The error
Faucets word this differently, but these are the same problem:
Faucet is not available.
This faucet is temporarily unavailable.
Service unavailable — please try again later.
Why it happens
The faucet's own backend is refusing to serve requests. It nearly always means one of three things: the dispensing wallet has run dry, the operator has disabled the faucet during maintenance, or the backend is erroring. The page itself still loads, which is why this reads as an application message rather than a browser error.
How to fix it
- Check whether it's the faucet or you. Our daily check records the cause of every failure — the faucets currently down page shows which ones are failing right now and why.
- Look at the dispensing wallet. Where we can verify a faucet on-chain, its page shows the live wallet balance and last payout. An empty wallet means "not available" is going to persist; a funded wallet that paid out today means it's worth retrying.
- Try the other faucet for the same token. Several networks have more than one, and they rarely fail together.
- Retry in an hour if the cause was a timeout or a 5xx. Those recover on their own. A dead domain does not.