ChatGPT

ChatGPT outage on 2026-08-20

Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT

Severity

Degraded

Duration

2h 55m

Started

2026-08-20 13:56 UTC

ended 2026-08-20 16:51 UTC

Where this came from

Reported by ChatGPT This record comes from ChatGPT's own status page, so the wording and the timings are theirs rather than ours.

18 recorded outages for ChatGPT run an hour or longer.

Earlier

2026-08-13

Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free users

Later

2026-08-21

Unexpected logouts for some ChatGPT web users