OpenAI Outage History

Past incidents and downtime events

Complete history of OpenAI outages, incidents, and service disruptions. Showing 25 most recent incidents.

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June 2026(13 incidents)

minorresolvedJun 7, 07:19 PM — Resolved Jun 7, 07:25 PM

Disruption in service availabilty for Go users

4 updates

resolvedJun 8, 07:40 AM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

investigatingJun 8, 07:21 AM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

resolvedJun 7, 07:25 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

identifiedJun 7, 07:19 PM

We have identified that Go users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

minorresolvedJun 7, 03:08 PM — Resolved Jun 7, 06:06 PM

Disruption in service availabilty for Free and Go users

2 updates

resolvedJun 7, 06:06 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

identifiedJun 7, 03:08 PM

We have identified the issue for the listed services. We are currently working on a mitigation.

noneresolvedJun 5, 01:26 PM — Resolved Jun 5, 04:09 PM

Some users may experience issues accessing OpenAI accounts

10 updates

resolvedJun 6, 06:16 AM

Incorrectly suspended users have been restored access and received an email about their account and subscription information, if relevant. Impacted services have recovered.

monitoringJun 5, 09:19 PM

The team is uncovering some additional impacted users and is still working through related subscription and credit impacts for affected users. Impacted users will be receiving an email shortly.

monitoringJun 5, 08:53 PM

All users impacted should have received an email with more information. The team is monitoring for additional changes.

monitoringJun 5, 07:47 PM

The team is still working through related subscription and credit impacts for affected users. Impacted users will be receiving an email shortly.

monitoringJun 5, 07:09 PM

We’ve restored account access for users. The team is working through related subscription and credit impacts for affected users.

resolvedJun 5, 04:09 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

identifiedJun 5, 03:19 PM

An issue caused some user accounts to be incorrectly suspended. We’re restoring account access and working through related subscription and credit impacts for affected users.

identifiedJun 5, 02:52 PM

We are still implementing the mitigation.

identifiedJun 5, 02:20 PM

We have identified the issue impacting account access for some users, and we are working on a fix.

investigatingJun 5, 01:26 PM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

minorresolvedJun 5, 05:59 PM — Resolved Jun 5, 07:04 PM

Voice mode availability impacted

4 updates

resolvedJun 5, 07:04 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

monitoringJun 5, 07:04 PM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

investigatingJun 5, 06:04 PM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

identifiedJun 5, 05:59 PM

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

minorresolvedJun 5, 02:48 PM — Resolved Jun 5, 03:58 PM

Users unable to sign in using Microsoft personal accounts

3 updates

resolvedJun 5, 03:58 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

monitoringJun 5, 03:24 PM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

investigatingJun 5, 02:48 PM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

minorresolvedJun 5, 02:11 PM — Resolved Jun 5, 03:37 PM

Elevated error rates for Free users in conversations

4 updates

resolvedJun 5, 03:37 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

monitoringJun 5, 03:28 PM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

identifiedJun 5, 02:36 PM

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

investigatingJun 5, 02:11 PM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

minorresolvedJun 4, 07:12 PM — Resolved Jun 4, 07:52 PM

Image API requests failing with 401s

3 updates

resolvedJun 4, 07:52 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

monitoringJun 4, 07:36 PM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

identifiedJun 4, 07:12 PM

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

minorresolvedJun 4, 02:57 AM — Resolved Jun 4, 04:37 AM

Increased latency for Codex compaction for a subset of users

2 updates

resolvedJun 4, 04:37 AM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

identifiedJun 4, 02:57 AM

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

majorresolvedJun 3, 04:58 AM — Resolved Jun 3, 11:09 AM

Elevated error rates on Codex, ChatGPT and Responses API

14 updates

resolvedJun 3, 11:09 AM

monitoringJun 3, 10:21 AM

monitoringJun 3, 09:20 AM

monitoringJun 3, 07:55 AM

monitoringJun 3, 07:16 AM

investigatingJun 3, 07:11 AM

investigatingJun 3, 06:50 AM

investigatingJun 3, 06:34 AM

investigatingJun 3, 06:16 AM

investigatingJun 3, 05:42 AM

investigatingJun 3, 05:22 AM

investigatingJun 3, 05:12 AM

investigatingJun 3, 05:11 AM

investigatingJun 3, 04:58 AM

minorresolvedJun 2, 11:28 PM — Resolved Jun 3, 12:14 AM

Elevated errors for ChatGPT Pro

3 updates

resolvedJun 3, 12:14 AM

monitoringJun 2, 11:36 PM

identifiedJun 2, 11:28 PM

minorresolvedJun 2, 11:35 PM — Resolved Jun 3, 12:13 AM

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

2 updates

resolvedJun 3, 12:13 AM

monitoringJun 2, 11:35 PM

minorresolvedJun 2, 12:04 PM — Resolved Jun 2, 01:16 PM

Guest users are experiencing elevated error rate when using ChatGPT conversations.

3 updates

resolvedJun 2, 01:16 PM

monitoringJun 2, 12:47 PM

investigatingJun 2, 12:04 PM

majorresolvedJun 1, 04:26 PM — Resolved Jun 1, 05:28 PM

Decreased ChatGPT availability for Free users

3 updates

resolvedJun 1, 05:28 PM

monitoringJun 1, 04:56 PM

identifiedJun 1, 04:26 PM

May 2026(12 incidents)

minorresolvedMay 29, 01:20 PM — Resolved May 29, 01:28 PM

Users May Experience Issues Accessing ChatGPT

2 updates

resolvedMay 29, 01:28 PM

investigatingMay 29, 01:20 PM

minorresolvedMay 29, 03:18 AM — Resolved May 29, 04:58 AM

Users may encounter issues with conversations

3 updates

resolvedMay 29, 04:58 AM

monitoringMay 29, 03:29 AM

investigatingMay 29, 03:18 AM

minorresolvedMay 29, 03:12 AM — Resolved May 29, 04:57 AM

Users may encounter issues logging in or creating an account

3 updates

resolvedMay 29, 04:57 AM

monitoringMay 29, 03:28 AM

investigatingMay 29, 03:12 AM

noneresolvedMay 28, 08:46 PM — Resolved May 29, 01:29 AM

Business plan subscription checkout issues on web and mobile web

3 updates

resolvedMay 29, 01:29 AM

monitoringMay 29, 12:09 AM

investigatingMay 28, 08:46 PM

minorresolvedMay 27, 05:57 PM — Resolved May 28, 06:59 AM

Codex Context Compaction Latency

6 updates

resolvedMay 28, 06:59 AM

monitoringMay 28, 03:09 AM

identifiedMay 28, 02:31 AM

investigatingMay 28, 01:47 AM

investigatingMay 28, 12:14 AM

identifiedMay 27, 05:57 PM

minorresolvedMay 28, 09:34 AM — Resolved May 28, 05:27 AM

Subscription checkout failing

1 update

resolvedMay 28, 09:34 AM

minorresolvedMay 27, 04:24 PM — Resolved May 28, 03:59 AM

Android ChatGPT Business users having trouble switching workspaces

2 updates

resolvedMay 28, 03:59 AM

investigatingMay 27, 04:24 PM

minorresolvedMay 27, 02:47 PM — Resolved May 27, 05:12 PM

Elevated Latency and Errors on API

7 updates

resolvedMay 27, 08:06 PM

monitoringMay 27, 05:54 PM

resolvedMay 27, 05:12 PM

monitoringMay 27, 03:59 PM

identifiedMay 27, 03:45 PM

investigatingMay 27, 03:21 PM

investigatingMay 27, 02:47 PM

minorresolvedMay 26, 05:01 PM — Resolved May 27, 06:01 AM

Login issues for FedRAMP users who recently logged out

4 updates

resolvedMay 27, 04:16 PM

monitoringMay 27, 05:31 AM

identifiedMay 26, 05:02 PM

investigatingMay 26, 05:01 PM

minorresolvedMay 26, 08:27 PM — Resolved May 26, 08:30 PM

Users unable to access chat support on help center

2 updates

resolvedMay 26, 08:30 PM

identifiedMay 26, 08:27 PM

minorresolvedMay 22, 04:37 PM — Resolved May 23, 10:58 AM

Increase in users hitting Codex rate limits

4 updates

resolvedMay 23, 10:58 AM

monitoringMay 22, 07:16 PM

investigatingMay 22, 04:37 PM

minorresolvedMay 21, 10:05 PM — Resolved May 21, 11:22 PM

Elevated latency and error rates for ChatGPT 5.5 Thinking

4 updates

resolvedMay 21, 11:22 PM

monitoringMay 21, 10:57 PM

monitoringMay 21, 10:25 PM

identifiedMay 21, 10:05 PM

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