OpenRouter incident
Meta Provider API calls are failing on OpenRouter with error 401.
Resolved after 1 h 37 min.
- Started
- Ended
- Worst state
- Degraded
- On OpenRouter’s status page
- Components
- Chat (/api/v1/chat/completions), STT (/api/v1/audio/transcriptions), TTS (/api/v1/audio/speech)
Timeline
- OpenRouter status page · Reported Meta Provider API calls are failing on OpenRouter with error 401.
- OpenRouter status page · Investigating The Meta team has been pinged and is investigating.
- OpenRouter status page · Identified The Meta team is continuing to investigate and is beginning work on remediation. Root cause is still unknown.
- OpenRouter status page · Monitoring The Meta team has begun applying remediations and success rate is improving. Root cause is still unknown.
- OpenRouter status page · Monitoring Meta Provider API calls are operational again. We are continuing to monitor.
- OpenRouter status page · Resolved The issue is now resolved. Root cause was identified as an authentication issue on the Meta Developer API Platform impacting all Managed Meta Accounts including OpenRouter's.
Cite this incident
Site Qwality, “Meta Provider API calls are failing on OpenRouter with error 401.,” Sep 24, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-openrouter-down/incidents/openrouter-202609242255/
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