OpenAI outage, 6 October 2026

Errors processing large PDFs in the Responses API

Started
Resolved
6 Oct 2026, 17:50 UTC (after 2 h 4 min)
Impact
Minor

Last update from OpenAI

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

6 Oct 2026, 17:50 UTC

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