ChatGPT and OpenAI API outages

Every incident the OpenAI status page has reported since 2 Oct 2026, newest first: what broke, how serious OpenAI rated it and how long it lasted. For whether it is down right now, check the live status page.

As of 29 Oct 2026, the OpenAI status page had listed 39 incidents in the last 30 days, 5 rated major or critical. The latest started on 27 Oct 2026: "6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance".

Updated 29 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTCSource: OpenAI status page

Live status: status.openai.com
Incidents, last 30 days: 39 (5 major or critical)
Latest incident: 27 Oct 2026
Longest since 2 Oct 2026: 3 days · 9 Oct 2026

Service	Incident	Impact	Started	Lasted
OpenAI	6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance	Minor	Oct 27	1 h 18 min
OpenAI	Elevated error rates for most hosted Code Reviews and Security Reviews on private GitHub repositories	Notice	Oct 27	29 min
OpenAI	Elevated error rates for Ads POST requests	Minor	Oct 26	11 min
OpenAI	Degraded experience with ChatGPT app connections using CIMD	Minor	Oct 23	50 min
OpenAI	Help Center Chat Support Degraded	Notice	Oct 23	33 min
OpenAI	Delays in customer support responses	Notice	Oct 23	2 h 17 min
OpenAI	New Ad Accounts failing to provision admins	Minor	Oct 22	4 h 31 min
OpenAI	Degraded Performance of Dots on Enterprise	Minor	Oct 22	2 h 4 min
OpenAI	Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors	Minor	Oct 22	6 h 32 min
OpenAI	Authentication errors for some users	Major	Oct 21	<1 min
OpenAI	Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests	Minor	Oct 21	1 h 9 min
OpenAI	Elevated FedRAMP API error rates for Astra and Sol	Minor	Oct 21	5 h 17 min
OpenAI	Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs	Minor	Oct 21	1 h 2 min
OpenAI	File Download errors	Minor	Oct 19	42 min
OpenAI	Widespread feature degradation	Major	Oct 15	2 h 27 min
OpenAI	Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API	Minor	Oct 14	41 h 44 min
OpenAI	Limited availability on gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst	Minor	Oct 14	40 min
OpenAI	Degraded performance in Codex and ChatGPT Work	Minor	Oct 14	2 h 47 min
OpenAI	Degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode	Minor	Oct 13	8 h 27 min
OpenAI	Workspace admins may be unable to manage plugins	Major	Oct 9	1 h 38 min
OpenAI	Some ChatGPT content may be unavailable on Android	Major	Oct 9	3 h 26 min
OpenAI	Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API	Minor	Oct 9	3 days
OpenAI	Some APAC users are seeing errors in ChatGPT Work, conversations, and GPTs.	Minor	Oct 8	1 h 34 min
OpenAI	Elevated errors with GPT-5.6 Instant in FedRAMP workspaces	Minor	Oct 7	21 min
OpenAI	Degraded performance in Codex and Work mode: Dot turn failures, delayed responses, and reduced proactivity	Minor	Oct 7	1 h 2 min
OpenAI	Dot in Codex may fail to create new threads	Minor	Oct 7	1 h 35 min
OpenAI	Unable to create new ChatGPT Work threads in latest version of desktop app	Major	Oct 7	6 h 22 min
OpenAI	Workspace Agents Degraded and Responses Impacted	Minor	Oct 7	1 h 48 min
OpenAI	Computer Use Is Experiencing Issues	Minor	Oct 6	2 h 45 min
OpenAI	Errors processing large PDFs in the Responses API	Minor	Oct 6	2 h 4 min
OpenAI	Elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conversations	Minor	Oct 6	1 h 5 min
OpenAI	Elevated errors affecting multiple products including ChatGPT (conversations), Image generations, Spaces and Pages, API rehydration, and Dots.	Minor	Oct 6	36 min
OpenAI	Elevated errors in API Platform login and administration APIs.	Minor	Oct 6	55 min
OpenAI	Elevated error rates in Codex Cloud	Notice	Oct 5	6 h 3 min
OpenAI	Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations	Minor	Oct 5	7 h 2 min
OpenAI	Admin Console Intermittently Inaccessible	Notice	Oct 5	5 h 17 min
OpenAI	Issues saving and editing Pages	Minor	Oct 5	20 min
OpenAI	Elevated Work Mode errors	Minor	Oct 5	19 h 6 min
OpenAI	Issues with data analysis and file creation in ChatGPT	Minor	Oct 2	48 min

Titles and impact ratings are OpenAI's own. Our history starts 2 Oct 2026. All services: AI outages.

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