OpenAI status history
Current state: operational — “All Systems Operational” per https://status.openai.com (Atlassian Statuspage), checked 2026-09-16 12:28 UTC.
How long do OpenAI incidents last?
From 43 incidents with a vendor-posted start and resolve time. Longest on record: Elevated latency in the Responses API — 20.6 h (2026-08-31 22:27 UTC). Excluded, never estimated: nothing. Duration is the gap between the vendor's own posted timestamps — it is not measured downtime, uptime or an SLA figure, and a vendor that posts every blip will look worse here than one that posts nothing. Same rule as the outage-duration dataset.
Incidents on record (43)
| Started | Incident | Status | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 23:50 UTC | Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare | resolved | major | 40 min |
| 2026-09-15 16:52 UTC | Ads Manager login issues | resolved | minor | 1 min |
| 2026-09-15 07:12 UTC | Elevated errors from GPT-5.6 and GPT-5.6 Instant on paid plans | resolved | minor | 41 min |
| 2026-09-14 23:20 UTC | Degraded Performance affecting Agents API | resolved | none | 18 min |
| 2026-09-14 15:58 UTC | Elevated errors affecting Work Mode in ChatGPT | resolved | minor | 11 h 12 min |
| 2026-09-14 02:46 UTC | Elevated error rates for Codex and ChatGPT Work | resolved | none | 1 h 10 min |
| 2026-09-13 16:56 UTC | Elevated errors for ChatGPT users in Europe | resolved | minor | 51 min |
| 2026-09-13 09:26 UTC | Codex GitHub Review and Pull Request Failures | resolved | minor | 27 min |
| 2026-09-11 16:22 UTC | 1% of ChatGPT Work (mobile/web) turns are failing for existing threads | resolved | minor | 9 h 34 min |
| 2026-09-11 09:08 UTC | Elevated errors for GPT-5.6 Sol on the API | resolved | minor | 2 h 13 min |
| 2026-09-11 07:53 UTC | Elevated errors for ChatGPT users in Europe | resolved | minor | 2 h 23 min |
| 2026-09-10 19:53 UTC | Delays in customer support responses | resolved | none | 1 h 55 min |
| 2026-09-10 19:49 UTC | Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Work | resolved | minor | 1 h 40 min |
| 2026-09-10 02:21 UTC | Unable to open shared ChatGPT Project using direct link | resolved | minor | 12 h 06 min |
| 2026-09-09 17:29 UTC | Investigating unexpected usage limit resets | resolved | none | 24 min |
| 2026-09-09 15:13 UTC | Increased Error Rate For Pro and Plus Plan Conversations | resolved | minor | 1 h 08 min |
| 2026-09-08 14:39 UTC | File uploads are delayed or failing | resolved | minor | 4 h 36 min |
| 2026-09-08 14:32 UTC | Elevated errors for image generation | resolved | minor | 7 h 26 min |
| 2026-09-04 07:00 UTC | Users in APAC region may face increased error in ChatGPT, Work, image generation, file upload, Voice, and Codex Cloud | resolved | minor | 3 h 46 min |
| 2026-09-03 14:58 UTC | Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex | resolved | minor | 1 h 57 min |
| 2026-09-03 00:04 UTC | ChatGPT Work Mode High Error Rates | resolved | major | 6 min |
| 2026-09-02 18:13 UTC | Elevated errors creating new accounts | resolved | none | 31 min |
| 2026-09-01 00:38 UTC | Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free and Go plans | resolved | minor | 21 min |
| 2026-08-31 22:27 UTC | Elevated latency in the Responses API | resolved | minor | 20 h 37 min |
| 2026-08-31 15:04 UTC | ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency | resolved | major | 5 h 23 min |
| 2026-08-27 18:00 UTC | Users may experience an increase in error rates in Workspace Agents and ChatGPT Work on Web and Mobile | resolved | minor | 4 h 14 min |
| 2026-08-21 19:48 UTC | Unexpected logouts for some ChatGPT web users | resolved | minor | 3 h 26 min |
| 2026-08-20 16:58 UTC | Elevated Codex API authentication errors | resolved | minor | 53 min |
| 2026-08-20 13:56 UTC | Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT | resolved | minor | 2 h 55 min |
| 2026-08-20 00:02 UTC | Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right now | resolved | minor | 52 min |
| 2026-08-18 19:17 UTC | Elevated errors deploying Sites | resolved | minor | 20 min |
| 2026-08-13 15:19 UTC | Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free users | resolved | minor | 8 h 38 min |
| 2026-08-13 14:03 UTC | Error while creating custom RBAC roles for Enterprise users | resolved | none | 8 h 23 min |
| 2026-08-11 21:35 UTC | Increase in errors on API, Codex and Work Mode | resolved | none | 1 h 07 min |
| 2026-08-11 17:25 UTC | Users unable to login to ads manager | resolved | minor | 3 min |
| 2026-08-11 14:10 UTC | Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Go conversations | resolved | minor | 10 min |
| 2026-08-11 12:54 UTC | Increased error rates | resolved | minor | 2 h 07 min |
| 2026-08-10 14:04 UTC | Increased error rates | resolved | minor | 12 h 43 min |
| 2026-08-10 07:21 UTC | Increased errors for some ChatGPT users | resolved | minor | 47 min |
| 2026-08-05 17:06 UTC | Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations with files | resolved | minor | 3 h 13 min |
| 2026-08-05 16:55 UTC | Issues with Custom GPT actions | resolved | minor | 5 h 53 min |
| 2026-08-05 14:55 UTC | Elevated errors with image generation | resolved | minor | 8 h 26 min |
| 2026-08-04 12:43 UTC | Elevated ChatGPT conversation errors affecting Plus, Pro, Business, and Edu users | resolved | minor | 2 h 41 min |
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