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ChatGPT: Major incident: ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency

Summary

ChatGPT Work had a major incident with elevated errors and latency, preventing users across multiple subscription plans from starting or continuing tasks; Plus users were particularly impacted, with Work mode unavailable. It started at 2026-08-31 15:04 UTC and resolved at 2026-08-31 20:28 UTC, lasting 5 h 23 min. A mitigation was applied, and services fully recovered.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 52%)Changed Detected Source: status.openai.com

What changed

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After: We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. Plus users are particularly impacted, where Work mode is currently unavailable. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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After: User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing to work on a mitigation.
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After: All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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History of this incident

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Major incident: ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency (this change)
ChatGPT Work had a major incident with elevated errors and latency, preventing users across multiple subscription plans from starting or continuing tasks; Plus users were particularly impacted, with Work mode unavailable. It started at 2026-08-31 15:04 UTC and resolved at 2026-08-31 20:28 UTC, lasting 5 h 23 min. A mitigation was applied, and services fully recovered.
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