Duolingo outage on January 13, 2026

On January 13, 2026, Duolingo had 2 incidents recorded on Duolingo's official status page, lasting about 12 minutes. Here's what happened, in the provider's own words — DownRNdoesn't invent causes or durations.

critical

Duolingo is experiencing increased errors

Started
5:18 AM ET
Resolved
5:30 AM ET
Duration
12 minutes
Status
resolved
none

Duolingo is investigating an issue related to Leaderboards

Started
11:23 AM ET
Resolved
11:58 AM ET
Duration
35 minutes
Status
resolved

Duolingo shares infrastructure with 10 other apps we track — outages like this can cascade. See what goes down with Duolingo.