ChatGPT: Elevated errors from GPT-5.6 and GPT-5.6 Instant on paid plans
Affected components: Conversations
Timeline of updates
- investigating
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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First version captured
In the 2026-10-17 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
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Cite this
Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by ChatGPT, started 2026-09-15 07:12 UTC, resolved after 42 min, 3 update(s).
- Title
- Elevated errors from GPT-5.6 and GPT-5.6 Instant on paid plans
- Vendor
- ChatGPT
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/chatgpt/incidents/01M2HYH64J2CZMZ63HEV2FCQFA
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