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. OperationalDuration: 2h 17m

   Delays in customer support responses

   Started: Oct 23, 2026, 03:41 AM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 23, 2026, 05:58 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
2. DegradedDuration: 6h 32m

   Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors

   Started: Oct 22, 2026, 02:18 AM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 22, 2026, 08:50 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
3. DegradedDuration: 1h 9m

   Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests

   Started: Oct 21, 2026, 03:34 PM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 21, 2026, 04:44 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
4. DegradedDuration: 5h 53m

   Elevated FedRAMP API error rates for Astra and Sol

   Started: Oct 21, 2026, 01:42 PM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 21, 2026, 07:34 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
5. DegradedDuration: 1h 2m

   Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs

   Started: Oct 21, 2026, 02:26 AM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 21, 2026, 03:28 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
6. DegradedDuration: 41h 44m

   Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API

   Started: Oct 14, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 16, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
7. DegradedDuration: 40m

   Limited availability on gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

   Started: Oct 14, 2026, 10:18 AM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 14, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
8. DegradedDuration: 70h 39m

   Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API

   Started: Oct 9, 2026, 05:23 PM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 12, 2026, 04:02 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
9. DegradedDuration: 1h 2m

   Degraded performance in Codex and Work mode: Dot turn failures, delayed responses, and reduced proactivity

   Started: Oct 7, 2026, 05:21 PM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 7, 2026, 06:23 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
10. DegradedDuration: 4h 9m

    Workspace Agents Degraded and Responses Impacted

    Started: Oct 6, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 7, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
11. DegradedDuration: 2h 27m

    Errors processing large PDFs in the Responses API

    Started: Oct 6, 2026, 03:23 PM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 6, 2026, 05:50 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
12. DegradedDuration: 36m

    Elevated errors affecting multiple products including ChatGPT (conversations), Image generations, Spaces and Pages, API rehydration, and Dots.

    Started: Oct 6, 2026, 02:41 AM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 6, 2026, 03:17 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
13. DegradedDuration: 55m

    Elevated errors in API Platform login and administration APIs.

    Started: Oct 6, 2026, 12:40 AM UTC・ Resolved: Oct 6, 2026, 01:35 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
14. DegradedDuration: 3h 30m

    Elevated latency for some API requests

    Started: Sep 30, 2026, 05:05 PM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 30, 2026, 08:35 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
15. DegradedDuration: 5h 21m

    Elevated errors across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API including the Agents API

    Started: Sep 29, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 29, 2026, 11:14 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
16. OperationalDuration: 9h 23m

    Overbilling for OpenAI-hosted containers in the Agent API

    Started: Sep 18, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 19, 2026, 07:52 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
17. OperationalDuration: 3h 34m

    Delayed support responses

    Started: Sep 18, 2026, 09:36 PM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 19, 2026, 01:10 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
18. DegradedDuration: 1h 31m

    We are seeing elevated error rates across API models

    Started: Sep 17, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 17, 2026, 09:50 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
19. Partial outageDuration: 40m
    Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare
    Started: Sep 15, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 16, 2026, 12:30 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
20. OperationalDuration: 3h 9m

    Degraded Performance affecting Agents API

    Started: Sep 14, 2026, 08:30 PM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 14, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
21. DegradedDuration: 2h 13m

    Elevated errors for GPT-5.6 Sol on the API

    Started: Sep 11, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 11, 2026, 11:21 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
22. OperationalDuration: 1h 55m

    Delays in customer support responses

    Started: Sep 10, 2026, 07:53 PM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 10, 2026, 09:48 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
23. DegradedDuration: 7h 27m

    Elevated errors for image generation

    Started: Sep 8, 2026, 02:32 PM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 8, 2026, 09:59 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
24. 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, 07:00 AM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 4, 2026, 10:46 AM UTC・ Official details ↗
25. DegradedDuration: 20h 38m

    Elevated latency in the Responses API

    Started: Aug 31, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC・ Resolved: Sep 1, 2026, 07:05 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
26. DegradedDuration: 53m

    Elevated Codex API authentication errors

    Started: Aug 20, 2026, 04:58 PM UTC・ Resolved: Aug 20, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
27. OperationalDuration: 1h 7m

    Increase in errors on API, Codex and Work Mode

    Started: Aug 11, 2026, 09:35 PM UTC・ Resolved: Aug 11, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC・ Official details ↗
28. DegradedDuration: 8h 27m

    Elevated errors with image generation

    Started: Aug 5, 2026, 02:55 PM UTC・ Resolved: Aug 5, 2026, 11:22 PM UTC
29. DegradedDuration: 36m

    Elevated Image Generation Error Rate in ChatGPT

    Started: Jul 28, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC・ Resolved: Jul 28, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC
30. DegradedDuration: 1h 19m

    Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT

    Started: Jul 27, 2026, 07:05 PM UTC・ Resolved: Jul 27, 2026, 08:24 PM UTC
31. DegradedDuration: 13m

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

    Started: Jul 23, 2026, 11:56 PM UTC・ Resolved: Jul 24, 2026, 12:09 AM UTC
32. DegradedDuration: 7h 8m

    Elevated Errors Affecting File Uploads and Image Generation

    Started: Jul 22, 2026, 07:32 AM UTC・ Resolved: Jul 22, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC
33. Partial outageDuration: 2h 46m
    Elevated errors for API image generation
    Started: Jul 21, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC・ Resolved: Jul 21, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC
34. Partial outageDuration: 16h 14m
    Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT
    Started: Jul 21, 2026, 10:36 AM UTC・ Resolved: Jul 22, 2026, 02:50 AM UTC
35. Major outageDuration: 29m
    Elevated Errors for Sora API
    Started: Jul 11, 2026, 06:35 AM UTC・ Resolved: Jul 11, 2026, 07:03 AM UTC
36. DegradedDuration: 4h 44m

    Elevated errors with image generation in ChatGPT

    Started: Jul 7, 2026, 11:29 AM UTC・ Resolved: Jul 7, 2026, 04:12 PM UTC
37. DegradedDuration: 264h 55m

    FedRAMP workspaces and API orgs have degraded performance

    Started: Jun 15, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC・ Resolved: Jun 26, 2026, 11:07 PM UTC
38. DegradedDuration: 39m

    Image API requests failing with 401s

    Started: Jun 4, 2026, 07:12 PM UTC・ Resolved: Jun 4, 2026, 07:52 PM UTC
39. Partial outageDuration: 6h 11m
    Elevated error rates on Codex, ChatGPT and Responses API
    Started: Jun 3, 2026, 04:58 AM UTC・ Resolved: Jun 3, 2026, 11:09 AM UTC
40. DegradedDuration: 38m

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

    Started: Jun 2, 2026, 11:35 PM UTC・ Resolved: Jun 3, 2026, 12:13 AM UTC
41. DegradedDuration: 2h 26m

    Elevated Latency and Errors on API

    Started: May 27, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC・ Resolved: May 27, 2026, 05:12 PM UTC
42. DegradedDuration: 1h 5m

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

    Started: May 19, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC・ Resolved: May 20, 2026, 12:37 AM UTC
43. DegradedDuration: 2h 56m

    Realtime API - SIP/WebRTC flow are down

    Started: May 13, 2026, 06:28 AM UTC・ Resolved: May 13, 2026, 09:23 AM UTC