your own URL: POST /api/status/monitor {"url": "https://api.example.com/health", "notify": "<webhook>"} — every 30 minutes, alert on down + recovery, free, no account. Monitor API →

Recent checks

Checked at (UTC)	Result	Time
2026-09-12T10:00:32Z	OK 200	235 ms
2026-09-12T10:00:24Z	OK 200	177 ms
2026-09-12T09:00:23Z	OK 200	254 ms
2026-09-12T09:00:21Z	OK 200	258 ms
2026-09-12T08:00:23Z	OK 200	176 ms
2026-09-12T08:00:10Z	OK 200	247 ms
2026-09-12T07:00:24Z	OK 200	187 ms
2026-09-12T07:00:16Z	OK 200	267 ms
2026-09-12T06:00:23Z	OK 200	342 ms
2026-09-12T06:00:22Z	OK 200	242 ms
2026-09-12T05:00:25Z	OK 200	226 ms
2026-09-12T05:00:23Z	OK 200	178 ms
2026-09-12T04:00:23Z	OK 200	467 ms
2026-09-12T04:00:06Z	OK 200	234 ms
2026-09-12T03:00:23Z	OK 200	460 ms
2026-09-12T03:00:17Z	OK 200	228 ms
2026-09-12T02:00:27Z	OK 200	244 ms
2026-09-12T02:00:23Z	OK 200	77 ms
2026-09-12T01:00:22Z	OK 200	98 ms
2026-09-12T01:00:21Z	OK 200	220 ms
2026-09-12T00:00:43Z	OK 200	213 ms
2026-09-12T00:00:23Z	OK 200	92 ms
2026-09-11T23:00:41Z	OK 200	225 ms
2026-09-11T23:00:24Z	OK 200	702 ms
2026-09-11T22:00:42Z	OK 200	214 ms
2026-09-11T22:00:23Z	OK 200	242 ms
2026-09-11T21:00:46Z	OK 200	249 ms
2026-09-11T21:00:23Z	OK 200	250 ms
2026-09-11T20:00:47Z	OK 200	231 ms
2026-09-11T20:00:24Z	OK 200	465 ms

Bias disclosure: this page is run by Mockbird, a free hosted mock-API service. The status data is real and logged verbatim (pull it yourself), and the linked guides say when the incumbent wins.