OpenAI official API status and incident history
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- Chat CompletionsOperational
- ResponsesOperational
- Codex APIOperational
Full history
Titles and updates are quoted from the official page.
2026-11 1
- Degraded11-10 07:08 – 07:50 · lasted 43 min
Elevated Errors On API
AffectedChat CompletionsResponsesAgentsAudioBatch+9
Official incident page2 official updates
All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
2026-10 9
- Degraded10-27 23:02 – 10-28 00:20 · lasted 1h 18m
6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance
AffectedChat CompletionsResponsesBatch
Official incident page3 official updates
All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.
We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.
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.
- Degraded10-22 10:18 – 16:50 · lasted 6h 32m
Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors
AffectedResponsesConversations
Official incident page3 official updates
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- Degraded10-21 23:34 – 10-22 00:44 · lasted 1h 9m
Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests
AffectedChat CompletionsResponses
Official incident page3 official updates
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- Degraded10-21 10:26 – 10:48 · lasted 22 min
Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs
AffectedChat CompletionsCodex APIResponsesAgentAgentsAudio+27
Official incident page - Partial outage10-21 00:35 – 01:35 · lasted 1h 0m
Authentication errors for some users
AffectedCodex APICLICodex WebLogin+2
Official incident page2 official updates
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.
Some users near Illinois experienced authentication errors with the API, ChatGPT, and Codex.
- Degraded10-19 21:31 – 22:14 · lasted 42 min
File Download errors
AffectedResponsesFile uploadsFilesImage Generation+1
Official incident page - Degraded10-13 16:10 – 10-14 00:36 · lasted 8h 27m
Degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode
AffectedCodex APICLIChatGPT WorkCodex Web+1
Official incident page - Degraded10-06 13:00 – 10-07 01:50 · lasted 12h 50m
Errors processing large PDFs in the Responses API
AffectedResponses
Official incident page - Degraded10-01 01:05 – 04:35 · lasted 3h 30m
Elevated latency for some API requests
AffectedChat CompletionsResponses
Official incident page
2026-09 6
- Degraded09-30 01:52 – 07:14 · lasted 5h 21m
Elevated errors across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API including the Agents API
AffectedChat CompletionsCodex APIResponsesAgentAgentsAudio+24
Official incident page - Major outage09-26 06:58 – 07:54 · lasted 56 min
Issues with Codex
AffectedCodex APICLICodex WebVS Code extension
Official incident page - Degraded09-18 04:20 – 05:20 · lasted 1h 0m
We are seeing elevated error rates across API models
AffectedChat CompletionsResponsesAudioBatchEmbeddings+6
Official incident page - Degraded09-11 17:08 – 19:21 · lasted 2h 13m
Elevated errors for GPT-5.6 Sol on the API
AffectedChat CompletionsResponses
Official incident page - Degraded09-03 22:58 – 09-04 00:55 · lasted 1h 57m
Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex
AffectedCodex APIAgentCLIChatGPT Work+14
Official incident page - Degraded09-01 06:27 – 09-02 03:05 · lasted 20h 38m
Elevated latency in the Responses API
AffectedResponses
Official incident page
2026-08 1
- Degraded08-21 00:58 – 01:15 · lasted 17 min
Elevated Codex API authentication errors
AffectedCodex API
Official incident page