OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI reported a degraded period affecting ChatGPT / GPTs, with users experiencing issues accessing the service and problems related to GPT and project creation. The issue began at Aug 5, 2025 6:36 AM UTC when the ChatGPT / GPTs component moved to a degraded state and a mitigation was being implemented. The degradation persisted for about 6 hours and 20 minutes and was resolved by Aug 5, 2025 12:56 PM UTC, at which time services returned to normal and the status transitioned back to healthy. The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident to describe the issue and recovery steps.

User reports indicated customer impact, including at least one report of being unable to access ChatGPT during the incident window. The issue affected the ChatGPT / GPTs component, including features such as GPT-related operations and project creation.

OpenAI experienced degraded performance across its API endpoints beginning at Aug 4, 2025 11:51 PM UTC, with 15 API components listed as affected, including Images, Embeddings, Fine-tuning, Batch, Realtime, Responses, Login, Assistants, Audio, Completions (legacy), Chat, Compliance, Moderations, and Uploads. Users invoking OpenAI APIs during the incident may have seen higher error rates or slower responses. The status page indicated an ongoing investigation as the affected components transitioned to a degraded state. The incident involved two official status updates from OpenAI and lasted approximately 1 hour and 5 minutes.

OpenAI reported a brief outage affecting ChatGPT Image Generation, with image creation requests failing during the incident. The issue began at Aug 4, 2025 12:01 PM UTC and was resolved by Aug 4, 2025 1:01 PM UTC. The ChatGPT / Image Generation component moved from up to warn and back to up as OpenAI investigated and mitigated the problem. The status page showed two official updates during the event, acknowledging the error and confirming restoration of image generation functionality.

The outage affected the ChatGPT / Codex component, with Codex tasks failing to execute. The incident began at 8:46 PM UTC and was resolved by 9:21 PM UTC, lasting about 35 minutes. The status message stated Codex Tasks Not Succeeding and noted mitigation was being applied during the outage.

OpenAI's status page published two updates during the incident: the initial transition to a down state and a follow-up confirming recovery as the component returned to normal. The disruption appeared localized to ChatGPT / Codex with no broader OpenAI services indicated as affected.

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.