# OpenAI in August 2026: incidents, uptime and changes > OpenAI in August 2026: 20 incidents on its status page (1 major or critical), 99.27% free of major or critical incidents (vendor-reported), 4 deprecations. From Rewindex’s archive of OpenAI’s status, pricing and policy pages. Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/openai/2026/08 Last updated: 2026-10-16T04:00:00Z - Incidents posted: 20 (major/critical: 1) · Maintenance: 0 - By vendor impact label: major 1, minor 17, none 2 - Uptime (vendor-reported): 99.27% free of major/critical incidents, 92.41% free of any incident; outage time 5 h 24 min, incident time 2.4 days - Price changes: 0 · Pricing/legal/trust page changes: 0 · Deprecations: 4 · CVEs: 0 - Previous month: [July 2026](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/2026/07.md) · Next: [September 2026](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/2026/09.md) · [All months](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/reports.md) · [OpenAI](https://rewindex.com/company/openai.md) _Uptime: Derived from the incidents the vendor posted on its own status page, not measured by us. A minute counts as an outage minute when a major or critical incident (as the vendor labelled it) was open; incident minutes include minor ones too. Maintenance and incidents marked "no impact" are left out, overlapping incidents are merged, a resolved incident counts for at most 7 days, and one still open with no resolution counts for at most 24 hours._ ## Major and critical incidents | Incident | Impact (vendor label) | Started (UTC) | Resolved (UTC) | Duration | Status | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M1C5M4K0WC8PPT0Z175RJA1E.md) | major | 2026-08-31 15:04 UTC | 2026-08-31 20:28 UTC | 5.4 h | resolved | ## All incidents | Incident | Impact (vendor label) | Started (UTC) | Resolved (UTC) | Duration | Status | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Elevated ChatGPT conversation errors affecting Plus, Pro, Business, and Edu users](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZ6CT9K9Q52S3707W75MNBGB.md) | minor | 2026-08-04 12:43 UTC | 2026-08-04 15:25 UTC | 2.7 h | resolved | | [Elevated errors with image generation](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZ96S5HEWX0CX26W2WFYFKE6.md) | minor | 2026-08-05 14:55 UTC | 2026-08-05 23:22 UTC | 8.5 h | resolved | | [Issues with Custom GPT actions](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZ9DMQD2GJ8JJWDN7572RH78.md) | minor | 2026-08-05 16:55 UTC | 2026-08-05 22:49 UTC | 5.9 h | resolved | | [Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations with files](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZ9E7QD8WFJD5DMF73QGVYH8.md) | minor | 2026-08-05 17:06 UTC | 2026-08-05 20:19 UTC | 3.2 h | resolved | | [Increased errors for some ChatGPT users](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZN8RYNZY8T4QQGB3JWMPYRW.md) | minor | 2026-08-10 07:21 UTC | 2026-08-10 08:09 UTC | 48 min | resolved | | [Increased error rates](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZNZTPWMV06Z6TQNMY1R1QDR.md) | minor | 2026-08-10 14:04 UTC | 2026-08-11 02:48 UTC | 13 h | resolved | | [Increased error rates](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZRE6ZA1RE1ZH4HQ111CX1S8.md) | minor | 2026-08-11 12:54 UTC | 2026-08-11 15:01 UTC | 2.1 h | resolved | | [Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Go conversations](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZRJHTR75WDXCMC0ZERX6YJC.md) | minor | 2026-08-11 14:10 UTC | 2026-08-11 14:20 UTC | 10 min | resolved | | [Users unable to login to ads manager](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZRXPE0NGXA12FJNP8WZF8D7.md) | minor | 2026-08-11 17:25 UTC | 2026-08-11 17:28 UTC | 3 min | resolved | | [Increase in errors on API, Codex and Work Mode](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZSC0T66YTVM57N5T79SV8ZV.md) | none | 2026-08-11 21:35 UTC | 2026-08-11 22:42 UTC | 1.1 h | resolved | | [Error while creating custom RBAC roles for Enterprise users](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZXPZD4KHMQQFF09PSNNEZT8.md) | none | 2026-08-13 14:03 UTC | 2026-08-13 22:26 UTC | 8.4 h | resolved | | [Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free users](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZXVAJQ5XFH7PTM43XVPQWGJ.md) | minor | 2026-08-13 15:19 UTC | 2026-08-13 23:58 UTC | 8.7 h | resolved | | [Elevated errors deploying Sites](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M0B4WSV41BCFZ9VDWKSMQVSP.md) | minor | 2026-08-18 19:17 UTC | 2026-08-18 19:37 UTC | 20 min | resolved | | [Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right now](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M0E7K87VJNMGW0QTMHPEQQ39.md) | minor | 2026-08-20 00:35 UTC | 2026-08-20 00:54 UTC | 19 min | resolved | | [Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M0FQAR3NNH3ANVTQMBRD47DC.md) | minor | 2026-08-20 13:56 UTC | 2026-08-20 16:51 UTC | 2.9 h | resolved | | [Elevated Codex API authentication errors](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M0G1RZER839AZXWMYKSZF3GR.md) | minor | 2026-08-20 16:58 UTC | 2026-08-20 17:52 UTC | 53 min | resolved | | [Unexpected logouts for some ChatGPT web users](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M0JXWD740S0Y50DWJZS7SH75.md) | minor | 2026-08-21 17:57 UTC | 2026-08-21 23:15 UTC | 5.3 h | resolved | | [Users may experience an increase in error rates in Workspace Agents and ChatGPT Work on Web and Mobile](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M1263309PD7VYV8EF95W2M2P.md) | minor | 2026-08-27 18:00 UTC | 2026-08-27 22:14 UTC | 4.2 h | resolved | | [ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M1C5M4K0WC8PPT0Z175RJA1E.md) | major | 2026-08-31 15:04 UTC | 2026-08-31 20:28 UTC | 5.4 h | resolved | | [Elevated latency in the Responses API](https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M1CYZDD84XD0H56XNEV2PT98.md) | minor | 2026-08-31 22:27 UTC | 2026-09-01 19:05 UTC | 21 h | resolved | ## Deprecations and commercial changes - [gpt-4o-mini-transcribe](https://deadcanary.io/event/openai-gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-23e5/) (gpt-4o-mini-transcribe): announced 2026-08-26, effective 2027-02-26 - [gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize](https://deadcanary.io/event/openai-gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize-3e31/) (gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize): announced 2026-08-26, effective 2027-02-26 - [/v1/audio/translations](https://deadcanary.io/event/openai-v1-audio-translations-42c2/) (/v1/audio/translations): announced 2026-08-26, effective 2027-02-26 - [Assistants API removed](https://deadcanary.io/event/openai-assistants-api-removed-ca8d/) (Assistants API removed): announced n/a, effective 2026-08-26 ## Cite this OpenAI posted 20 status incidents in August 2026 (1 major or critical); 0 price changes and 0 notable page changes observed. - Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/openai/2026/08 - Citation: OpenAI, “OpenAI in August 2026” (2026-08-01 00:00 UTC). 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