How often does ChatGPT have outages?

ChatGPT has had 25 reported incidents recently. Visit apistatuscheck.com/incidents/chatgpt for the complete outage history with timelines and resolution details.

ChatGPT Outage History

Q: What was the last ChatGPT outage?

The most recent ChatGPT incident was "Elevated errors with search in Dots, ChatGPT Work, and certain ChatGPT thinking experiences" on October 30, 2026. It was classified as minor impact and is currently resolved.

25 incidents reported. Data sourced from the official ChatGPT status page.

Total Incidents

Major/Critical

Minor

Resolved

October 2026

Elevated errors with search in Dots, ChatGPT Work, and certain ChatGPT thinking experiences

minor

Oct 30, 07:38 PM→Oct 30, 09:14 PMresolved

Oct 30, 09:14 PM

resolved — All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.

Oct 30, 07:38 PM

investigating — We’re aware of issues affecting search in Dots, ChatGPT Work, and some ChatGPT thinking experiences. We’re investigating and will share updates here.

Elevated errors for GPT Image 2 API image edits

minor

Oct 30, 02:35 PM→Oct 30, 06:36 PMresolved

Oct 30, 06:36 PM

resolved — All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.

Oct 30, 04:06 PM

monitoring — We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.

Oct 30, 02:35 PM

identified — We are experiencing elevated errors for some GPT Image 2 API image edit requests. We have identified the issue and are working on a fix

6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance

minor

Oct 27, 03:02 PM→Oct 27, 04:20 PMresolved

Oct 27, 04:20 PM

resolved — All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.

Oct 27, 03:40 PM

monitoring — We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.

Oct 27, 03:02 PM

investigating — We’re investigating a potential issue for the listed services and checking how it affects users. We’ll share an update when we know more.

Elevated error rates for most hosted Code Reviews and Security Reviews on private GitHub repositories

none

Oct 27, 08:00 AM→Oct 27, 08:30 AMresolved

Oct 27, 01:54 PM

resolved — The issue is now resolved.

Oct 27, 08:21 AM

monitoring — We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.

Oct 27, 08:00 AM

investigating — We’re investigating a potential issue for the listed services and checking how it affects users. We’ll share an update when we know more.

Elevated error rates for Ads POST requests

minor

Oct 26, 06:19 PM→Oct 26, 06:30 PMresolved

Oct 26, 06:30 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 26, 06:25 PM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 26, 06:19 PM

identified — We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for POST /ads/* endpoints. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

Degraded experience with ChatGPT app connections using CIMD

minor

Oct 23, 10:52 PM→Oct 23, 11:43 PMresolved

Oct 23, 11:43 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 23, 11:17 PM

monitoring — Some ChatGPT app connections experienced failures when connecting a new app or refreshing an existing connection. The affected authentication metadata endpoint is available again, and we are monitorin...

Oct 23, 11:10 PM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

+1 more updates

Help Center Chat Support Degraded

none

Oct 23, 09:30 PM→Oct 23, 10:02 PMresolved

Oct 23, 10:02 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 23, 09:52 PM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 23, 09:30 PM

investigating — We’re currently experiencing degraded performance with the Help Center chat support experience. While we work to resolve the issue, we recommend contacting our Support team via email at [support@opena...

Delays in customer support responses

none

Oct 23, 03:41 AM→Oct 23, 05:58 AMresolved

Oct 23, 05:58 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 23, 05:47 AM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 23, 04:43 AM

identified — A fix is being implemented for the issue affecting our support systems. Customers may continue to experience delays in receiving support responses. We will provide further updates as recovery progress...

+2 more updates

New Ad Accounts failing to provision admins

minor

Oct 22, 07:36 PM→Oct 23, 12:07 AMresolved

Oct 23, 12:07 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 22, 11:45 PM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 22, 09:30 PM

identified — We have identified the issue and are working to implement the mitigation.

+1 more updates

Degraded Performance of Dots on Enterprise

minor

Oct 22, 06:51 PM→Oct 22, 08:55 PMresolved

Oct 22, 08:55 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 22, 06:59 PM

identified — Our teams have identified the issue and are actively implementing a mitigation. At this time the majority of impact is affecting enterprise customers.

Oct 22, 06:51 PM

investigating — Users are experiencing failures sending messages to dots.

Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors

minor

Oct 22, 02:18 AM→Oct 22, 08:50 AMresolved

Oct 22, 08:50 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 22, 02:42 AM

monitoring — This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 22, 02:18 AM

investigating — This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

Elevated FedRAMP API error rates for Astra and Sol

minor

Oct 21, 02:17 PM→Oct 21, 07:34 PMresolved

Oct 21, 07:34 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 21, 05:04 PM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 21, 05:03 PM

investigating — We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

+1 more updates

Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests

minor

Oct 21, 03:34 PM→Oct 21, 04:44 PMresolved

Oct 21, 04:44 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 21, 03:47 PM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 21, 03:34 PM

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

Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs

minor

Oct 21, 02:26 AM→Oct 21, 03:28 AMresolved

Oct 21, 02:48 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 21, 02:27 AM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 21, 02:26 AM

investigating — We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

Authentication errors for some users

major

Oct 21, 10:36 PM→Oct 20, 05:35 PMresolved

Oct 21, 10:36 PM

resolved — On October 20, from 9:35 to 10:35 a.m. PDT, some users near Illinois experienced authentication errors with the API, ChatGPT, and Codex. We rolled back a configuration change, and service was restored...

Oct 21, 10:36 PM

investigating — Some users near Illinois experienced authentication errors with the API, ChatGPT, and Codex.

File Download errors

minor

Oct 19, 01:31 PM→Oct 19, 02:14 PMresolved

Oct 19, 02:14 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 19, 01:31 PM

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

Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API

minor

Oct 14, 05:00 PM→Oct 16, 10:44 AMresolved

Oct 16, 10:44 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 15, 10:36 PM

monitoring — We have deployed a fix and are monitoring recovery. Costs data in the Compliance API remains delayed while we process the backlog. We will provide further updates as processing catches up.

Oct 14, 08:00 PM

identified — We have identified an issue causing delays in publishing organization cost data through the Costs API. A fix is in progress and currently undergoing testing. API and ChatGPT usage are not affected, an...

+2 more updates

Widespread feature degradation

major

Oct 15, 04:29 PM→Oct 15, 06:56 PMresolved

Oct 15, 06:56 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 15, 05:13 PM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 15, 04:35 PM

investigating — We are investigating widespread feature degradation, including issues affecting logins and signups in the ChatGPT iOS/Android apps. We will provide updates as we learn more.

+1 more updates

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

minor

Oct 14, 10:18 AM→Oct 14, 10:58 AMresolved

Oct 14, 10:58 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 14, 10:40 AM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 14, 10:18 AM

investigating — We are investigating limited availability when using gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst in the API.

Degraded performance in Codex and ChatGPT Work

minor

Oct 14, 07:05 AM→Oct 14, 09:53 AMresolved

Oct 14, 09:53 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 14, 09:19 AM

identified — We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are still implementing the mitigation.

Oct 14, 07:05 AM

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

Degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode

minor

Oct 13, 08:10 AM→Oct 13, 04:36 PMresolved

Oct 13, 04:36 PM

resolved — We have resolved the issue causing degraded performance with GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex and ChatGPT Work.

Oct 13, 09:30 AM

monitoring — We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Oct 13, 08:22 AM

investigating — We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

+2 more updates

Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API

minor

Oct 9, 05:23 PM→Oct 12, 04:02 PMresolved

Oct 12, 04:02 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 9, 10:03 PM

monitoring — We have implemented a mitigation, and delayed Costs data is now processing through the Compliance API. Some customers may continue to see incomplete Costs data while the backlog catches up. We expect ...

Oct 9, 06:46 PM

identified — Some customers may continue to experience delayed Costs data through the Compliance API. ChatGPT usage and API Platform requests are not affected, and other reporting channels remain available. We hav...

+2 more updates

Some ChatGPT content may be unavailable on Android

major

Oct 9, 09:00 PM→Oct 10, 12:26 AMresolved

Oct 10, 12:26 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 9, 09:00 PM

identified — We have identified an issue affecting the ChatGPT Android app where users may see “This content is unavailable in this version of the app” instead of certain content. A fix is rolling out gradually in...

Workspace admins may be unable to manage plugins

major

Oct 9, 09:48 PM→Oct 9, 11:26 PMresolved

Oct 9, 11:26 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Oct 9, 10:52 PM

monitoring — We are seeing recovery in workspace administrators’ ability to view and manage plugin availability and settings. We are monitoring to ensure service remains stable.

Oct 9, 09:48 PM

investigating — We are investigating an issue affecting some ChatGPT workspace administrators’ ability to view and manage plugin availability and settings. Some users may also see plugins as unavailable. We will prov...