Is Notion AI Down?
Check live Notion and Notion AI status — AI writing, summarization, Q&A over your workspace, page sync, and database access. See recent incidents and set up free email alerts.
Notion — live status
Updated every 5 minutes. Full incident history at prismix.dev/service/notion.
Quick check: is Notion down right now?
Notion AI and the base Notion app can fail independently — Notion AI uses an external GPT-4 backend while the core app runs on Notion's own infrastructure. The fastest ways to check both:
- Prismix: prismix.dev/service/notion — live status indicator, 30-day uptime history, and recent incident log.
- Notion's own status page:
notion.so/status— Notion's first-party status page. If Notion AI is degraded separately from the base app, it often appears here first. - API check:
curl https://prismix.dev/api/v1/statuses | jq '.services[] | select(.id=="notion")'
Common causes of "Notion not working"
Notion issues fall into several distinct buckets — AI features, sync, search, formulas, and API. Identifying which one is broken narrows down the fix:
- Notion AI responses not generating ("AI is thinking..." forever) — Notion AI uses GPT-4 on the backend. If OpenAI is degraded, Notion AI hangs even when the base Notion app loads and edits fine. Check prismix.dev/guides/openai-api-status to cross-reference. If OpenAI is operational and Notion AI still hangs, hard-refresh the tab (Ctrl+Shift+R / Cmd+Shift+R) to clear stale state.
- Notion pages not syncing / edits not saving — Notion's sync layer uses WebSockets. If you see a yellow "Saving..." indicator stuck at the top of the page, your WebSocket connection has dropped. Reload the tab to re-establish it. If you are offline, Notion queues edits locally and syncs them automatically on reconnect — check your network connection first before assuming a Notion outage.
- Notion AI "add-on not active" error — Notion AI is a paid add-on ($8/user/month on top of your Notion plan) and must be enabled per workspace. If you see this error on a shared workspace, the workspace admin needs to activate Notion AI under Settings & Members → Notion AI. For a personal workspace, go to Settings → Notion AI and activate the add-on from there.
- Search returning stale or wrong results — Notion's search index updates with a delay of 5 to 30 minutes for newly created or edited content. Recently added pages may not appear in search immediately. As a workaround, use Ctrl+P / Cmd+P (Quick Find) and browse the "Recently visited" list instead of searching by name.
- Database formulas showing errors after a Notion update — Notion periodically updates its formula engine. Formulas migrated from the old syntax (e.g.
prop("Column")) may break after an engine update. Check Notion's changelog atnotion.com/releasesfor formula migration notes and update your formula syntax to the current version. - Notion API returning 429 rate limit errors — Notion's public API is limited to 3 requests per second per integration token. Bulk database reads must be paginated using the
start_cursorparameter. Implement exponential backoff when you receive a 429 response. Note that the integration token is scoped per workspace, not per user — all requests from a single integration share the same 3 req/s bucket.
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On prismix.dev/service/notion, click the ☆ star icon. Starred services trigger email alerts on every status change.
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