Is Rick and Morty API (rickandmortyapi.com) down right now?

No — Rick and Morty API (rickandmortyapi.com) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 200 in 57 ms (checked 2026-09-11T20:30:48Z). We check rickandmortyapi.com with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 100%.

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Is Rick and Morty API (rickandmortyapi.com) down?

UP right now — answered HTTP 200 in 57 ms.

Last checked 2026-09-11T20:30:48Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 100% · 7d: 100% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Context: Community-run and well-kept — the fetch-and-render staple of modern React tutorials, with REST and GraphQL, keyless, CORS open. Strictly read-only though: there are no write endpoints at all (POST answers 404), so it can't back any tutorial that saves anything.

What we check: GET https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/character/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 rickandmortyapi.com 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 Rick and Morty API (rickandmortyapi.com) migration guide → (it also says when Rick and Morty API (rickandmortyapi.com) 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 rickandmortyapi.com? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

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[![rickandmortyapi.com status](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/rickandmorty/badge.svg)](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/rickandmorty)

<!-- HTML -->
<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/rickandmorty"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/rickandmorty/badge.svg" alt="rickandmortyapi.com 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 rickandmortyapi.com 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": "rickandmorty", "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
2026-09-11T20:30:48Z	OK 200	57 ms
2026-09-11T20:30:23Z	OK 200	63 ms
2026-09-11T19:30:46Z	OK 200	37 ms
2026-09-11T19:30:24Z	OK 200	138 ms
2026-09-11T18:30:13Z	OK 200	28 ms
2026-09-11T17:30:26Z	OK 200	104 ms
2026-09-11T16:30:24Z	OK 200	78 ms
2026-09-11T13:31:00Z	OK 200	63 ms
2026-09-11T12:30:47Z	OK 200	34 ms
2026-09-11T11:30:48Z	OK 200	34 ms
2026-09-11T10:30:48Z	OK 200	47 ms
2026-09-11T09:30:47Z	OK 200	40 ms
2026-09-11T08:30:47Z	OK 200	31 ms
2026-09-11T07:30:47Z	OK 200	35 ms
2026-09-11T06:30:49Z	OK 200	48 ms
2026-09-11T05:31:09Z	OK 200	19 ms
2026-09-11T04:31:08Z	OK 200	23 ms
2026-09-11T03:31:04Z	OK 200	26 ms
2026-09-11T02:31:08Z	OK 200	19 ms
2026-09-11T01:31:05Z	OK 200	28 ms
2026-09-11T00:31:08Z	OK 200	31 ms
2026-09-10T23:31:04Z	OK 200	18 ms
2026-09-10T22:31:06Z	OK 200	19 ms
2026-09-10T21:31:06Z	OK 200	29 ms
2026-09-10T20:30:25Z	OK 200	33 ms
2026-09-10T19:30:25Z	OK 200	36 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.