OpenAI outage, 1 October 2026

Issues with login, signup, and ads

Started
Resolved
1 Oct 2026, 19:39 UTC (after 53 min)
Impact
Major

Last update from OpenAI

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

1 Oct 2026, 19:39 UTC

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Other OpenAI incidents

  1. Widespread feature degradation

  2. Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API

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

  4. Degraded performance in Codex and ChatGPT Work

  5. Degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode

  6. Workspace admins may be unable to manage plugins

  7. Some ChatGPT content may be unavailable on Android

  8. Delayed Costs data in the Compliance API

All recorded OpenAI incidents