Is ChatGPT Down?
OpenAI · API & platform status
ChatGPT, GPT-4o, GPT-4, o1, o3, DALL-E, Whisper, and OpenAI API platform services.
Official status data last reflected here:
[ STATUS AT A GLANCE ]
System Components
Current status of individual OpenAI services
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About OpenAI
What OpenAI does, where the data on this page comes from, and recent reliability
[ ABOUT OPENAI ]
About OpenAI
OpenAI provides ChatGPT, OpenAI API, GPT-4o, and o-series reasoning models. Teams depend on OpenAI for both end-user chat products and API-driven application traffic, so even short disruptions can affect support, automation, and revenue-critical workflows.
This page pulls data from OpenAI's official status page to show current service health, any active incidents, and a history of recent issues, all in one view.
[ DATA SOURCES ]
Full incident history available
OpenAI publishes detailed component status, a full incident archive, and scheduled maintenance data through their official status page.
- Data pulled from OpenAI's official status page (status.openai.com)
- Refreshed every 60 seconds
- Covers ChatGPT, OpenAI API, GPT-4o, o-series reasoning models, and DALL-E
- Includes full incident archive and scheduled maintenance history
[ RELIABILITY ]
Recent reliability
- 25 incidents reported over the last 90 days.
- The most recent incident was reported today.
- 1 component is currently showing issues: FedRAMP.
- Most frequently affected: FedRAMP.
[ COMMON USE CASES ]
How teams use OpenAI
Teams depend on OpenAI for both end-user chat products and API-driven application traffic, so even short disruptions can affect support, automation, and revenue-critical workflows.
Incidents & Maintenance
Active incidents, scheduled maintenance, and incident history for OpenAI
Active Incidents (1)
Login issues for FedRAMP users who recently logged out
May 26, 2026
Past Incidents
Users unable to access chat support on help center
May 26, 2026 · Resolved May 26, 2026
Increase in users hitting Codex rate limits
May 22, 2026 · Resolved May 23, 2026
Elevated latency and error rates for ChatGPT 5.5 Thinking
May 21, 2026 · Resolved May 21, 2026
Elevated error rates on ChatGPT paid plans
May 21, 2026 · Resolved May 21, 2026
+ 4 more updates
API users may see increased error rates for GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5
May 19, 2026 · Resolved May 20, 2026
GPT5.5 Performance Degradation
May 15, 2026 · Resolved May 17, 2026
Codex Cloud and Code Review experiencing high failure rate
May 14, 2026 · Resolved May 14, 2026
Issues accessing ChatGPT for logged-out users
May 13, 2026 · Resolved May 13, 2026
Codex 5.5 engines are experiencing high error rate
May 13, 2026 · Resolved May 13, 2026
Realtime API - SIP/WebRTC flow are down
May 13, 2026 · Resolved May 13, 2026
Elevated error rates with GPT 5.5
May 11, 2026 · Resolved May 11, 2026
Users may experience elevated errors in ChatGPT uploading files and Codex Cloud creating tasks
May 11, 2026 · Resolved May 11, 2026
Elevated errors for Responses API
May 9, 2026 · Resolved May 9, 2026
Degraded Performance with Codex Cloud Tasks
May 8, 2026 · Resolved May 8, 2026
Increased Error Rate for gpt-5.5 model in the API
May 8, 2026 · Resolved May 8, 2026
Elevated transcription failures affecting ChatGPT & Codex
May 7, 2026 · Resolved May 8, 2026
+ 1 more updates
Increased error rate with image generation in the API
May 7, 2026 · Resolved May 7, 2026
Partial Disruption of ChatGPT Workspace Connector Write Actions
Apr 29, 2026 · Resolved May 5, 2026
Issue affecting some pages on the ChatGPT website
May 4, 2026 · Resolved May 4, 2026
Elevated error rate for Responses API
May 1, 2026 · Resolved May 1, 2026
Frequently Asked Questions
Is ChatGPT down right now?
Check the status indicator at the top of this page. It pulls directly from OpenAI's official status page. If OpenAI is experiencing any issues, you'll see it reflected here. This real-time monitoring helps teams quickly identify whether performance problems are caused by OpenAI infrastructure or their own systems.
What does this OpenAI status page track?
This page tracks ChatGPT, OpenAI API, GPT-4o, o-series reasoning models, and DALL-E using data from OpenAI's official status page. You can see current component health, active incidents, and a history of past issues. This visibility is crucial for teams building resilient AI applications that need to route around provider outages.
How often is OpenAI status updated here?
We check OpenAI's status page every 60 seconds to ensure you get near real-time status updates. How quickly issues show up here depends on how fast OpenAI updates their own official status. For production systems that need instant failover, Bifrost can automatically detect and route around degraded providers.
Why monitor OpenAI status?
Teams depend on OpenAI for both end-user chat products and API-driven application traffic, so even short disruptions can affect support, automation, and revenue-critical workflows. Real-time status monitoring enables proactive incident response and helps teams decide when to route traffic to alternative providers for maximum uptime.
What should I do when ChatGPT or OpenAI has an outage?
When OpenAI experiences an outage, the best practice is automatic failover to alternative AI providers. Bifrost is an open-source AI gateway that automatically detects OpenAI degradation and routes LLM traffic to healthy alternatives like Anthropic (Claude), Azure OpenAI, Groq, keeping your application running with zero manual intervention. This intelligent routing ensures your users never experience downtime from a single provider's issues.
How can I prevent OpenAI downtime from affecting my application?
Production AI applications should never depend on a single provider. Bifrost AI Gateway provides automatic multi-provider failover, intelligent load balancing, and health-based routing. When OpenAI degrades, Bifrost instantly routes requests to operational alternatives while maintaining API compatibility. This architecture approach is used by teams running mission-critical AI features.
What are common causes of OpenAI outages and degraded performance?
Based on incident history, OpenAI issues most frequently affect FedRAMP. Common causes include infrastructure scaling issues, regional cloud provider problems, API gateway overload, and deployment errors. Teams using Bifrost can configure automatic routing rules based on component-level status to minimize impact.
Alternative Providers for Automatic Failover
When OpenAI experiences issues, Bifrost AI Gateway can automatically route your LLM traffic to these alternatives
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