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Is OpenAI down right now?

No, it’s up.

OpenAI appears to be up and running normally.

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Over the last 7 days, OpenAI has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~154 ms. According to OpenAI's official status page, the most recent outage began 2026-08-27 18:00 UTC and lasted 4h 14m (severity: degraded). It was reported as "Users may experience an increase in error rates in Workspace Agents and ChatGPT Work on Web and Mobile".

OpenAI runs ChatGPT and the API behind GPT models, DALL-E, and Whisper, used by consumers directly and by thousands of applications that embed it. An outage looks different depending on where you sit: ChatGPT users see conversations failing to send, while developers see elevated latency, 429s, or 5xx responses from the API, often on one model family before the rest.

OpenAI is also searched for as open ai and OpenAI API.

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Our automated checks are reaching OpenAI normally right now, and it answered our last one in 125ms. That makes any trouble you are hitting more likely to be local to your connection, account or network than a full outage, which usually means you can fix it from your end.

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OpenAI response time (last 24h)

Last 24hpeak 609 ms

OpenAI incident history (last 90 days)

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All 20 recorded outages

23 of the incidents below were reported by OpenAI on days we were not yet monitoring, so the timeline above leaves those days hatched rather than colouring them in.

DateWhat happenedDurationSeverity
Users may experience an increase in error rates in Workspace Agents and ChatGPT Work on Web and MobileReported by OpenAI4h 14mDegraded
Unexpected logouts for some ChatGPT web usersReported by OpenAI3h 26mDegraded
Elevated Codex API authentication errorsReported by OpenAI53mDegraded
Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT Reported by OpenAI2h 55mDegraded
Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right nowReported by OpenAI52mDegraded
Elevated errors deploying SitesReported by OpenAI20mDegraded
Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free usersReported by OpenAI8h 38mDegraded
Users unable to login to ads managerReported by OpenAI3mDegraded
Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Go conversationsReported by OpenAI10mDegraded
Increased error ratesReported by OpenAI2h 7mDegraded
Increased error ratesReported by OpenAI12h 43mDegraded
Increased errors for some ChatGPT usersReported by OpenAI47mDegraded
Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations with filesReported by OpenAI3h 13mDegraded
Issues with Custom GPT actionsReported by OpenAI5h 53mDegraded
Elevated errors with image generationReported by OpenAI8h 26mDegraded
Elevated ChatGPT conversation errors affecting Plus, Pro, Business, and Edu usersReported by OpenAI2h 41mDegraded
Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversationsReported by OpenAI1h 25mDegraded
Elevated error rates with the invalid_prompt error codeReported by OpenAI1h 24mDegraded
Elevated Image Generation Error Rate in ChatGPTReported by OpenAI35mDegraded
Image generation unavailable in ChatGPTReported by OpenAI1h 19mDegraded
We’re seeing elevated latency, timeouts, and interrupted streaming across gpt 5.1 mini model and gpt 4.1 miniReported by OpenAI0sDegraded
Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversationsReported by OpenAI1d 18hDegraded
Elevated error ratesReported by OpenAI21mDegraded
Elevated error ratesReported by OpenAI1h 50mDegraded
Elevated Errors in Codex ReviewReported by OpenAI1h 39mDegraded
Elevated API error rates and latency on gpt-image-2 modelReported by OpenAI13mDegraded
Some users may experience elevated error rates in ChatGPTReported by OpenAI2h 44mDegraded
Elevated Error RatesReported by OpenAI1d 3hDegraded
Elevated errors for Workspace AgentReported by OpenAI1h 20mDegraded
Elevated Errors Affecting File Uploads and Image GenerationReported by OpenAI7h 7mDegraded

OpenAI uptime

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Measured since 2026-08-12. Windows reaching further back are averaged over the 39 days we watched, not the full period. Counts our own checks. Days OpenAI reported an incident are coloured in the timeline above but do not change this figure.

What to do if OpenAI is down for just you

  • Check platform.openai.com/usage — hitting a rate limit or spend cap returns errors that look identical to an outage.
  • Note whether ChatGPT or the API is failing. They are separate surfaces and often fail independently.
  • If you get 401s, your API key was rotated or revoked; 429s mean throttling, not downtime.
  • Corporate and school networks frequently block OpenAI endpoints outright — try another network before assuming an outage.

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OpenAI appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-09-19 07:03 UTC.

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