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. DegradedDuration: 7h 27m

   Elevated errors for image generation

   Started: Sep 8, 2026, 11:32 PM・ Resolved: Sep 9, 2026, 06:59 AM
2. DegradedDuration: 3h 46m

   Users in APAC region may face increased error in ChatGPT, Work, image generation, file upload, Voice, and Codex Cloud

   Started: Sep 4, 2026, 04:00 PM・ Resolved: Sep 4, 2026, 07:46 PM
3. DegradedDuration: 20h 38m

   Elevated latency in the Responses API

   Started: Sep 1, 2026, 07:27 AM・ Resolved: Sep 2, 2026, 04:05 AM
4. DegradedDuration: 53m

   Elevated Codex API authentication errors

   Started: Aug 21, 2026, 01:58 AM・ Resolved: Aug 21, 2026, 02:52 AM
5. OperationalDuration: 1h 7m

   Increase in errors on API, Codex and Work Mode

   Started: Aug 12, 2026, 06:35 AM・ Resolved: Aug 12, 2026, 07:42 AM
6. DegradedDuration: 8h 27m

   Elevated errors with image generation

   Started: Aug 5, 2026, 11:55 PM・ Resolved: Aug 6, 2026, 08:22 AM
7. DegradedDuration: 36m

   Elevated Image Generation Error Rate in ChatGPT

   Started: Jul 28, 2026, 11:39 PM・ Resolved: Jul 29, 2026, 12:15 AM
8. DegradedDuration: 1h 19m

   Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT

   Started: Jul 28, 2026, 04:05 AM・ Resolved: Jul 28, 2026, 05:24 AM
9. DegradedDuration: 13m

   Elevated API error rates and latency on gpt-image-2 model

   Started: Jul 24, 2026, 08:56 AM・ Resolved: Jul 24, 2026, 09:09 AM
10. DegradedDuration: 7h 8m

    Elevated Errors Affecting File Uploads and Image Generation

    Started: Jul 22, 2026, 04:32 PM・ Resolved: Jul 22, 2026, 11:39 PM
11. Partial outageDuration: 2h 46m
    Elevated errors for API image generation
    Started: Jul 22, 2026, 04:33 AM・ Resolved: Jul 22, 2026, 07:19 AM
12. Partial outageDuration: 16h 14m
    Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT
    Started: Jul 21, 2026, 07:36 PM・ Resolved: Jul 22, 2026, 11:50 AM
13. Major outageDuration: 29m
    Elevated Errors for Sora API
    Started: Jul 11, 2026, 03:35 PM・ Resolved: Jul 11, 2026, 04:03 PM
14. DegradedDuration: 4h 44m

    Elevated errors with image generation in ChatGPT

    Started: Jul 7, 2026, 08:29 PM・ Resolved: Jul 8, 2026, 01:12 AM
15. 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
16. DegradedDuration: 39m

    Image API requests failing with 401s

    Started: Jun 5, 2026, 04:12 AM・ Resolved: Jun 5, 2026, 04:52 AM
17. 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
18. DegradedDuration: 38m

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

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

    Elevated Latency and Errors on API

    Started: May 27, 2026, 11:47 PM・ Resolved: May 28, 2026, 02:12 AM
20. 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
21. DegradedDuration: 2h 56m

    Realtime API - SIP/WebRTC flow are down

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