Outage in OpenAI ChatGPT

Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs

Resolved Minor

October 20, 2026 - Started about 22 hours ago - Lasted 20 minutes

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

OpenAI experienced a minor degradation affecting ChatGPT, Codex, and a broad range of API services including voice, image generation, embeddings, fine-tuning, and login. The incident lasted approximately 20 minutes before a mitigation was applied. Engineers moved quickly from investigation to applying a fix and confirmed recovery was underway.

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

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 Chat OpenAI ChatGPT Compliance OpenAI ChatGPT Images OpenAI ChatGPT Embeddings OpenAI ChatGPT Batch OpenAI ChatGPT Fine-tuning OpenAI ChatGPT Files OpenAI ChatGPT Audio OpenAI ChatGPT Realtime OpenAI ChatGPT Responses OpenAI ChatGPT Moderations OpenAI ChatGPT Login OpenAI ChatGPT Login OpenAI ChatGPT Web OpenAI ChatGPT Search

Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

MONITORING about 22 hours ago - at 10/21/2026 02:27AM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

INVESTIGATING about 22 hours ago - at 10/21/2026 02:26AM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

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