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 "Deep Research requests are erroring for LATAM users" on March 9, 2026. It was classified as minor 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

March 2026

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

Codex unresponsive

minor

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

Mar 9, 11:23 PM

resolved

Mar 9, 09:30 PM

monitoring

Mar 9, 09:29 PM

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

Elevated errors in ChatGPT file uploads

minor

Mar 3, 04:46 PM→Mar 3, 10:51 PMresolved

Mar 3, 10:51 PM

resolved

Mar 3, 05:11 PM

monitoring

Mar 3, 04:46 PM

identified

Users may experience elevated error rate in Codex

minor

Mar 3, 01:50 AM→Mar 3, 01:52 AMresolved

Mar 3, 01:52 AM

resolved

Mar 3, 01:50 AM

investigating

File uploads and file processing failing

minor

Mar 2, 03:30 PM→Mar 2, 05:14 PMresolved

Mar 2, 05:14 PM

resolved

Mar 2, 04:47 PM

identified

Mar 2, 03:30 PM

investigating

Errors in Sora API

minor

Mar 2, 03:59 PM→Mar 2, 05:09 PMresolved

Mar 2, 05:09 PM

resolved

Mar 2, 03:59 PM

investigating

Increased Authentication Failures Affecting Some Users

minor

Mar 1, 06:10 AM→Mar 2, 02:08 AMresolved

Mar 2, 02:08 AM

resolved

Mar 1, 07:29 AM

monitoring

Mar 1, 06:10 AM

investigating

Issues with API Platform Audit Logs

none

Mar 4, 08:55 PM→Feb 19, 08:00 AMresolved

Mar 4, 08:55 PM

resolved

February 2026

Issue with some ChatGPT Apps

major

Feb 26, 02:03 PM→Feb 26, 03:57 PMresolved

Feb 26, 03:57 PM

resolved

Feb 26, 03:30 PM

monitoring

Feb 26, 02:03 PM

identified

Artifact generation (asking the model to generate a spreadsheet or slideshow) on ChatGPT is down for all users.

minor

Feb 25, 08:32 PM→Feb 25, 09:05 PMresolved

Feb 25, 09:27 PM

resolved

Feb 25, 08:32 PM

investigating

Elevated Error Rate for ChatGPT Conversations for Business and Enterprise Customers

minor

Feb 23, 03:33 PM→Feb 23, 04:09 PMresolved

Feb 23, 04:09 PM

resolved

Feb 23, 03:58 PM

monitoring

Feb 23, 03:33 PM

investigating

Increased latency in ChatGPT for some users

minor

Feb 20, 10:00 PM→Feb 20, 10:44 PMresolved

Feb 20, 10:44 PM

resolved

Feb 20, 10:31 PM

monitoring

Feb 20, 10:27 PM

investigating

+1 more updates

Sora 2 Degraded Performance

minor

Feb 18, 03:34 PM→Feb 18, 04:40 PMresolved

Feb 18, 04:40 PM

resolved

Feb 18, 04:29 PM

monitoring

Feb 18, 04:15 PM

investigating

+1 more updates

Shopping Research Feature Down

critical

Feb 16, 08:48 PM→Feb 16, 09:12 PMresolved

Feb 16, 09:12 PM

resolved

Feb 16, 08:55 PM

monitoring

Feb 16, 08:48 PM

identified

Increased error rates on Codex Cloud

minor

Feb 16, 05:27 PM→Feb 16, 05:47 PMresolved

Feb 16, 05:47 PM

resolved

Feb 16, 05:41 PM

monitoring

Feb 16, 05:27 PM

identified

Delays in Support Email Processing

none

Feb 14, 06:07 PM→Feb 14, 08:44 PMresolved

Feb 14, 08:44 PM

resolved

Feb 14, 06:30 PM

monitoring

Feb 14, 06:07 PM

investigating

High errors with image generation

minor

Feb 13, 08:11 AM→Feb 13, 08:59 AMresolved

Feb 14, 04:24 AM

resolved

Feb 14, 01:35 AM

investigating

Feb 13, 08:59 AM

resolved

+2 more updates

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