Companies / ai
OpenAI
106incidents since 2026-07-19
14major or critical
105in the last 90 days
0silently edited or deleted
Recent notable changes
| When (UTC) | Change | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Major incident: Widespread feature degradation OpenAI reported major, widespread feature degradation, including login and signup issues in ChatGPT iOS/Android apps, starting 2026-10-15 14:30 UTC and lasting 4 h 26 min. A mitigation was applied at 17:13 UTC, and all impacted services fully recovered by 2026-10-15 18:56 UTC. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: Workspace admins may be unable to manage plugins A major outage affected some ChatGPT workspace administrators’ ability to view and manage plugin availability and settings; some users also saw plugins as unavailable. It started at 2026-10-09 21:48 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-09 23:26 UTC, lasting 1 h 38 min. OpenAI reported full recovery but stated no cause or fix. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: Some ChatGPT content may be unavailable on Android A major ChatGPT Android outage caused some content to display “This content is unavailable in this version of the app” from 2026-10-09 21:00 UTC to 2026-10-10 00:26 UTC, lasting 3 h 26 min. OpenAI rolled out a fix in the latest Android version and suggested using the web meanwhile; all impacted services fully recovered. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: Unable to create new ChatGPT Work threads in latest version of desktop app A major outage prevented creating new ChatGPT Work threads in desktop app version 26.1002.51308, starting 2026-10-07 05:31 UTC and lasting 6 h 21 min. OpenAI resolved it at 2026-10-07 11:53 UTC with updated apps for Linux, macOS and Windows; affected users should update to the latest version. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: Issues with login, signup, and ads OpenAI reported a major incident affecting login, signup, and ads from 2026-10-01 18:46 UTC to 2026-10-01 19:39 UTC, lasting 53 min. A mitigation was applied at 19:26 UTC, and all impacted services fully recovered. | Major incident | |
| Critical incident: Issues with Codex Codex experienced a critical outage with elevated errors starting 2026-09-25 22:58 UTC, lasting 55 min and resolving at 2026-09-25 23:54 UTC. OpenAI advised that login via API key would unblock access, then applied a mitigation and confirmed full recovery. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Work mode ChatGPT Work mode experienced a major incident causing failures for some users starting or running Work tasks. It began at 2026-09-17 19:03 UTC and lasted 1 h 21 min, resolving at 2026-09-17 20:24 UTC; OpenAI reported implementing mitigation and confirmed full recovery. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare OpenAI reported a major incident causing elevated errors for API image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare. It started at 2026-09-15 23:50 UTC and lasted 40 min, resolving at 2026-09-16 00:30 UTC. OpenAI applied a mitigation and confirmed full recovery. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: ChatGPT Work Mode High Error Rates ChatGPT Work Mode experienced high error rates, with vendor-rated major impact, starting at 2026-09-03 00:04 UTC. The incident lasted 6 min and was resolved at 2026-09-03 00:10 UTC, when OpenAI reported all impacted services had fully recovered. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency ChatGPT Work had a major incident starting 2026-08-31 15:04 UTC, lasting 5 h 23 min and resolving at 2026-08-31 20:28 UTC. Elevated errors and latency prevented users across multiple subscription plans from starting or continuing tasks; Plus users were particularly impacted, with Work mode unavailable. OpenAI applied a mitigation and reported full recovery. | Major incident |
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Status incident history
OpenAI status incidents per year
Data table
| Year | Incidents | Major/critical |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 106 | 14 |
Incidents per month, last 36 months
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Data table
| Month | Impact | Incidents |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07 | major | 4 |
| 2026-07 | minor | 15 |
| 2026-07 | none | 1 |
| 2026-08 | major | 1 |
| 2026-08 | minor | 17 |
| 2026-08 | none | 2 |
| 2026-09 | critical | 1 |
| 2026-09 | major | 3 |
| 2026-09 | minor | 26 |
| 2026-09 | none | 10 |
| 2026-10 | major | 5 |
| 2026-10 | minor | 19 |
| 2026-10 | none | 2 |
Silent edits
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Pricing, trust and legal pages
| Page | URL | Versions | Last changed | Last fetched OK | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricingpartial | openai.com/api/pricing/ | 0 | none yet |
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Incident timeline
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