Issues with Codex
A record of the OpenAI incident on September 25, 2026 (UTC): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.
Other providers down at the same time
1 other incident(s) at different providers overlapped with this one. It may not have been limited to a single service — several providers were degraded at once.
- CursorInvestigating service degradation — Grok Bot
Derived from our own archive of official status pages across 13 providers. Items lasting more than 24 hours and unresolved items are excluded, as they would misrepresent the moment.
How big was this outage?
This outage lasted 56 minutes. Across 18 major incidents recorded for OpenAI, the median duration is 63 minutes, making this the 11th longest.
Shorter than a typical outage.
Only incidents recorded as major-or-worse and already resolved are counted.
Current status
OpenAI is still experiencing issues. Please check the latest status.
See current OpenAI status →What you can do during an outage
Source: OpenAI's official status page.
Other OpenAI incidents
- Elevated latency for some API requestsSeptember 30, 2026
- Elevated error rates for ChatGPT Pro and Plus usersSeptember 30, 2026
- Elevated errors in ChatGPT Space PagesSeptember 30, 2026
- Elevated errors across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API including the Agents APISeptember 29, 2026
- Support available via emailSeptember 29, 2026