# OpenAI: Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-09-15 23:50 UTC · Resolved: 2026-09-16 00:30 UTC · Duration: 40 min
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: Images
- [Vendor status page: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M2KQNE5C42NEZPX6V01NHH5W](https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M2KQNE5C42NEZPX6V01NHH5W)
- [Company: OpenAI](https://rewindex.com/company/openai.md)

## Summary

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. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-09-15 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.
- **monitoring** 2026-09-15 23:58 UTC: We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- **resolved** 2026-09-16 00:30 UTC: All impacted services have now fully recovered.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-09-15 23:50 UTC: [Major incident: Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare](https://rewindex.com/change/i70be6c8aea2e86.md)


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M2KQNE5C42NEZPX6V01NHH5W · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M2KQNE5C42NEZPX6V01NHH5W.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/openai/incidents/01M2KQNE5C42NEZPX6V01NHH5W · Generated 2026-10-18T12:32:23.249Z