Service comparison

OpenAI vs. Claude AI

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

Last 90 days · 58 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

  • OpenAI logo

    OpenAI

    openai.com

    Online
    • 90-day uptime

      100.00%

    • Incidents (90d)

      0

      0 major · 0 minor

    • Median resolution

    • Longest outage

  • Claude AI logo

    Claude AI

    claude.ai

    Online
    • 90-day uptime

      96.78%

    • Incidents (90d)

      58

      17 major · 41 minor

    • Median resolution

      46m

    • Longest outage

      18h 3m

Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window OpenAI Claude AI Δ
Last 24 hours
100.00%
98.82%
+1.18 pp
Last 7 days
100.00%
83.49%
+16.51 pp
Last 30 days
100.00%
91.68%
+8.32 pp
Last 90 days
100.00%
96.78%
+3.22 pp

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

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

  • OpenAI

    0 total

    0 major 0 minor
    • Median resolution

    • Longest outage

  • Claude AI

    58 total

    17 major 41 minor
    • Median resolution

      46m

    • Longest outage

      18h 3m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

  • OpenAI logo

    OpenAI

    No incidents recorded in the last 90 days.

  • Claude AI logo

    Claude AI

    • May 9

      Claude Code on the Web Partial Outage

      17m

      Minor
    • May 9

      Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.1

      25m

      Minor
    • May 8

      Claude Code IDE extension unable to load on Windows

      1h 53m

      Major
    • May 8

      Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.7

      24m

      Minor
    • May 8

      Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 4.6

      7m

      Minor

Bottom line

OpenAI wins

OpenAI edges out on 90-day uptime.

OpenAI posted 100.00% vs. 96.78% for Claude AI (Δ +3.22 pp). Incidents: 0 vs. 58 (-58).

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