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 95 incidents, of which 12 were major or critical. The median resolution time is 1h 44m.

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

OpenAI is
experiencing issues.

Pulsetic detects outages before the provider officially reports them. Monitoring since Apr 2026 · 123 incidents caught

Last checked: 3 min ago · 1 user report (24h) · Trusted by 30,000+ teams

MINOR · IDENTIFIED

Unexpected GPT-5.6 Terra responses

Started 4 days 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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User Reports: Last 24 Hours
1 report

Bars represent 20-min intervals. Occasional spikes may reflect individual issues, not widespread outages.

Outage Map
1 report (24h)

Reports by region (last 24h)

North America 1 (100%)

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Recent User Reports
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Latest 50 reports from the last 48 hours

Top reported issues

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Service outage 2

Error messages 1

Feature not working 1

API errors 1

Degraded performance 0

Timeouts / no response 0

Authentication issues 0

Network / connectivity issues 0

Billing or usage issues 0

Other 0

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Issue breakdown
5 total votes

Distribution of reported issues over the last 24 hours.

Service outage 40%

Error messages 20%

Feature not working 20%

API errors 20%

Degraded performance 0%

Timeouts / no response 0%

Authentication issues 0%

Network / connectivity issues 0%

Billing or usage issues 0%

Other 0%

Last 90 days

90-Day Health Summary

Total Incidents

95

Since Apr 2026
Major / Critical

12

12 high-impact incidents
Minor Incidents

83

Avg. 0.9 per day
Median Resolution

1h 44m

P95: 27h 57m

OpenAI Response Time, ms

By Continent

Location List

From official status page

Recent Outage History

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Incident	Started	Duration	Impact	Status	Link
Elevated errors deploying Sites	Aug 18, 2026 · 7:17 PM	20m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Unexpected GPT-5.6 Terra responses	Aug 14, 2026 · 10:22 PM	Ongoing	Minor	Identified	Details →
Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free users	Aug 13, 2026 · 3:19 PM	8h 38m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Error while creating custom RBAC roles for Enterprise users	Aug 13, 2026 · 2:03 PM	8h 23m	None	Resolved	Details →
Increase in errors on API, Codex and Work Mode	Aug 11, 2026 · 9:35 PM	1h 7m	None	Resolved	Details →
Users unable to login to ads manager	Aug 11, 2026 · 5:25 PM	3m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Go conversations	Aug 11, 2026 · 2:10 PM	10m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Increased error rates	Aug 11, 2026 · 12:54 PM	2h 7m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Increased error rates	Aug 10, 2026 · 2:04 PM	12h 43m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Increased errors for some ChatGPT users	Aug 10, 2026 · 7:21 AM	47m	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 95 incidents, of which 12 were major or critical. The median resolution time is 1h 44m.
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.