Is OpenAI down today?

Check the status badge at the top of this page for the current status. Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes and cross-references with user reports to give you the most accurate picture.

How often does OpenAI go down?

Based on our 90-day data, we've detected 81 incidents, of which 12 were major or critical. The median resolution time is 2h 7m.

How are outages detected?

Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes from multiple global locations. Crowdsourced user reports provide an additional early-warning signal, often surfacing issues before the official monitors catch them.

Is it down for everyone or just me?

The outage map and region breakdown help answer this. If reports are concentrated in one area it may be regional; if hotspots appear globally it's a widespread outage. Submit your own report to help others understand the scope.

What does "never acknowledged" mean?

"Never acknowledged" means Pulsetic detected a real service disruption, confirmed by multiple user reports, but the official status page never posted an incident for it. This is one of the core reasons teams use third-party monitoring alongside official status pages.

ACTIVE INCIDENT DETECTED

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Pulsetic detects outages before the provider officially reports them. Monitoring since Apr 2026 · 135 incidents caught

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MINOR · IDENTIFIED

Unexpected GPT-5.6 Terra responses

Started 3 weeks ago · Aug 14, 2026 · 10:22 PM UTC

We are investigating an issue affecting some customers using GPT-5.6 Terra. Affected requests may intermittently return incomplete or malformed responses, or include unexpected content. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

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Last 90 days

90-Day Health Summary

Total Incidents

81

Since Apr 2026
Major / Critical

12

12 high-impact incidents
Minor Incidents

69

Avg. 0.8 per day
Median Resolution

2h 7m

P95: 42h 22m

OpenAI Response Time, ms

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Recent Outage History

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Incident	Started	Duration	Impact	Status	Link
Users in APAC region may face increased error in ChatGPT, Work, image generation, file upload, Voice, and Codex Cloud	Sep 4, 2026 · 7:00 AM	3h 46m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex	Sep 3, 2026 · 2:58 PM	1h 57m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
ChatGPT Work Mode High Error Rates	Sep 3, 2026 · 12:04 AM	6m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Elevated errors creating new accounts	Sep 2, 2026 · 6:13 PM	31m	None	Resolved	Details →
Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free and Go plans	Sep 1, 2026 · 12:38 AM	21m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Elevated latency in the Responses API	Aug 31, 2026 · 10:27 PM	20h 37m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency	Aug 31, 2026 · 3:04 PM	5h 23m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Users may experience an increase in error rates in Workspace Agents and ChatGPT Work on Web and Mobile	Aug 27, 2026 · 6:00 PM	4h 14m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Unexpected logouts for some ChatGPT web users	Aug 21, 2026 · 7:48 PM	3h 26m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Elevated Codex API authentication errors	Aug 20, 2026 · 4:58 PM	53m	Minor	Resolved	Details →

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Common questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Is OpenAI down today?

Check the status badge at the top of this page for the current status. Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes and cross-references with user reports to give you the most accurate picture.
How often does OpenAI go down?

Based on our 90-day data, we've detected 81 incidents, of which 12 were major or critical. The median resolution time is 2h 7m.
How are outages detected?

Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes from multiple global locations. Crowdsourced user reports provide an additional early-warning signal, often surfacing issues before the official monitors catch them.
Is it down for everyone or just me?

The outage map and region breakdown help answer this. If reports are concentrated in one area it may be regional; if hotspots appear globally it's a widespread outage. Submit your own report to help others understand the scope.
What does "never acknowledged" mean?

"Never acknowledged" means Pulsetic detected a real service disruption, confirmed by multiple user reports, but the official status page never posted an incident for it. This is one of the core reasons teams use third-party monitoring alongside official status pages.

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