OpenAI API outage history

Past incidents recorded on OpenAI API's official status page — start time, duration, severity and the official link (depth available varies by provider).

1. Partial outage(ongoing)Duration: 20h 21m
   Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT
   Started: Jul 21, 2026, 07:36 PM
2. Major outageDuration: 29m
   Elevated Errors for Sora API
   Started: Jul 11, 2026, 03:35 PM・ Resolved: Jul 11, 2026, 04:03 PM
3. DegradedDuration: 4h 44m

   Elevated errors with image generation in ChatGPT

   Started: Jul 7, 2026, 08:29 PM・ Resolved: Jul 8, 2026, 01:12 AM
4. DegradedDuration: 264h 55m

   FedRAMP workspaces and API orgs have degraded performance

   Started: Jun 16, 2026, 07:12 AM・ Resolved: Jun 27, 2026, 08:07 AM
5. DegradedDuration: 39m

   Image API requests failing with 401s

   Started: Jun 5, 2026, 04:12 AM・ Resolved: Jun 5, 2026, 04:52 AM
6. Partial outageDuration: 6h 11m
   Elevated error rates on Codex, ChatGPT and Responses API
   Started: Jun 3, 2026, 01:58 PM・ Resolved: Jun 3, 2026, 08:09 PM
7. DegradedDuration: 38m

   codex-gpt-image-2-does-not-exist-errors

   Started: Jun 3, 2026, 08:35 AM・ Resolved: Jun 3, 2026, 09:13 AM
8. DegradedDuration: 2h 26m

   Elevated Latency and Errors on API

   Started: May 27, 2026, 11:47 PM・ Resolved: May 28, 2026, 02:12 AM
9. DegradedDuration: 1h 5m

   API users may see increased error rates for GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5

   Started: May 20, 2026, 08:32 AM・ Resolved: May 20, 2026, 09:37 AM
10. DegradedDuration: 2h 56m

    Realtime API - SIP/WebRTC flow are down

    Started: May 13, 2026, 03:28 PM・ Resolved: May 13, 2026, 06:23 PM