# 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. Live status: Operational. Read from status.openai.com on Nov 5, 2026, 16:21 UTC. Source: [status.openai.com](https://status.openai.com) Updated: 2026-11-05 Canonical: https://llmapi.ai/status/openai/ - 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) When OpenAI goes down, LLM API sends your requests to another provider that serves the same model, such as Azure. No code changes. Model ID: `gpt-6-astra` · Endpoint: `https://api.llmapi.ai/v1` ## Is OpenAI down now? 73 of 90 days without an incident · 99.97% uptime by OpenAI Days that were not green (UTC): - 2026-08-31: Degraded, 1 h 32 min · Elevated latency in the Responses API - 2026-09-01: Degraded, 19 h 6 min · Elevated latency in the Responses API - 2026-09-08: Degraded, 7 h 27 min · Elevated errors for image generation - 2026-09-11: Degraded, 2 h 13 min · Elevated errors for GPT-5.6 Sol on the API - 2026-09-15: Partial outage, 9 min · Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare - 2026-09-16: Partial outage, 31 min · Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare - 2026-09-17: Degraded, 1 h · We are seeing elevated error rates across API models - 2026-09-29: Degraded, 5 h 21 min · Elevated errors across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API including the Agents API - 2026-09-30: Degraded, 3 h 30 min · Elevated latency for some API requests - 2026-10-06: Degraded, 15 h 56 min · 3 incidents - 2026-10-14: Degraded, 40 min · Limited availability on gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst - 2026-10-19: Degraded, 42 min · File Download errors - 2026-10-20: Partial outage, 1 h · Authentication errors for some users - 2026-10-21: Degraded, 1 h 31 min · 2 incidents - 2026-10-22: Degraded, 6 h 32 min · Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors - 2026-10-27: Degraded, 1 h 18 min · 6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance - 2026-10-30: 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](https://status.openai.com/history) ### Elevated errors for GPT Image 2 API image edits Degraded · Oct 30, 14:35–18:36 UTC · 4 h 1 min · 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](https://statuspage.incident.io/openai-1/incidents/q2w8wv0f) ### 6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance Degraded · Oct 27, 15:02–16:20 UTC · 1 h 18 min · 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. [View on status.openai.com](https://statuspage.incident.io/openai-1/incidents/whtv28cg) ### Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors Degraded · Oct 22, 02:18–08:50 UTC · 6 h 32 min · 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](https://statuspage.incident.io/openai-1/incidents/6h0ft2qg) ## OpenAI models on LLM API - [GPT-6 Astra](https://llmapi.ai/models/openai-gpt-6-astra/) (`gpt-6-astra`): $10 / 1M input tokens, $50 / 1M output tokens, context 1.05M - [GPT-6.1 Sol](https://llmapi.ai/models/gpt-6-1-sol/) (`gpt-6.1-sol`): $2 / 1M input tokens, $10 / 1M output tokens, context 1.05M - [GPT-6 Luna](https://llmapi.ai/models/openai-gpt-6-luna/) (`gpt-6-luna`): $0.075 / 1M input tokens, $0.375 / 1M output tokens, context 1.05M [All OpenAI models](https://llmapi.ai/providers/openai/) ## Frequently asked questions **Q: Is OpenAI GPT down right now?** A: 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. **Q: Where does this status come from?** A: From status.openai.com, the official status page. Uptime is the provider’s own figure, shown only where the provider publishes one. **Q: What happens to my requests during an outage?** A: When OpenAI goes down, LLM API sends your requests to another provider that serves the same model, such as Azure. No code changes. Next step: [Get API key](https://app.llmapi.ai/signup)