OpenAI Status · History · Incident #5754

ACTIVE INCIDENT

Elevated errors for API image generation

Major · Started Jul 21, 2026 · 7:33 PM

Duration

Ongoing
Severity

Major
Detection lead

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User reports

Peak 1/hr

Summary

Elevated errors for API image generation

We have applied mitigations and are seeing error rates return to normal levels. We are monitoring the recovery.

Started

Jul 21, 2026 · 7:33 PM
Status

Monitoring
Duration

Ongoing
Severity

Major

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Investigating
Jul 21 · 7:33 PM OpenAI

We are investigating elevated error rates affecting image generation requests via the API. We are working to restore normal service.
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Monitoring
Jul 21 · 8:26 PM OpenAI

We have applied mitigations and are seeing error rates return to normal levels. We are monitoring the recovery.

User reports · incident window

Report volume over time

Hourly report count. Red bars mark the incident window.

Peak: 1 reports/hr

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