OpenAI outage, 21 October 2026
Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs
- Started
- Resolved
- 21 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC (after 1 h 1 min)
- Impact
- Minor
Is this still happening?
No. OpenAI marked this incident resolved on 21 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC, 1 h 1 min after it began.
Right now: OpenAI reports all systems operational. (as of 26 Oct, 03:47 UTC) Live OpenAI status
Last update from OpenAI
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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