Is placehold.co down right now?

No — placehold.co answered our last plain GET with HTTP 200 in 6 ms (checked 2026-09-11T19:00:23Z). We check placehold.co with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 100%.

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Is placehold.co down?

UP right now — answered HTTP 200 in 6 ms.

Last checked 2026-09-11T19:00:23Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 100% · 7d: 100% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

What we check: GET https://placehold.co/150 — 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 placehold.co 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 placehold.co migration guide → (it also says when placehold.co 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 placehold.co? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

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<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/placehold-co"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/placehold-co/badge.svg" alt="placehold.co 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 placehold.co 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.

Or from a terminal / CI script:

curl -X POST https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/status/watch \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"service": "placehold-co", "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
2026-09-11T19:00:23Z	OK 200	6 ms
2026-09-11T19:00:16Z	OK 200	21 ms
2026-09-11T18:00:29Z	OK 200	19 ms
2026-09-11T17:00:35Z	OK 200	13 ms
2026-09-11T16:00:27Z	OK 200	53 ms
2026-09-11T15:13:38Z	OK 200	979 ms
2026-09-11T14:01:01Z	OK 200	40 ms
2026-09-11T12:00:47Z	OK 200	80 ms
2026-09-11T11:00:47Z	OK 200	87 ms
2026-09-11T10:00:47Z	OK 200	10 ms
2026-09-11T09:00:47Z	OK 200	10 ms
2026-09-11T08:00:47Z	OK 200	20 ms
2026-09-11T07:00:47Z	OK 200	13 ms
2026-09-11T06:01:10Z	OK 200	48 ms
2026-09-11T05:01:09Z	OK 200	43 ms
2026-09-11T04:01:11Z	OK 200	44 ms
2026-09-11T03:01:10Z	OK 200	24 ms
2026-09-11T02:01:06Z	OK 200	78 ms
2026-09-11T01:01:07Z	OK 200	42 ms
2026-09-11T00:01:09Z	OK 200	39 ms
2026-09-10T23:01:08Z	OK 200	39 ms
2026-09-10T22:01:07Z	OK 200	34 ms
2026-09-10T21:00:28Z	OK 200	9 ms
2026-09-10T20:00:30Z	OK 200	14 ms
2026-09-10T19:00:36Z	OK 200	24 ms
2026-09-10T18:00:43Z	OK 200	32 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.