OpenAI Outage History

The OpenAI API experienced a broad outage starting at Jun 23, 2025 10:06 PM UTC with initial Compliance API data delays, leading to degraded performance and elevated errors across a wide range of endpoints. Users relying on OpenAI services reported slower responses and intermittent errors across APIs including Realtime, Responses, Embeddings, Fine-tuning, Login, Images, Batch, Files, Assistants, Audio, Completions (legacy), Chat, Moderations, and Uploads. The incident lasted about 5 days and 2 hours, with recovery progressing as mitigations were deployed and more components returned to normal. Full restoration for affected APIs and related features was completed by Jun 29, 2025 12:16 AM UTC.

OpenAI experienced a global login and authentication incident beginning at Jun 23, 2025 7:19 PM UTC and ending by Jun 23, 2025 9:12 PM UTC. The outage lasted about 1 hour and 53 minutes and affected users trying to sign in or authenticate to OpenAI services. Reports described sign-in failures, authentication errors, and server errors across regions, with some users unable to sign in while others encountered repeated sign-in prompts or errors when accessing APIs and dashboards. The issue appears to have impacted access to ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and related services, hindering normal workflows for a broad set of users.

OpenAI experienced a short-lived degradation affecting the ChatGPT / Conversations component with elevated errors reported for paid ChatGPT users. The issue began at Jun 19, 2025 2:11 AM UTC when the component was downgraded to a warning and a mitigation was started. The provider issued two status updates during the incident, and service was restored by Jun 19, 2025 2:17 AM UTC. The disruption lasted roughly 6 minutes and did not indicate a broader outage across OpenAI services.

OpenAI reported a degraded login experience for ChatGPT, with some users seeing a “Content failed to load” error after signing in. The issue began at Jun 18, 2025 8:06 PM UTC and was resolved by Jun 19, 2025 12:21 AM UTC, lasting about 4 hours and 15 minutes. The incident involved the ChatGPT / Login component and spanned two official status updates before full restoration. User reports were limited, with at least one account of chatGPT not responding during the incident.

OpenAI reported a brief degraded period affecting ChatGPT / Conversations, with users experiencing elevated errors. The incident began at Jun 18, 2025 1:21 AM UTC and was resolved by Jun 18, 2025 1:37 AM UTC, lasting about 16 minutes. The OpenAI status page posted two updates during the incident, describing conversation errors and then confirming restoration. User reports showed a noticeable spike in issues around the middle of the event, with impact focused on ChatGPT / Conversations.

The outage began around 1:10 AM UTC when users started reporting errors in the ChatGPT message stream. StatusGator detected the issue at Jun 18, 2025 1:10 AM UTC, about 11 minutes before OpenAI acknowledged the problem on their status page. OpenAI listed Conversation errors for ChatGPT and began mitigation; services remained degraded until they returned to normal by 1:37 AM UTC.

The impact appeared global, with user reports spanning multiple regions including the Americas, Europe, and other territories. Symptoms described include errors when sending or receiving messages, messages being rejected as too long, and generic 'Something went wrong' prompts.

During the incident, OpenAI issued two official status updates and worked to stabilize the system. The incident is classified as a minor outage with degraded performance.

OpenAI experienced a brief login incident affecting 3 components: APIs / Login, Sora / Login, and ChatGPT / Login. Users attempting to sign in faced transient Service Unavailable errors. The outage began at Jun 17, 2025 5:11 PM UTC and was resolved by Jun 17, 2025 5:21 PM UTC, lasting about 10 minutes. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident and deployed a mitigation that restored service; all impacted services were returned to normal by Jun 17, 2025 5:21 PM UTC. A small number of user reports appeared during the window (with activity starting around 5:00 PM UTC).

OpenAI reported a brief error spike affecting the ChatGPT / Conversations component. The issue began at 3:41 PM UTC and was resolved by 3:51 PM UTC, lasting approximately 10 minutes. OpenAI communicated that it was investigating increased errors in ChatGPT Conversations, followed by a confirmation that the issue had been resolved and service returned to normal. The incident involved two official status updates documenting the investigation and subsequent recovery.

OpenAI reported a short-lived disruption affecting ChatGPT conversations, causing errors and degraded chat experiences for a brief period. The incident began at Jun 16, 2025 2:11 PM UTC when the ChatGPT / Conversations component moved to a degraded state and was resolved by Jun 16, 2025 2:28 PM UTC after about 17 minutes.

OpenAI posted two status updates during the incident to describe the issue and its resolution, noting that ChatGPT / Conversations returned to normal after the final update. The impact appeared limited to ChatGPT conversations, with no broader service disruption indicated.

OpenAI experienced a brief login disruption affecting the ChatGPT login flow. The incident began when the ChatGPT / Login component moved to a degraded state at Jun 12, 2025 6:37 PM UTC, triggering an internal investigation and a status update that cited login issues while the team worked to restore normal access.

The issue was resolved about Jun 12, 2025 8:32 PM UTC, with the status returning to up. OpenAI issued two official status updates during the incident, and the outage lasted roughly 1 hour and 55 minutes, impacting users attempting to sign in to ChatGPT.