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.
- All 24 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
Elevated errors with image generation
Aug 5, 2026 · Resolved Aug 5, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We are investigating elevated errors affecting image generation. Some users may experience failed image generation requests. We are working to reduce the errors and will provide another update as we learn more.
Issues with Custom GPT actions
Aug 5, 2026 · Resolved Aug 5, 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 still implementing the mitigation.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations with files
Aug 5, 2026 · Resolved Aug 5, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Error rates affecting ChatGPT conversations that use files and images have improved. We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
Elevated ChatGPT conversation errors affecting Plus, Pro, Business, and Edu users
Aug 4, 2026 · Resolved Aug 4, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We are investigating elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversations. Some users may experience failed or interrupted responses, and some conversation turns may not be saved. The issue is affecting users across Plus, Pro, Business and Edu ChatGPT plans.
Enterprise & Education Chat Errors
Jul 31, 2026 · Resolved Jul 31, 2026
This is now resolved.
The issue has been mitigated.
We have identified that some ChatGPT Business and Education users are experiencing elevated errors when starting or continuing conversations. We are working on implementing a mitigation and will provide another update as soon as we have more information.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversations
Jul 30, 2026 · Resolved Jul 30, 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 elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Elevated error rates with the invalid_prompt error code
Jul 29, 2026 · Resolved Jul 29, 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 Image Generation Error Rate in ChatGPT
Jul 28, 2026 · Resolved Jul 28, 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.
Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT
Jul 27, 2026 · Resolved Jul 27, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT
Jul 21, 2026 · Resolved Jul 22, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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.
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
+ 10 more updates
We’re seeing elevated latency, timeouts, and interrupted streaming across gpt 5.1 mini model and gpt 4.1 mini
Jul 27, 2026 · Resolved Jul 27, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversations
Jul 25, 2026 · Resolved Jul 27, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Mitigation has been implemented, and we are monitoring the recovery of ChatGPT conversations.
We have identified the source of intermittent errors affecting some ChatGPT conversations and are working to mitigate the issue. Error rates have decreased, but some users may continue to experience failures.
We are investigating intermittent errors that may prevent some users from loading or continuing conversations in ChatGPT. The current period of impact began around 1:00 PM PT.
Elevated error rates
Jul 25, 2026 · Resolved Jul 25, 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.
Elevated error rates
Jul 25, 2026 · Resolved Jul 25, 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 Error Rates
Jul 23, 2026 · Resolved Jul 24, 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.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
+ 8 more updates
Elevated Errors in Codex Review
Jul 24, 2026 · Resolved Jul 24, 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 API error rates and latency on gpt-image-2 model
Jul 23, 2026 · Resolved Jul 24, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Some users may experience elevated error rates in ChatGPT
Jul 23, 2026 · Resolved Jul 23, 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.
Elevated errors for Workspace Agent
Jul 22, 2026 · Resolved Jul 22, 2026
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
Elevated Errors Affecting File Uploads and Image Generation
Jul 22, 2026 · Resolved Jul 22, 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 are investigating the issue for the listed services.
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
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 147 models across 7 modes (91 chat, 23 responses, 14 realtime, 7 image generation, 5 audio transcription, 4 embedding, 3 audio speech)