OpenAI outage, 30 October 2026

Elevated errors for GPT Image 2 API image edits

Started
Status
Ongoing: Monitoring
Impact
Minor

Is this still happening?

Yes. OpenAI still lists it as monitoring; last update 30 Oct 2026, 16:06 UTC.

Right now: OpenAI reports degraded performance on some systems. (as of 30 Oct, 16:44 UTC) Live OpenAI status

Last update from OpenAI

We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.

30 Oct 2026, 16:06 UTC

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