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.
- Last reported incident was 3 days ago.
- All 25 monitored components are currently operational.
[ 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
Past Incidents
Users in APAC region may face increased error in ChatGPT, Work, image generation, file upload, Voice, and Codex Cloud
Sep 4, 2026 · Resolved Sep 4, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex
Sep 3, 2026 · Resolved Sep 3, 2026
The issue causing elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex has been resolved. Some Codex remote control users may need to pair their mobile device again following this incident.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
ChatGPT Work Mode High Error Rates
Sep 3, 2026 · Resolved Sep 3, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
ChatGPT Work Mode is experiencing high error rates. We are investigating the issue.
Elevated errors creating new accounts
Sep 2, 2026 · Resolved Sep 2, 2026
The issue affecting new account creation has been resolved.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring recovery.
We are investigating an issue preventing some users from creating new accounts. We will share updates as we learn more.
Elevated latency in the Responses API
Aug 31, 2026 · Resolved Sep 1, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We are implementing the mitigation.
We have identified elevated latencies impacting Responses API on the US endpoint.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
+ 2 more updates
Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free and Go plans
Sep 1, 2026 · Resolved Sep 1, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency
Aug 31, 2026 · Resolved Aug 31, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.
User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.
User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.
User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.
+ 3 more updates
Users may experience an increase in error rates in Workspace Agents and ChatGPT Work on Web and Mobile
Aug 27, 2026 · Resolved Aug 27, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Unexpected logouts for some ChatGPT web users
Aug 21, 2026 · Resolved Aug 21, 2026
The issue causing some ChatGPT web users to be unexpectedly logged out when refreshing the page has been resolved.
We have applied a mitigation and are seeing recovery from the issue causing some ChatGPT web users to be unexpectedly logged out when refreshing the page. We’ll continue monitoring closely to confirm the recovery is sustained.
We’re investigating an issue causing some ChatGPT web users to be unexpectedly logged out when refreshing the page.
Elevated Codex API authentication errors
Aug 20, 2026 · Resolved Aug 20, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
Some users may encounter errors when using Codex with API authentication. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT
Aug 20, 2026 · Resolved Aug 20, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have implemented a mitigation for the issue for elevated errors for Thinking Mode and Image Generation in ChatGPT/ChatGPT Work
We are investigating an issue causing some users to experience errors when using Thinking mode and Image Generation in ChatGPT.
We are investigating an issue causing some users to experience errors when using Thinking in ChatGPT.
Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right now
Aug 20, 2026 · Resolved Aug 20, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We have identified that users are experiencing login issues for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Elevated errors deploying Sites
Aug 18, 2026 · Resolved Aug 18, 2026
The issue affecting site deployments has been resolved.
We have implemented a mitigation for the issue affecting site deployments and are monitoring the results.
We have identified an issue causing elevated errors when deploying Sites. We are working to implement a mitigation.
Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free users
Aug 13, 2026 · Resolved Aug 13, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery following an issue with a downstream provider.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We are still implementing the mitigation.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
Error while creating custom RBAC roles for Enterprise users
Aug 13, 2026 · Resolved Aug 13, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We are continuing to implement the mitigation
We are still implementing the mitigation.
We are still implementing the mitigation.
+ 2 more updates
Increase in errors on API, Codex and Work Mode
Aug 11, 2026 · Resolved Aug 11, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Users unable to login to ads manager
Aug 11, 2026 · Resolved Aug 11, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have identified that users are are unable to login to ads manager. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Increased error rates
Aug 11, 2026 · Resolved Aug 11, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Go conversations
Aug 11, 2026 · Resolved Aug 11, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
Increased error rates
Aug 10, 2026 · Resolved Aug 11, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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?
Common causes of OpenAI issues include infrastructure scaling challenges, regional cloud provider problems, API gateway overload, and deployment errors. Monitor this page to stay informed, and consider implementing automatic failover with Bifrost to maintain uptime during OpenAI incidents.
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OpenAI Models & Pricing
OpenAI offers 150 models across 7 modes (94 chat, 23 responses, 14 realtime, 7 image generation, 5 audio transcription, 4 embedding, 3 audio speech)