OpenAI Outage History

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.

OpenAI experienced elevated error rates affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the API Images service. The issue began at Jun 12, 2025 3:01 PM UTC and was resolved by Jun 12, 2025 4:46 PM UTC, lasting roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes. Users attempting to generate images in ChatGPT or via the API may have encountered failures or degraded image outputs. OpenAI's status page indicated an investigation with increased error rates, followed by a return to normal as the issue was resolved. The affected components were ChatGPT / Image Generation and APIs / Images, with the incident ending after a brief degradation.

OpenAI experienced a broad outage affecting ChatGPT and related APIs, causing elevated error rates and degraded performance for users worldwide. The disruption impacted a wide range of components including chat sessions, image generation, login workflows, and file uploads. The incident began on Jun 10, 2025 7:11 AM UTC and gradually expanded to widespread impact across ChatGPT features and API endpoints.

OpenAI issued a sequence of status updates throughout the incident, describing ongoing investigations and elevated error rates across many services such as Images, Embeddings, Fine-tuning, Realtime, and Chat. A mid-incident note highlighted a Sign in with Apple login issue. By Jun 11, 2025 9:11 PM UTC most ChatGPT and API components had recovered, with remaining voice-related features continuing to recover for a period after.

User reports were substantial, indicating broad global impact with errors and slow responses reported across regions. OpenAI posted multiple status updates as it worked toward restoration, with services returning to normal gradually over the following day and most components stabilized by late Jun 11, 2025 9:11 PM UTC.

OpenAI reported a degraded ChatGPT search experience affecting search results. The status page showed ChatGPT / Search transitioning to a degraded state at 10:01 PM UTC as the team investigated the issue. The incident affected the ChatGPT search component, while other ChatGPT features continued to operate. The outage began at 10:01 PM UTC and was resolved by 11:36 PM UTC, lasting 1 hour 35 minutes. OpenAI published two status updates during the incident, keeping users informed of progress.

OpenAI later confirmed that the issue had been addressed and the service returned to normal at 11:36 PM UTC. Reports during the window described search-related issues, but there was no indication of a broader outage across OpenAI services.

OpenAI reported degraded file uploading capabilities affecting ChatGPT and the API. Users attempting to upload files experienced elevated errors during the incident. The issue began at 4:26 PM UTC and was resolved by 5:32 PM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 6 minutes. The degradation impacted two components: ChatGPT / File uploads and APIs / Files, likely disrupting workflows that rely on file submissions.

OpenAI issued 3 status updates throughout the incident to communicate ongoing investigation and restoration. User reports were limited during the event.

OpenAI reported a degraded condition impacting the Deep Research component of ChatGPT, where users could not access content from uploaded files. This hindered processing and retrieval of documents uploaded for Deep Research workflows. The issue began at 10:11 PM UTC and lasted about 5 hours and 20 minutes, being resolved by 3:31 AM UTC. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident: the first noted the inability to access uploaded content and that the investigation was underway, and the second confirmed that the Deep Research component had returned to normal.

OpenAI experienced two concurrent issues in late May 2025 affecting different parts of its platform. A data-delivery delay impacted the Compliance API (APIs / Compliance), with users sometimes seeing missing or delayed compliance data. Separately, ChatGPT Conversations faced usage cap errors, displaying messages like 'You've reached the current usage cap' for certain models. The combined impact meant some users could not access expected data or prompts, with reports spanning multiple regions over several days. The Compliance API delays began around 10:31 PM UTC and persisted until 10:01 PM UTC, lasting multiple days. The ChatGPT usage cap issue lasted from 9:32 PM UTC to 1:02 AM UTC (about 3.5 hours).