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Is OpenAI down?

OpenAI status · AI & APIs · checked (3s ago)

Also searched as ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Sora.

Operational

No — OpenAI is not down. All OpenAI systems are reported operational.

According to OpenAI's official status page, OpenAI was reporting “All Systems Operational” when isuptime last checked at . Over the last 30 days, OpenAI's feed reported no outage in 99.87% of our checks.

No outage reported (30d)
99.87%
Share of our checks where OpenAI's feed reported no outage. Degraded counts as no-outage. Not an SLA.
Response time
942 ms
How long the last status check took
Reported by
Operational
All Systems Operational

We've written about OpenAI

Is OpenAI down for you right now?

Everything above is read from OpenAI's own status feed. This is what other visitors are saying in the last 24 hours — useful when the feed is green and you are still stuck, and never used to change the status above.

Nobody has reported OpenAI in the last 24 hours. Yours would be the first.

Reports are anonymous counts and are kept for 24 hours, then deleted. No account, no message, nothing stored about who reported. One report per service per hour, changeable until the hour is out.

What OpenAI is

OpenAI runs ChatGPT and the API behind it, along with the Sora, DALL·E, Whisper and embeddings endpoints. ChatGPT and the API are different products on shared infrastructure — one being unusable is weak evidence about the other, which is why so many outage reports disagree with each other.

What OpenAI's status feed covers

OpenAI's status page lists ChatGPT, the API and the individual endpoint families as separate components, and it is one of the more actively maintained status pages among AI providers — elevated error rates usually appear within minutes. Note that model-specific capacity problems are often posted against a single component, so the aggregate indicator can read amber when only one model is affected.

isuptime reads this feed on a schedule and reports what it says — how that works, in detail.

OpenAI uptime, last 30 days

One bar per day. Each shows the share of that day's checks where OpenAI's own status feed reported no outage — degraded counts as no-outage. Days with no bar are days isuptime recorded no checks, not days OpenAI was down.

2026-10-0913 of 30 days recordedToday
  • No outage reported (99%+)
  • 95–99%
  • 80–95%
  • Under 80%
  • No data

Other services reporting problems right now

9 other services isuptime tracks were also reporting a problem as of the same check, 3s ago. They are checked on one schedule, so the timing is comparable — but overlapping in time does not mean they share a cause.

1 more service is reporting problems — see all →

OpenAI response time trend

Each point is one check of OpenAI's status endpoint.

OpenAI outage history

OpenAI has published 25 incidents in the last 12 months, the 20 most recent shown here. Only what OpenAI posted itself — not every problem users hit.

OpenAI status — frequently asked

Is OpenAI down right now?
No — OpenAI is not down. All OpenAI systems are reported operational. Checked (3s ago).
What is OpenAI's status right now?
OpenAI is reporting “All Systems Operational” on its official status page — Operational — as of . That status feed answered our last check in 942 ms. isuptime reads this from OpenAI's own published feed and does not test OpenAI independently.
When did OpenAI last go down?
The most recent incident OpenAI published was “Elevated error rates with some U.S. business Mastercards”, opened Nov 6, 06:38 PM UTC (1d ago), and still open. That is the latest entry in OpenAI's own incident feed, not every problem users experienced.
What is OpenAI's uptime?
isuptime does not measure OpenAI's uptime directly — it reads OpenAI's own published status feed. Over the last 30 days, OpenAI's own status feed reported no outage in 99.87% of isuptime's checks. Periods the provider called degraded count as no-outage, and this is isuptime's own measurement, not a contractual SLA.
Is it just me, or is OpenAI down for everyone?
OpenAI reports all systems operational, so the problem is likely local to your network, browser or account. Try a different network or device.

OpenAI says operational but it is not working for me

A 429 is your own rate limit or a spend cap, not an outage. A 401 is a key problem. If ChatGPT loads but every response fails, log out and back in — expired sessions produce a convincing imitation of a server outage. Regional access blocks and corporate network filtering also present as a total outage while OpenAI's own status stays green.

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