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 90 incidents, of which 12 were major or critical. The median resolution time is 1h 54m.

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 · 154 incidents caught

Last checked: 4 min ago · 1 user report (24h) · Trusted by 30,000+ teams

MINOR · IDENTIFIED

Unexpected GPT-5.6 Terra responses

Started 1 month 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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Top reported issues

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Service outage 2

Degraded performance 0

Error messages 0

Timeouts / no response 0

Authentication issues 0

Network / connectivity issues 0

Feature not working 0

API errors 0

Billing or usage issues 0

Other 0

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Issue breakdown
2 total votes

Distribution of reported issues over the last 24 hours.

Service outage 100%

Degraded performance 0%

Error messages 0%

Timeouts / no response 0%

Authentication issues 0%

Network / connectivity issues 0%

Feature not working 0%

API errors 0%

Billing or usage issues 0%

Other 0%

90-Day Health Summary

Total Incidents

90

Jun 18 to Sep 16, 2026
Major / Critical

12

13% of the total
Minor Incidents

78

Avg. 0.9 per day
Median Resolution

1h 54m

P95: 20h 37m

OpenAI Response Time, ms

By Continent

Location List

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Recent Outage History

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Incident	Started	Duration	Impact	Status	Link
Elevated errors in ChatGPT Work	Sep 16, 2026 · 6:44 PM	50m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare	Sep 15, 2026 · 11:50 PM	40m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Ads Manager login issues	Sep 15, 2026 · 4:52 PM	1m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Elevated errors from GPT-5.6 and GPT-5.6 Instant on paid plans	Sep 15, 2026 · 7:12 AM	41m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Degraded Performance affecting Agents API	Sep 14, 2026 · 11:20 PM	18m	None	Resolved	Details →
Elevated errors affecting Work Mode in ChatGPT	Sep 14, 2026 · 3:58 PM	11h 12m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Elevated error rates for Codex and ChatGPT Work	Sep 14, 2026 · 2:46 AM	1h 10m	None	Resolved	Details →
Elevated errors for ChatGPT users in Europe	Sep 13, 2026 · 4:56 PM	51m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Codex GitHub Review and Pull Request Failures	Sep 13, 2026 · 9:26 AM	27m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
1% of ChatGPT Work (mobile/web) turns are failing for existing threads	Sep 11, 2026 · 4:22 PM	9h 34m	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 90 incidents, of which 12 were major or critical. The median resolution time is 1h 54m.
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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