OpenAI Outage History

The outage began at May 23, 2025 6:36 PM UTC and was resolved by May 23, 2025 6:42 PM UTC, lasting about 6 minutes. Users attempting to use OpenAI Codex features within ChatGPT and related APIs experienced elevated errors or degraded responses during the incident. The issue affected Codex functionality but did not indicate a broader disruption to all OpenAI services.

OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident, confirming mitigation steps were underway and that Codex functionality returned to normal shortly after. The incident was short, with operations fully restored shortly after the brief outage.

The outage began on May 22, 2025 9:41 AM UTC and was resolved by May 22, 2025 12:27 PM UTC. OpenAI reported elevated error rates across ChatGPT Web and mobile clients, with users experiencing API errors and incomplete responses. The issues affected ChatGPT / Web, ChatGPT / Mobile - iOS, and ChatGPT / Mobile - Android, resulting in degraded performance and intermittent access for a portion of users. The outage lasted approximately 2 hours and 46 minutes.

OpenAI published two status updates during the incident, first noting an investigation and later confirming restoration of normal service as responses returned to typical operation. User reports were modest but aligned with the observed errors, including 503 Server Unavailable messages.

OpenAI reported high error rates for Codex tasks, causing degraded performance for users executing Codex-related work in ChatGPT/Codex. The outage began at 1:16 AM UTC and was resolved by 1:36 AM UTC, lasting about 20 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident, noting investigations and a subsequent recovery that returned Codex functionality to normal.

OpenAI reported a brief degraded state affecting the ChatGPT login flow, with users experiencing login problems when signing in.

The incident began on 2:41 AM UTC and was resolved by 3:51 AM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 10 minutes. The OpenAI status page showed two updates during the incident, noting that login issues had been identified and mitigations were being implemented.

No other OpenAI services were reported affected, and sign-in functionality returned to normal after the mitigation was applied.

OpenAI reported a brief degradation in ChatGPT Voice mode starting at 10:01 AM UTC, with users seeing increased errors in voice transcription. The issue affected voice input for ChatGPT users and was resolved by 10:12 AM UTC after about 11 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident, confirming the problem and its restoration. User activity began around 9:30 AM UTC with about one report, indicating limited but noticeable impact on users relying on voice transcription. The outage appeared global and did not indicate a full platform outage, but rather a short lived degradation in ChatGPT Voice mode.

OpenAI reported a brief degradation in ChatGPT Search where users experienced elevated failures and high latency. The outage began at 1:26 PM UTC and was resolved by 1:42 PM UTC, lasting 16 minutes. The disruption affected the ChatGPT / Search component, causing slower search results for a subset of users.

OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident, noting investigation and subsequent restoration.

OpenAI reported errors when users attempted to accept new invitations to the Platform, causing login-related issues for impacted services. The problem affected the APIs / Login component and disrupted the invite workflow for about 1 hour and 56 minutes, from May 15, 2025 6:56 PM UTC to May 15, 2025 8:52 PM UTC.

OpenAI reported a short-lived incident in which users experienced elevated errors across a broad set of ChatGPT components. Affected components included ChatGPT / Operator, ChatGPT / GPTs, ChatGPT / Image Generation, ChatGPT / Dall-E, ChatGPT / File uploads, ChatGPT / GPT vision, ChatGPT / Voice mode, ChatGPT / Memory, ChatGPT / Single Sign-On, ChatGPT / Conversations, ChatGPT / Login, ChatGPT / Web, and ChatGPT / Mobile apps, resulting in failed requests and degraded performance for a few minutes. The outage began at May 13, 2025 12:27 AM UTC and was resolved by May 13, 2025 12:31 AM UTC.

The outage began at 11:36 PM UTC and affected OpenAI's ChatGPT services accessed through WhatsApp and the 1-800-CHAT-GPT line. Users attempting to interact via these channels experienced elevated errors and failed message delivery, impacting two components: ChatGPT / WhatsApp and ChatGPT / 1-800-CHAT-GPT. The incident lasted until 5:46 AM UTC, for a total duration of approximately 6 hours and 10 minutes.

OpenAI issued four status updates during the incident, describing mitigation steps and ongoing monitoring. By the time the services were restored, the affected endpoints were reported as up again and normal operation resumed.

The outage began on 1:32 AM UTC and was resolved by 2:26 PM UTC, lasting approximately 12 hours and 54 minutes. The issue affected OpenAI's ChatGPT Search and ChatGPT File uploads, causing degraded performance for users attempting searches or uploading files.

OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident, noting elevated errors in the Search and File Uploads components and that mitigation was being implemented as engineers worked to restore normal operation.

User reports came from multiple regions around the world, indicating widespread impact across geographies as the incident unfolded.