
Is NordVPN Down?
No. NordVPN is up right now.
Every monitored NordVPN system is operational as of September 25, 2026. PulsAPI did not find an outage in its latest check of the official status feed.
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NordVPN Component Status
The main NordVPN systems on this page. All 6 are operational right now.
3 more components tracked
Their status is in the bar above. Free accounts see every component by name.
Also tracking nordvpn.com, order.nordvpn.com, support.nordvpn.com.
Component statuses may change independently during partial outages.
Recent NordVPN Outages & Incidents
Incident history from the official NordVPN status page, including resolution updates.
NordVPN Uptime History
Daily uptime recorded by PulsAPI over the last 90 days, with the days that carried a NordVPN incident marked. Each day is measured from our own checks, so the record continues even when the vendor publishes nothing.
What to Do When NordVPN Is Down
NordVPN failures are rarely all-or-nothing, which is why the account page usually looks fine while nothing connects. The three parts fail separately: the client's ability to authenticate, the server network itself, and individual protocols. A connection that hangs at 'Connecting' while the website loads normally is almost always a server or protocol problem rather than an outage of the service.
Before assuming an outage, switch protocol (NordLynx to OpenVPN TCP, or the reverse) and try a different country. A protocol-specific or region-specific failure is by far the most common shape, and both are worked around in seconds. If every protocol and several regions fail while nordvpn.com loads, that is when the problem is upstream rather than local.
Worth ruling out on your side: an expired subscription presents as a connection failure rather than a billing message, and a stale client can fail against rotated server configs. Both look identical to an outage from the client's point of view.
NordVPN Status Page vs PulsAPI
Consumer VPN providers generally publish coarse status: a single overall indicator rather than per-region or per-protocol detail. That is reasonable for a consumer product and not much use when your specific server group is unreachable.
PulsAPI checks NordVPN independently (every 60 seconds once it starts moving) and keeps the history, so a short regional failure that never made the official page still shows up as a dip here. The community reports on this page are usually the fastest signal of all for a consumer product at this scale, because affected users notice within minutes.
Live NordVPN Outage Reports
Problems reported by engineers using NordVPN. Reports often appear 10 to 20 minutes before the official status page moves, and stay on this page for 90 days.
No NordVPN problems reported yet.
Something wrong with NordVPN on your end?
Reports are anonymous, take about ten seconds, and help the next engineer who checks.
About NordVPN
Is NordVPN down? NordVPN reports live availability for 2 components at status.nordvpn.com, among them NordVPN Services and NordVPN Web Pages. Track NordVPN outages, degradations and past incidents here, with uptime history and alerts across your SaaS stack.
Over the past 30 days, PulsAPI has measured NordVPN uptime at 100.00%. Response times, incident history, and SLA tracking for NordVPN are available on the PulsAPI dashboard.
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