OpenAI ChatGPT Outage History

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced elevated error rates affecting image generation, ChatGPT conversations, and APIs for 1 hour. Users reported chat timeouts, failed image generation, and the system appearing to process requests without producing results. The service team identified the issue and worked on implementing a mitigation.

ChatGPT Go users experienced elevated error rates specifically affecting the 5.3 Thinking model, with users reporting "something seems to have gone wrong" messages and the service not responding to requests properly. The incident impacted multiple components including ChatGPT core functionality, APIs, file uploads, voice mode, and other features for approximately 1.3 hours. OpenAI identified the issue, implemented a mitigation, and monitored the recovery process.

OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex services experienced elevated errors and intermittent stream disconnections for 28 minutes. The incident was classified as minor, with users encountering connection issues while using these services. A mitigation was successfully applied and the services were restored to normal operation.

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced elevated errors affecting Codex gpt-5.5 usage for 2.1 hours, causing intermittent "not found" errors when users started or updated requests. Users reported that the service was not responding to messages during the incident. The issue was investigated and mitigated by the OpenAI team.

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced elevated conversation errors specifically affecting enterprise, business, and education workspaces for 5.6 hours. The issue impacted both web and ChatGPT components, preventing users in these organizational tiers from having normal conversations. OpenAI applied a mitigation and monitored the recovery to resolve the problem.

ChatGPT free users experienced errors when attempting to have conversations, with some users unable to log in during the outage. The incident affected both the web interface and ChatGPT service for 2.6 hours. OpenAI applied a mitigation and monitored the recovery to resolve the issue.

OpenAI experienced issues with the GPT-5.4-C model in Codex that affected some users for 2 hours. The incident impacted both Codex and ChatGPT services. A mitigation was applied and the service was being monitored for recovery.

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced elevated errors for conversations in Europe, affecting both web and ChatGPT components. The service disruption lasted 1.2 hours before a mitigation was applied and recovery monitoring began.

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced a 4.2-hour outage where users were unable to access ChatGPT, Codex, and the API Platform, with widespread impact across APIs, image generation, login, GPTs, deep research, web interface, voice mode, file uploads, and search functionality. The incident affected users' ability to load and use these core services. OpenAI applied mitigation measures and monitored the recovery to resolve the issue.

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.