Black Forest Labs

bfl.ai

Black Forest Labs declares 10 subprocessors in its subprocessor list, which we last checked on Nov 11, 2026 (evidence). They include Google Cloud, Microsoft and GitHub. No published changes since we first read it on Sep 22, 2026. 7 tracked vendors name Black Forest Labs as a subprocessor, including Mistral, Adobe and Luma AI.

Subprocessors CSV · Atom DORA draft CSV what's this? · 

10 third parties.

NamePurposeLocationListed since
DocuSign Document management
GitHub Version control
Google Drive Document management
Google Workspace Identity provider
Linear Collaboration
Microsoft Azure Cloud provider
Remote
Rippling Employee management
Trello Collaboration
Vanta Continuous security and compliance monitoringSecurity

Web TechnologiesCSV · Atom

Black Forest Labs's homepage made 98 requests to 5 domains, and 3 services controlled by another company.

Analytics (1): ClayCookie compliance (1): CookieYesOther (1): CMS: Sanity

3 third parties by category: Analytics 1Cookie compliance 1Other 1

Third parties 3 · 26 requests
Sanity Sanity Sanity.io 16% of the page's requests 16
CookieYes CookieYes 6% of the page's requests 6
Clay Clay Web Intent 4% of the page's requests 4
First party 1 · 72 requests
Black Forest Labs Framer Motion HSTS Lucide Next.js 15.5.28 Next.js App Router Open Graph PWA Priority Hints Radix UI React Vercel Webpack 73% of the page's requests 72

3 tracked companies loaded by the homepage are not in Black Forest Labs's subprocessor list. A website can use a service without it processing customer data.

Subprocessor of (7)CSV · Atom

7 companies
  • Adobe adobe.com
  • Codia codia.ai
  • Gamma gamma.app Artificial intelligence services
  • Luma AI lumalabs.ai Video generation provider
  • Mistral mistral.ai Image Generation; Products: Vibe, Studio /API
  • Picsart picsart.io AI Service
  • Verda verda.com Privacy policy:; Processing FLUX.1 Kontext content

ComplianceCSV · Atom

Certified
Says it complies with

Certifications as Black Forest Labs's trust center lists them; reports are usually shared on request (evidence)

Service statusCSV · Atom

  • minor Europe reduced model set
  • minor The status page says: Partially Degraded Service · API Europe (api.eu.bfl.ai): degraded performance
Aug 14: no incident reportedAug 15: no incident reportedAug 16: no incident reportedAug 17: no incident reportedAug 18: no incident reportedAug 19: 3 incidents (1 major, 2 minor)Aug 20: no incident reportedAug 21: no incident reportedAug 22: no incident reportedAug 23: no incident reportedAug 24: no incident reportedAug 25: 1 incident (1 no impact stated)Aug 26: no incident reportedAug 27: no incident reportedAug 28: no incident reportedAug 29: no incident reportedAug 30: no incident reportedAug 31: no incident reportedSep 1: no incident reportedSep 2: no incident reportedSep 3: no incident reportedSep 4: no incident reportedSep 5: no incident reportedSep 6: no incident reportedSep 7: no incident reportedSep 8: 1 incident (1 no impact stated)Sep 9: no incident reportedSep 10: no incident reportedSep 11: no incident reportedSep 12: no incident reportedSep 13: no incident reportedSep 14: no incident reportedSep 15: no incident reportedSep 16: no incident reportedSep 17: no incident reportedSep 18: no incident reportedSep 19: no incident reportedSep 20: no incident reportedSep 21: no incident reportedSep 22: no incident reportedSep 23: no incident reportedSep 24: no incident reportedSep 25: no incident reportedSep 26: no incident reportedSep 27: no incident reportedSep 28: no incident reportedSep 29: 1 incident (1 major)Sep 30: no incident reportedOct 1: no incident reportedOct 2: no incident reportedOct 3: no incident reportedOct 4: no incident reportedOct 5: no incident reportedOct 6: no incident reportedOct 7: no incident reportedOct 8: no incident reportedOct 9: no incident reportedOct 10: no incident reportedOct 11: no incident reportedOct 12: no incident reportedOct 13: no incident reportedOct 14: no incident reportedOct 15: no incident reportedOct 16: no incident reportedOct 17: no incident reportedOct 18: no incident reportedOct 19: no incident reportedOct 20: no incident reportedOct 21: no incident reportedOct 22: no incident reportedOct 23: no incident reportedOct 24: no incident reportedOct 25: no incident reportedOct 26: no incident reportedOct 27: no incident reportedOct 28: no incident reportedOct 29: no incident reportedOct 30: no incident reportedOct 31: no incident reportedNov 1: no incident reportedNov 2: 1 incident (1 critical)Nov 3: no incident reportedNov 4: no incident reportedNov 5: no incident reportedNov 6: no incident reportedNov 7: no incident reportedNov 8: no incident reportedNov 9: 1 incident (1 minor)Nov 10: no incident reportedNov 11: no incident reported

90 days agotoday

  • 8 incidents in 90 days
  • 3 major or critical
  • 6 h 30 min typical time to resolve
  • 3 days longest major
BeganIncidentImpactLasted
Europe reduced model setminorongoing
Europe compute outagecritical3 days
EU cluster increased latenciesmajor20 h 14 min
US region increased latenciesno impact stated6 h 30 min
Please avoid cluster specific endpoints.no impact stated1 min
EU region cluster outageminor4 h 51 min
Cluster Down - FLUX.2 [flex] Traffic Impactedminor7 h 41 min
Extended flux-3-video generation timesmajor2 h 38 min

Incidents per month

0 5 10 Dec 2025: 4 incidents (2 major, 1 minor, 1 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 4 h 58 min Jan 2026: 1 incident (1 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 7 h 39 min Feb 2026: 3 incidents (1 minor, 2 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 2 h 46 min Mar 2026: 10 incidents (2 minor, 8 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 32 min Apr 2026: 6 incidents (1 critical, 2 major, 1 minor, 2 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 1 h 32 min May 2026: 2 incidents (1 minor, 1 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 3 h 23 min Jun 2026: 1 incident (1 no impact stated) Jul 2026: 1 incident (1 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 5 h 8 min Aug 2026: 7 incidents (2 major, 3 minor, 2 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 2 h 38 min Sep 2026: 2 incidents (1 major, 1 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 20 h 14 min Oct 2026: 0 incidents Nov 2026: 2 incidents (1 critical, 1 minor) · typical time to resolve 3 days Dec 2025Jan 2026Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov

critical major minor no impact stated

Components affected

ComponentIncidents
API (api.bfl.ai)3
API Europe (api.eu.bfl.ai)3

As Black Forest Labs's status page reports its own incidents (scheduled maintenance left out), read every few hours since (evidence)

Incidents reported by Black Forest Labs's subprocessorsCSV · Atom

47 reported incidents in the last 30 days, by 4 of the vendors Black Forest Labs lists as subprocessors.

A subprocessor list names a company, not the service an incident touched. This does not show that Black Forest Labs was involved.

DateCompanyIncidentImpactLasted
GitHubImpact across multiple GitHub products including Actions, Pages, and Copilot products. critical33 min
GitHubIncident with Webhooks minor4 min
RipplingPerformance degraded minorongoing
LinearSlack integration degraded due to Slack outage minor3 h 9 min
GitHubIncident with Git Operations and Pull Requests critical1 h 44 min
RipplingSalesforce integrations disconnecting minor10 h 14 min
GitHubDegraded availability for GPT-5.3 Codex and GPT-5.6 models in Copilot major49 min
GitHubIncident with Actions and Checks API critical46 min
GitHubIncident with Webhooks and Actions major1 h 50 min
GitHubIncreased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users minor3 h 10 min
GitHubIncrease in timeouts for some unauthenticated users minor1 h 56 min
RipplingPlatform APIs are returning 403s no impact stated1 min
GitHubDegraded performance for multiple GitHub services minor44 min
GitHubIncident with Actions minor52 min
GitHubIncident with Actions major35 min
GitHubIncident with Actions and Pages major55 min
GitHubIncident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues major2 h
GitHubIncreased task-related errors for Copilot Mission Control minor1 h 16 min
VantaMissing check results for GitHub pull requests minorongoing
GitHubIncident with Git Operations minor1 h 43 min
GitHubIncident with API, Git, and Copilot requests minor30 min
GitHubElevated errors on GPT-5.4 Nano minor38 min
GitHubIncident with Dependabot minor2 h 29 min
GitHubIncident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks major1 h 32 min
LinearProject pages failing to load minor3 min

And 22 more. All of them: CSV · Who is around them.

ChangesCSV · Atom

See the list as we read it on any date: Time machine

None since tracking began.

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