OpenAI outage history

October 2026 25

1. 14 Oct 2026, 17:00 UTC, ongoing

   Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API

   Impact: minor

2. 14 Oct 2026, 10:18 UTC, resolved after 40 min

   Limited availability on gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

   Impact: minor

3. 14 Oct 2026, 07:05 UTC, resolved after 2 h 47 min

   Degraded performance in Codex and ChatGPT Work

   Impact: minor

4. 13 Oct 2026, 08:10 UTC, resolved after 8 h 26 min

   Degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode

   Impact: minor

5. 9 Oct 2026, 21:48 UTC, resolved after 1 h 38 min

   Workspace admins may be unable to manage plugins

   Impact: major

6. 9 Oct 2026, 21:00 UTC, resolved after 3 h 26 min

   Some ChatGPT content may be unavailable on Android

   Impact: major

7. 9 Oct 2026, 17:23 UTC, resolved after 2 days

   Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API

   Impact: minor

8. 8 Oct 2026, 03:17 UTC, resolved after 1 h 33 min

   Some APAC users are seeing errors in ChatGPT Work, conversations, and GPTs.

   Impact: minor

9. 7 Oct 2026, 23:42 UTC, resolved after 21 min

   Elevated errors with GPT-5.6 Instant in FedRAMP workspaces

   Impact: minor

10. 7 Oct 2026, 17:21 UTC, resolved after 1 h 1 min

    Degraded performance in Codex and Work mode: Dot turn failures, delayed responses, and reduced proactivity

    Impact: minor

11. 7 Oct 2026, 16:31 UTC, resolved after 1 h 35 min

    Dot in Codex may fail to create new threads

    Impact: minor

12. 7 Oct 2026, 05:31 UTC, resolved after 6 h 21 min

    Unable to create new ChatGPT Work threads in latest version of desktop app

    Impact: major

13. 7 Oct 2026, 01:12 UTC, resolved after 1 h 47 min

    Workspace Agents Degraded and Responses Impacted

    Impact: minor

14. 6 Oct 2026, 17:15 UTC, resolved after 2 h 45 min

    Computer Use Is Experiencing Issues

    Impact: minor

15. 6 Oct 2026, 15:45 UTC, resolved after 2 h 4 min

    Errors processing large PDFs in the Responses API

    Impact: minor

16. 6 Oct 2026, 13:35 UTC, resolved after 1 h 5 min

    Elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conversations

    Impact: minor

17. 6 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC, resolved after 36 min

    Elevated errors affecting multiple products including ChatGPT (conversations), Image generations, Spaces and Pages, API rehydration, and Dots.

    Impact: minor

18. 6 Oct 2026, 00:40 UTC, resolved after 55 min

    Elevated errors in API Platform login and administration APIs.

    Impact: minor

19. 5 Oct 2026, 17:58 UTC, resolved after 6 h 2 min

    Elevated error rates in Codex Cloud

20. 5 Oct 2026, 16:58 UTC, resolved after 7 h 2 min

    Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations

    Impact: minor

21. 5 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC, resolved after 5 h 17 min

    Admin Console Intermittently Inaccessible

22. 5 Oct 2026, 12:44 UTC, resolved after 20 min

    Issues saving and editing Pages

    Impact: minor

23. 5 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC, resolved after 19 h 6 min

    Elevated Work Mode errors

    Impact: minor

24. 2 Oct 2026, 16:03 UTC, resolved after 48 min

    Issues with data analysis and file creation in ChatGPT

    Impact: minor

25. 1 Oct 2026, 18:46 UTC, resolved after 53 min

    Issues with login, signup, and ads

    Impact: major