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A record of the OpenAI incident on October 1, 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.
- AnthropicDelayed credits on the Claude Platform
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 53 minutes. Across 19 major incidents recorded for OpenAI, the median duration is 62 minutes, making this the 13th longest.
Shorter than a typical outage.
Only incidents recorded as major-or-worse and already resolved are counted.
Current status
OpenAI is operating normally now. This incident has been resolved.
See current OpenAI status →What you can do during an outage
Source: OpenAI's official status page.
Other OpenAI incidents
- Issues with data analysis and file creation in ChatGPTOctober 2, 2026
- 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