OpenAI uptime status

OpenAI API status, live from OpenAI’s official status page, with 90 days of incident history. ChatGPT and Codex are left out.

Uptime (90 days): 99.97%; OpenAI’s figure for its API group
Incidents (30 days): 10; On any of the 14 API components
Incident time (30 days): 19 h 24 min; Time with any API component affected

Is OpenAI down now?

73 of 90 days without an incident · 99.97% uptime by OpenAI

No incident
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Last 90 days

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Oct 30 · Degraded, 4 h 1 min · Elevated errors for GPT Image 2 API image edits

API components on OpenAI’s status page

Chat Completions: Operational
Responses: Operational
Agents: Operational
Decisions: Operational
Fine-tuning: Operational
Embeddings: Operational
Images: Operational
Batch: Operational
Audio: Operational
Moderations: Operational
Realtime: Operational
Files: Operational
Login: Operational
Live: Operational

Recent incidents

Last 30 days, as reported on status.openai.com.

Full history

DegradedOct 30, 14:35–18:36 UTC · 4 h 1 minElevated errors for GPT Image 2 API image edits

All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.

API components hit: Images

Resolved · Oct 30, 18:36 UTC
All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.
Monitoring · Oct 30, 16:06 UTC
We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.
Identified · Oct 30, 14:35 UTC
We are experiencing elevated errors for some GPT Image 2 API image edit requests. We have identified the issue and are working on a fix

View on status.openai.com

DegradedOct 27, 15:02–16:20 UTC · 1 h 18 min6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance

All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.

API components hit: Chat Completions, Responses, Batch

Resolved · Oct 27, 16:20 UTC
All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.
Monitoring · Oct 27, 15:40 UTC
We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.
Investigating · Oct 27, 15:02 UTC
We’re investigating a potential issue for the listed services and checking how it affects users. We’ll share an update when we know more.

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DegradedOct 22, 02:18–08:50 UTC · 6 h 32 minElevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

API components hit: Responses

Resolved · Oct 22, 08:50 UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Monitoring · Oct 22, 02:42 UTC
This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
Investigating · Oct 22, 02:18 UTC
This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

View on status.openai.com

OpenAI models on LLM API

All OpenAI models

Frequently asked questions

Is OpenAI GPT down right now?

No. At the last check, status.openai.com showed the API as operational. The chart above marks every day with an incident. Last check: Nov 5, 2026, 16:21 UTC.

Where does this status come from?

From status.openai.com, the official status page. Uptime is the provider’s own figure, shown only where the provider publishes one.

What happens to my requests during an outage?

When OpenAI goes down, LLM API sends your requests to another provider that serves the same model, such as Azure. No code changes.