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OperationalUpdated 2026-11-12 22:00
  • Chat CompletionsOperational
  • ResponsesOperational
  • Codex APIOperational
Last 90 days 20 days with incidents17 incidents69 hours in total
  1. 2026-08-15 No incidents
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2026-08-15Before recordsNo incidentsNoticeDegradedPartial outageMajor outage2026-11-12

Incidents before 2026-08-13 are incomplete

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

    2 official updates
    1. Resolved11-10 07:50

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

    2. Identified11-10 07:08

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

    Official incident page

2026-10 9

  • Degraded10-27 23:02 – 10-28 00:20 · lasted 1h 18m

    6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance

    AffectedChat CompletionsResponsesBatch

    3 official updates
    1. Resolved10-28 00:20

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

    2. Monitoring10-27 23:40

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

    3. Investigating10-27 23:02

      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.

    Official incident page
  • Degraded10-22 10:18 – 16:50 · lasted 6h 32m

    Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors

    AffectedResponsesConversations

    3 official updates
    1. Resolved10-22 16:50

      All impacted services have now fully recovered.

    2. Monitoring10-22 10:42

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

    3. Investigating10-22 10:18

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

    Official incident page
  • Degraded10-21 23:34 – 10-22 00:44 · lasted 1h 9m

    Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests

    AffectedChat CompletionsResponses

    3 official updates
    1. Resolved10-22 00:44

      All impacted services have now fully recovered.

    2. Monitoring10-21 23:47

      We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

    3. Identified10-21 23:34

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

    Official incident page
  • 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

    2 official updates
    1. Resolved10-21 01:35

      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.

    2. Investigating10-21 00:35

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

    Official incident page
  • 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