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 "Enterprise & Education Chat Errors" on July 31, 2026. It was classified as none impact and is currently resolved.

OpenAI Outage History

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

Total Incidents

Major/Critical

Minor

Resolved

July 2026

Enterprise & Education Chat Errors

none

Jul 31, 09:04 AM→Jul 31, 09:28 AMresolved

Jul 31, 09:28 AM

resolved — This is now resolved.

Jul 31, 09:06 AM

monitoring — The issue has been mitigated.

Jul 31, 09:05 AM

identified — 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 provi...

+1 more updates

Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversations

minor

Jul 30, 02:35 PM→Jul 30, 04:01 PMresolved

Jul 30, 04:01 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 30, 03:26 PM

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

Jul 30, 02:53 PM

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

+1 more updates

Elevated error rates with the invalid_prompt error code

minor

Jul 29, 12:55 AM→Jul 29, 02:20 AMresolved

Jul 29, 02:20 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 29, 01:39 AM

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

Jul 29, 12:55 AM

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

Elevated Image Generation Error Rate in ChatGPT

minor

Jul 28, 02:39 PM→Jul 28, 03:15 PMresolved

Jul 28, 03:15 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 28, 03:13 PM

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

Jul 28, 02:39 PM

identified — 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

minor

Jul 27, 07:05 PM→Jul 27, 08:24 PMresolved

Jul 27, 08:24 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 27, 07:05 PM

investigating — 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

major

Jul 21, 10:36 AM→Jul 22, 02:50 AMresolved

Jul 27, 07:04 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 27, 04:52 PM

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

Jul 27, 02:04 PM

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

+12 more updates

We’re seeing elevated latency, timeouts, and interrupted streaming across gpt 5.1 mini model and gpt 4.1 mini

minor

Jul 27, 06:06 PM→Jul 27, 05:30 PMresolved

Jul 27, 08:52 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 27, 06:06 PM

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

Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversations

minor

Jul 25, 10:09 PM→Jul 27, 04:32 PMresolved

Jul 27, 04:32 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 25, 11:57 PM

monitoring — Mitigation has been implemented, and we are monitoring the recovery of ChatGPT conversations.

Jul 25, 11:16 PM

identified — 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 f...

+1 more updates

Elevated error rates

minor

Jul 25, 11:35 AM→Jul 25, 11:57 AMresolved

Jul 25, 11:57 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 25, 11:46 AM

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

Jul 25, 11:35 AM

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

Elevated error rates

minor

Jul 25, 09:17 AM→Jul 25, 11:08 AMresolved

Jul 25, 11:08 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 25, 10:02 AM

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

Jul 25, 09:17 AM

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

Elevated Error Rates

minor

Jul 23, 03:36 PM→Jul 24, 07:33 PMresolved

Jul 24, 07:33 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 24, 11:34 AM

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

Jul 24, 10:06 AM

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

+10 more updates

Elevated Errors in Codex Review

minor

Jul 24, 07:55 AM→Jul 24, 09:35 AMresolved

Jul 24, 09:35 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 24, 08:11 AM

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

Jul 24, 07:55 AM

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

Elevated API error rates and latency on gpt-image-2 model

minor

Jul 23, 11:56 PM→Jul 24, 12:09 AMresolved

Jul 24, 12:09 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 23, 11:56 PM

identified — 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

minor

Jul 23, 05:56 PM→Jul 23, 08:41 PMresolved

Jul 23, 08:41 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 23, 06:22 PM

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

Jul 23, 05:56 PM

identified — 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

minor

Jul 22, 02:48 PM→Jul 22, 04:09 PMresolved

Jul 22, 04:09 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 22, 03:49 PM

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

Jul 22, 02:48 PM

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

Elevated Errors Affecting File Uploads and Image Generation

minor

Jul 22, 07:32 AM→Jul 22, 02:39 PMresolved

Jul 22, 02:39 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 22, 09:44 AM

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

Jul 22, 09:26 AM

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

+2 more updates

Elevated errors for API image generation

major

Jul 21, 07:33 PM→Jul 21, 10:19 PMresolved

Jul 21, 10:19 PM

resolved — Image generation functionality has fully recovered, and error rates have returned to normal levels.

Jul 21, 08:26 PM

monitoring — We have applied mitigations and are seeing error rates return to normal levels. We are monitoring the recovery.

Jul 21, 07:33 PM

investigating — We are investigating elevated error rates affecting image generation requests via the API. We are working to restore normal service.

Issues with logins and signups

major

Jul 21, 06:36 PM→Jul 21, 07:00 PMresolved

Jul 21, 07:00 PM

resolved — All affected API Platform functionality has now fully recovered.

Jul 21, 06:56 PM

monitoring — The affected API Platform functionality has recovered, including login, account creation, organization management, and dashboard access. We are monitoring the recovery.

Jul 21, 06:41 PM

identified — We are seeing recovery for API Platform login functionality. Account creation, organization management, and dashboard access remain affected. We are continuing to investigate.

+1 more updates

Elevated errors for GitHub-dependent ChatGPT and Codex workflows

minor

Jul 20, 12:34 AM→Jul 20, 03:34 AMresolved

Jul 20, 03:34 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 20, 03:25 AM

monitoring — We are monitoring the recovery.

Jul 20, 02:52 AM

investigating — Users may experience failures or delays in ChatGPT and Codex workflows that depend on GitHub. This mostly should impact Codex web and code review for PRs on Github. This is related to an active GitHub...

+3 more updates

Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT

major

Jul 19, 02:49 PM→Jul 19, 05:05 PMresolved

Jul 19, 05:05 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 19, 04:55 PM

monitoring — Service has been restored and we are continuing to monitor.

Jul 19, 03:04 PM

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

+2 more updates

Some users are unable to access Codex

minor

Jul 18, 08:05 AM→Jul 18, 12:58 PMresolved

Jul 18, 12:58 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 18, 08:31 AM

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

Jul 18, 08:05 AM

identified — We have identified an issue causing some users to receive access-denied errors when using the Codex desktop app and CLI.

New ChatGPT App Not Available For Enterprise Users Without Codex Permissions

major

Jul 17, 03:32 PM→Jul 18, 05:45 AMresolved

Jul 18, 08:24 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 18, 07:43 AM

identified — We have identified that this issue has recurred for some Enterprise users. We are working to resolve this.

Jul 18, 05:45 AM

resolved — A fix has been released. Please update to the latest version of the ChatGPT app to receive the fix.

+1 more updates

Codex 5.6-sol Experiencing Increased Server-Overload Errors

none

Jul 17, 05:19 PM→Jul 17, 08:42 PMresolved

Jul 17, 08:42 PM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 17, 07:07 PM

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

Jul 17, 05:19 PM

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

Elevated errors for Github connector

minor

Jul 16, 10:54 PM→Jul 17, 12:17 AMresolved

Jul 17, 12:17 AM

resolved — All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Jul 16, 11:12 PM

identified — We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors when using the Github connector. Github is experiencing system-wide service-availability issues. We are monitoring their recovery: <http...

Jul 16, 10:54 PM

identified — We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors when using the Github connector. We are working on implementing a mitigation.