Service comparison

OpenAI vs. ChatGPT

OpenAI vs. ChatGPT — reliability, API availability, and incident frequency head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 150 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window OpenAI ChatGPT Δ
Last 24 hours
9.10%
8.82%
+0.28 pp
Last 7 days
1.30%
1.26%
+0.04 pp
Last 30 days
19.95%
19.95%
0.00 pp
Last 90 days
59.73%
59.73%
0.00 pp

Δ is percentage-point difference (OpenAI minus ChatGPT). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

  • OpenAI

    75 total

    8 major 67 minor
    • Median resolution

      1h 40m

    • Longest outage

      264h 55m

  • ChatGPT

    75 total

    8 major 67 minor
    • Median resolution

      1h 40m

    • Longest outage

      264h 55m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

  • OpenAI logo

    OpenAI

    • Jul 10

      OpenAI website and Help Center content may be unavailable

      1h 54m

      Minor
    • Jul 9

      Users are experiencing elevated errors when selecting models

      58m

      Minor
    • Jul 7

      Elevated errors with image generation in ChatGPT

      4h 43m

      Minor
    • Jul 1

      Codex, workspace analytics, conversation search, searching for custom GPTs, ChatGPT user invites, and Compliance Log Platform download endpoint not working in FedRAMP workspaces

      9d 22h 32m

      Minor
    • Jun 27

      Issues with ChatGPT Windows desktop app

      5h 28m

      Minor
  • ChatGPT logo

    ChatGPT

    • Jul 10

      OpenAI website and Help Center content may be unavailable

      1h 54m

      Minor
    • Jul 9

      Users are experiencing elevated errors when selecting models

      58m

      Minor
    • Jul 7

      Elevated errors with image generation in ChatGPT

      4h 43m

      Minor
    • Jul 1

      Codex, workspace analytics, conversation search, searching for custom GPTs, ChatGPT user invites, and Compliance Log Platform download endpoint not working in FedRAMP workspaces

      9d 22h 32m

      Minor
    • Jun 27

      Issues with ChatGPT Windows desktop app

      5h 28m

      Minor

Bottom line

It's a tie

OpenAI and ChatGPT are evenly matched on uptime.

OpenAI posted 59.73% vs. 59.73% for ChatGPT (Δ 0.00 pp). Incidents: 75 vs. 75 (0).

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