Major outageOpenAIJuly 11, 2026

Elevated Errors for Sora API

A record of the OpenAI incident on July 11, 2026 (Japan time): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.

Started
Jul 11, 2026, 03:35 PM
Resolved
Jul 11, 2026, 04:03 PM
Duration
29m
Impact
Major outage

Current status

OpenAI is operating normally now. This incident has been resolved.

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What you can do during an outage

Source: OpenAI's official status page.

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