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Is Kickstarter down, or is it just you? This page tracks Kickstarter status against its official status page and shows any Kickstarter outage as it happens: current incidents, outage history and reports from other users.
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Kickstarter outage history
- Incidents, 90 days
- 2
- Last incident
- Oct 5, 2026
- Typical gap
- 16 days
- Most affected
- kickstarter.com
The last 20 incidents Kickstarter published ran from Aug 19, 2025 to Oct 5, 2026, 2 of them in the 90 days to Oct 13, 2026. The most recent was "Login and Signup Prevented due to 3rd Party Outage" on Oct 5, 2026. kickstarter.com (16), Mobile (8) and Payments (6) were named in the most incidents. Incidents came roughly every 16 days. The busiest month was March 2026, with 3. Kickstarter's status page lists 5 components.
Kickstarter outage reports
Reports submitted by people using Kickstarter, over the last 24 hours.
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Service health - last 24 hours
Live metrics load from Pagerly's Kickstarter monitors.
Component status
Kickstarter lists 5 components on its official status page.
- MobileChecking
- Stripe APIChecking
- Stripe JSChecking
- PaymentsChecking
- kickstarter.comChecking
Uptime statistics
- Last 7 days
- Last 30 days
- Last 90 days
Uptime figures load live from monitor history.
Recent incidents and outages
Incidents published on the provider's own status page, most recent first.
| Incident | Started | State |
|---|---|---|
| Login and Signup Prevented due to 3rd Party Outagekickstarter.com, Mobile | Oct 5, 2026 | Resolved |
| Elevated Error Rate | Aug 22, 2026 | Resolved |
| All clearkickstarter.com, Payments | Jun 29, 2026 | Resolved |
| Elevated Error Ratekickstarter.com, Payments | Jun 4, 2026 | Resolved |
| Issues loading Kickstarter | May 6, 2026 | Resolved |
| Users seeing errors on checkoutkickstarter.com, Payments | Apr 21, 2026 | Resolved |
| Some emails and notifications may be delayedkickstarter.com | Apr 17, 2026 | Resolved |
| Degraded site performancekickstarter.com, Mobile | Mar 24, 2026 | Resolved |
| Site slow and loading intermittentlykickstarter.com, Mobile | Mar 17, 2026 | Resolved |
| Some campaigns and pledges may not be loadingkickstarter.com, Payments, Mobile | Mar 5, 2026 | Resolved |
| New images from creators for story and updates aren't loadingkickstarter.com | Feb 20, 2026 | Resolved |
| Creators are unable to submit their projectkickstarter.com | Feb 20, 2026 | Resolved |
| Some campaign images not displayingkickstarter.com, Mobile | Feb 4, 2026 | Resolved |
| Kickstarter is down/slow to load | Jan 27, 2026 | Resolved |
| Kickstarter Outagekickstarter.com, Payments, Mobile | Dec 5, 2025 | Resolved |
Source: status.kickstarter.com
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Frequently asked questions
Is Kickstarter down right now?
The status at the top of this page is checked against Kickstarter's official status page every few minutes. If Kickstarter has an outage or degraded performance, it shows there along with the affected components.
When was the last Kickstarter outage?
The most recent incident Kickstarter published was "Login and Signup Prevented due to 3rd Party Outage" on Oct 5, 2026, affecting kickstarter.com, Mobile. It was one of 2 in the 90 days to Oct 13, 2026.
Which parts of Kickstarter have the most incidents?
Across the last 20 incidents on record, the components named most often were kickstarter.com (16 incidents), Mobile (8 incidents) and Payments (6 incidents).
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