Is PokéAPI (pokeapi.co) down right now?

No — PokéAPI (pokeapi.co) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 200 in 9 ms (checked 2026-09-11T20:00:45Z). We check pokeapi.co with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 100%.

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Is PokéAPI (pokeapi.co) down?

UP right now — answered HTTP 200 in 9 ms.

Last checked 2026-09-11T20:00:45Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 100% · 7d: 100% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Context: Well-run and generally reliable. Read-only (no writes) with a fair-use policy — cache aggressively if you build on it.

What we check: GET https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/1 — 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 tutorial API that answers?

If pokeapi.co is failing (or you're tired of finding out mid-demo), Mockbird gives you a seeded, persistent REST API for your tutorial or side project — pick a preset (ecommerce/blog/saas) or import any JSON/CSV as your own dataset; writes persist, CORS on, no signup — free, no signup:

curl https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/m/demo/products/1
# create your own in one click (no terminal): https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/app#new=ecommerce

Read the honest PokéAPI (pokeapi.co) migration guide → (it also says when PokéAPI (pokeapi.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 pokeapi.co? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

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

<!-- HTML -->
<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/pokeapi"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/pokeapi/badge.svg" alt="pokeapi.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 pokeapi.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": "pokeapi", "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
2026-09-11T20:00:45Z	OK 200	9 ms
2026-09-11T20:00:22Z	OK 200	62 ms
2026-09-11T19:00:22Z	OK 200	65 ms
2026-09-11T19:00:14Z	OK 200	22 ms
2026-09-11T18:00:27Z	OK 200	7 ms
2026-09-11T17:00:34Z	OK 200	21 ms
2026-09-11T16:00:25Z	OK 200	16 ms
2026-09-11T15:13:34Z	OK 200	172 ms
2026-09-11T14:00:58Z	OK 200	29 ms
2026-09-11T12:00:45Z	OK 200	73 ms
2026-09-11T11:00:45Z	OK 200	79 ms
2026-09-11T10:00:45Z	OK 200	70 ms
2026-09-11T09:00:45Z	OK 200	79 ms
2026-09-11T08:00:45Z	OK 200	61 ms
2026-09-11T07:00:45Z	OK 200	100 ms
2026-09-11T06:01:09Z	OK 200	41 ms
2026-09-11T05:01:08Z	OK 200	49 ms
2026-09-11T04:01:10Z	OK 200	69 ms
2026-09-11T03:01:09Z	OK 200	39 ms
2026-09-11T02:01:05Z	OK 200	51 ms
2026-09-11T01:01:07Z	OK 200	25 ms
2026-09-11T00:01:08Z	OK 200	39 ms
2026-09-10T23:01:07Z	OK 200	43 ms
2026-09-10T22:01:06Z	OK 200	57 ms
2026-09-10T21:00:26Z	OK 200	7 ms
2026-09-10T20:00:28Z	OK 200	12 ms
2026-09-10T19:00:33Z	OK 200	10 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.