How often does OpenAI have outages?

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

What was the last OpenAI outage?

The most recent OpenAI incident was "Pinned chats are not loading on web browsers for ChatGPT" on March 20, 2026. It was classified as minor impact and is currently monitoring.

OpenAI Outage History

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

Total Incidents

Major/Critical

Minor

Resolved

March 2026

Pinned chats are not loading on web browsers for ChatGPT

minor

Mar 20, 03:00 PMmonitoring

Mar 20, 05:32 PM

monitoring

Mar 20, 03:24 PM

identified

Mar 20, 03:00 PM

investigating

Sora video generation failing

major

Mar 18, 03:46 PM→Mar 18, 07:14 PMresolved

Mar 18, 07:14 PM

resolved

Mar 18, 06:47 PM

monitoring

Mar 18, 06:32 PM

identified

+4 more updates

Excel Plugin is inaccessible for some users

minor

Mar 17, 05:26 PM→Mar 17, 06:50 PMresolved

Mar 17, 06:50 PM

resolved

Mar 17, 06:32 PM

identified

Mar 17, 06:01 PM

identified

+1 more updates

High Error rates with ChatGPT 5.4 Pro

major

Mar 17, 06:16 PM→Mar 17, 06:40 PMresolved

Mar 17, 06:40 PM

resolved

Mar 17, 06:16 PM

investigating

Elevated errors for sign-in and account creation

minor

Mar 17, 03:06 AM→Mar 17, 04:09 AMresolved

Mar 17, 04:35 PM

resolved

Mar 17, 05:21 AM

monitoring

Mar 17, 04:49 AM

identified

+3 more updates

Elevated Errors Affecting ChatGPT Free and Guest Plan Users

minor

Mar 17, 02:58 AM→Mar 17, 05:20 AMresolved

Mar 17, 05:20 AM

resolved

Mar 17, 03:55 AM

monitoring

Mar 17, 02:58 AM

identified

Responses API errors when using background mode

minor

Mar 13, 07:38 PM→Mar 13, 08:03 PMresolved

Mar 13, 08:03 PM

resolved

Mar 13, 07:38 PM

investigating

Conversation Errors for Logged out Users

minor

Mar 13, 01:48 PM→Mar 13, 03:10 PMresolved

Mar 13, 03:10 PM

resolved

Mar 13, 02:42 PM

monitoring

Mar 13, 01:48 PM

investigating

Some users seeing "No Accessible Workspaces" when attempting to login via SSO

minor

Mar 12, 07:07 PM→Mar 12, 11:29 PMresolved

Mar 12, 11:29 PM

resolved

Mar 12, 07:36 PM

monitoring

Mar 12, 07:17 PM

investigating

+1 more updates

Increased errors with ChatGPT file downloads

none

Mar 10, 11:10 PM→Mar 12, 10:15 PMresolved

Mar 12, 10:15 PM

resolved

Mar 11, 10:05 PM

monitoring

Mar 11, 04:32 PM

identified

+2 more updates

Increased errors on ChatGPT File Uploads

minor

Mar 10, 09:22 PM→Mar 12, 12:15 AMresolved

Mar 12, 12:15 AM

resolved

Mar 11, 07:56 PM

identified

Mar 11, 05:14 PM

identified

+3 more updates

Elevated login errors

minor

Mar 11, 11:12 PM→Mar 11, 11:43 PMresolved

Mar 11, 11:43 PM

resolved

Mar 11, 11:36 PM

identified

Mar 11, 11:12 PM

investigating

Elevated conversation errors for ChatGPT

minor

Mar 11, 08:11 PM→Mar 11, 09:59 PMresolved

Mar 11, 09:59 PM

resolved

Mar 11, 08:48 PM

monitoring

Mar 11, 08:11 PM

identified

Elevated error rates for Deep Research in Enterprise Workspaces

minor

Mar 11, 07:25 PM→Mar 11, 09:47 PMresolved

Mar 11, 09:47 PM

resolved

Mar 11, 09:08 PM

monitoring

Mar 11, 08:42 PM

identified

+2 more updates

Codex unresponsive

minor

Mar 9, 03:09 PM→Mar 9, 10:30 PMresolved

Mar 11, 04:17 PM

resolved

Mar 11, 05:31 AM

monitoring

Mar 11, 02:50 AM

identified

+12 more updates

Degraded performance with the Support chat

none

Mar 10, 05:10 PM→Mar 10, 11:30 PMresolved

Mar 10, 11:30 PM

resolved

Mar 10, 10:31 PM

monitoring

Mar 10, 09:38 PM

identified

+3 more updates

Deep Research requests are erroring for LATAM users

minor

Mar 9, 10:56 PM→Mar 10, 05:32 AMresolved

Mar 10, 05:32 AM

resolved

Mar 10, 01:13 AM

monitoring

Mar 10, 12:00 AM

identified

+1 more updates

Elevated conversation errors for Enterprise and Edu users

minor

Mar 9, 03:38 PM→Mar 9, 04:15 PMresolved

Mar 9, 04:15 PM

resolved

Mar 9, 03:55 PM

monitoring

Mar 9, 03:38 PM

identified

Issues with Increased Codex Usage Rate

minor

Mar 6, 06:35 PM→Mar 7, 01:00 AMresolved

Mar 7, 01:00 AM

resolved

Mar 6, 10:08 PM

identified

Mar 6, 07:20 PM

identified

+1 more updates

Login Issues

minor

Mar 7, 12:14 AM→Mar 7, 12:57 AMresolved

Mar 7, 12:57 AM

resolved

Mar 7, 12:28 AM

monitoring

Mar 7, 12:24 AM

identified

+1 more updates

Errors with Compliance API

minor

Mar 6, 11:34 PM→Mar 6, 11:59 PMresolved

Mar 6, 11:59 PM

resolved

Mar 6, 11:43 PM

monitoring

Mar 6, 11:34 PM

identified

ChatGPT Issues Sending Messages

minor

Mar 5, 06:12 PM→Mar 5, 09:49 PMresolved

Mar 5, 09:49 PM

resolved

Mar 5, 08:05 PM

monitoring

Mar 5, 07:12 PM

investigating

+1 more updates

High Error Rate in Realtime API (EU)

minor

Mar 5, 05:16 PM→Mar 5, 07:19 AMresolved

Mar 5, 05:16 PM

resolved

Mar 5, 05:16 PM

monitoring

Mar 5, 05:16 PM

identified

User may experience errors in ChatGPT

minor

Mar 5, 01:27 AM→Mar 5, 06:27 AMresolved

Mar 5, 06:27 AM

resolved

Mar 5, 01:53 AM

monitoring

Mar 5, 01:27 AM

investigating

API Error Rates

minor

Mar 5, 12:47 AM→Mar 5, 01:12 AMresolved

Mar 5, 01:12 AM

resolved

Mar 5, 01:07 AM

monitoring

Mar 5, 12:47 AM

identified

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