ChatGPT: Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare

Impact: majorStatus: resolvedStarted 2026-09-15 23:50 UTCResolved 2026-09-16 00:30 UTC (40 min)3 updatesSource: status.openai.com

Summary

ChatGPT reported a major incident affecting API image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare, with elevated errors starting at 2026-09-15 23:50 UTC and lasting 40 min. A mitigation was applied at 23:58 UTC, and all impacted services fully recovered by 2026-09-16 00:30 UTC.

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Affected components: Images

Timeline of updates

investigating2026-09-15 23:50 UTC
We are experiencing elevated error rates for image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare in the API. Our team is working to mitigate the issue. We will provide another update as more information becomes available.
monitoring2026-09-15 23:58 UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
resolved2026-09-16 00:30 UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Rewindex changes for this incident

Major incident: Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare 2026-09-15 23:50 UTC

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