Outage in OpenAI ChatGPT

Account Creation Issues

Resolved Minor

April 14, 2026 - Started about 6 hours ago - Lasted 20 minutes

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced account creation issues affecting ChatGPT, APIs, Sora, and login services for 20 minutes. Users were unable to create new accounts across these platforms. The issue was identified and a mitigation was implemented to resolve the problem.

We have identified that users are experiencing account creation issues for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

Components affected

OpenAI ChatGPT ChatGPT OpenAI ChatGPT Login OpenAI ChatGPT APIs OpenAI ChatGPT Login OpenAI ChatGPT Sora OpenAI ChatGPT Login

Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

IDENTIFIED about 6 hours ago - at 04/14/2026 04:49PM

We have identified that users are experiencing account creation issues for the impacted services.

We are working on implementing a mitigation.

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