Outage in OpenAI ChatGPT

ChatGPT availability degraded for free and logged out users

Resolved Minor

January 26, 2026 - Started 3 months ago - Lasted about 1 hour

Incident Report

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

Components affected

OpenAI ChatGPT ChatGPT OpenAI ChatGPT APIs OpenAI ChatGPT File uploads OpenAI ChatGPT Voice mode OpenAI ChatGPT GPTs OpenAI ChatGPT Image Generation OpenAI ChatGPT Deep Research OpenAI ChatGPT Operator OpenAI ChatGPT Codex OpenAI ChatGPT Compliance OpenAI ChatGPT Login OpenAI ChatGPT Web OpenAI ChatGPT Search

Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

MONITORING 3 months ago - at 01/26/2026 05:18PM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

INVESTIGATING 3 months ago - at 01/26/2026 04:46PM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

IDENTIFIED 3 months ago - at 01/26/2026 04:19PM

We have identified that logged out and free users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.

We are working on implementing a mitigation.

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