What /health tells you
2026-03-23 · Using the API
A public health response says whether the gateway can see the solver and the database.
GET /health does not need an API key. It is cached for about 5 seconds. status: ok means the solver answered and the database answered. degraded means one of those checks failed.
Do not solve captchas against /health. It does not accept an image.
A deploy smoke test is curl https://captchaocr.allvoraz.com/health. The engines map shows whether text, math, and Hindi loaded.
If every solve is 503 while health is degraded, wait and retry. If health is ok and you still see 401, the key is the problem, not the solver.
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