OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI's ChatGPT Conversations History was missing on the Web sidebar for a subset of users, preventing access to past chats and hindering conversation recall. The issue affected the Conversations component and was observed across several regions, with reports from Brazil, India, and South Africa. The outage began at Jul 30, 2025 4:16 PM UTC and was resolved by Jul 30, 2025 8:46 PM UTC, lasting about 4 hours and 30 minutes. The provider issued two status updates during the incident to investigate and restore the feature.

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Search experienced a brief degradation starting at Jul 28, 2025 1:56 PM UTC with elevated error rates reported by users. The issue was mitigated and services returned to normal by Jul 28, 2025 2:26 PM UTC after roughly 30 minutes. The provider issued two status updates during the incident to communicate the issue and mitigation steps, and the impact was limited to the ChatGPT / Search component.

OpenAI experienced elevated errors when accessing the gpt-4.1-mini API, resulting in degraded access for some users. The issue affected the APIs / Responses component and caused failed or delayed requests during the incident. The outage began at Jul 21, 2025 9:37 PM UTC and was resolved by Jul 21, 2025 10:21 PM UTC, lasting approximately 44 minutes. OpenAI implemented mitigation and continued to monitor the recovery.

OpenAI's status page moved from up to warn at Jul 21, 2025 9:37 PM UTC with notes of elevated errors, then back to up at Jul 21, 2025 10:21 PM UTC as recovery completed. The incident included 2 official status updates over its course.

OpenAI's status page reported an incident affecting ChatGPT / Conversations, with elevated errors for all paid users starting on 12:41 PM UTC. Paid users could not consistently send prompts or receive responses, resulting in degraded performance. The incident persisted for about 1 hour 35 minutes and was resolved by 2:16 PM UTC.

OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident describing the elevated errors and ongoing mitigation efforts. After mitigation took effect, ChatGPT / Conversations returned to normal operation. User reports during the incident included locations such as Berlin, Germany.

The issue affected ChatGPT's vision features, causing elevated errors during image processing for paid users. The incident began at Jul 21, 2025 8:51 AM UTC and was resolved by Jul 21, 2025 9:16 AM UTC, lasting about 25 minutes.

OpenAI's status page indicated the ChatGPT / GPT vision component was briefly degraded before returning to normal, and two official updates were issued during the incident to communicate mitigation steps and the resolution.

The ChatGPT / Web interface experienced a brief outage affecting file uploads. The disruption lasted about 30 minutes, starting at 11:06 PM UTC and ending at 11:36 PM UTC. Users attempting to upload files in ChatGPT could have encountered errors during this window. The issue appeared isolated to the ChatGPT / Web component, with no broader service degradation reported.

The OpenAI status page documented the incident with an initial investigation update and a follow-up that confirmed restoration of the file upload feature. Two official status updates were issued during the incident. No Early Warning Signal was observed. The geographic impact appears global, with no regional pattern evident.

OpenAI's ChatGPT services across desktop, web, and mobile experienced elevated network errors, causing connectivity issues for some users. Impacted platforms included ChatGPT / Desktop (Windows and macOS), ChatGPT / Web, and ChatGPT / Mobile (iOS and Android), with reports of intermittent errors and failed requests. The outage began on 10:41 PM UTC and was resolved by 2:56 AM UTC, lasting about 4 hours and 15 minutes. The provider issued two status updates during the incident. A sample user reported in Chattanooga, Tennessee that repeated network errors occurred while using ChatGPT.

OpenAI experienced a broad outage beginning at 9:06 AM UTC, with GPT-4.1 high error rate and latency affecting the APIs that power responses and completions. The issue soon expanded to Login, Images, Chat, and related components, causing degraded performance and failed operations for users across regions. Initial impact was observed on the APIs / Responses and APIs / Completions (legacy).

OpenAI published eight status updates over the course of the incident, detailing the ongoing investigation and mitigation efforts. By 5:21 PM UTC, the majority of affected components had recovered and returned to normal operation. The outage lasted approximately 8 hours and 15 minutes.

Users reported issues from multiple regions around the world, including login problems, chat disruptions, and image generation errors, indicating a global impact across the OpenAI platform. The incident is classified as major due to its broad reach across many APIs and services.

OpenAI experienced a brief outage affecting EU Data Residency API customers, with 15 API components briefly unavailable (including Chat, Completions, Embeddings, Images, Files, Login, Realtime, and more). The incident began for EU Data Residency users at Jul 16, 2025 11:17 PM UTC and recovery started at Jul 16, 2025 11:24 PM UTC, with full restoration by Jul 16, 2025 11:51 PM UTC. OpenAI issued 2 official status updates during the incident.

OpenAI experienced a brief authentication disruption impacting ChatGPT Single Sign-On and the Login APIs, which prevented users from signing in during the incident. Two components were affected: ChatGPT / Single Sign-On and APIs / Login. The outage began at 21:11 UTC and was resolved by 21:16 UTC, lasting about 5 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates to communicate the issue and recovery, and user reports were limited, indicating a short-lived disruption on the login path.