OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI reported a brief degradation impacting two API components: APIs / Chat and APIs / Responses. The incident began at 8:56 PM UTC and was resolved by 10:06 PM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Users of the Chat and Responses endpoints may have experienced slower responses or intermittent issues during the outage. The provider issued 3 status updates describing the degraded state and the subsequent recovery.

From Mar 26, 2025 9:42 PM UTC to Mar 27, 2025 1:46 AM UTC, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Search experienced degraded performance, with slower responses and intermittent results reported by users attempting to use those features. The outage lasted approximately 4 hours and 4 minutes and was confined to the ChatGPT / Search component, with no other OpenAI services indicated as affected.

The provider's status page documented the degradation and published two official updates during the incident before the service returned to normal at Mar 27, 2025 1:46 AM UTC.

OpenAI experienced widespread degraded performance affecting ChatGPT web and mobile clients and a broad API suite starting at 3:16 PM UTC. Users encountered errors and slower responses across ChatGPT Web, iOS, and Android, while API users faced intermittent failures across multiple endpoints. At the incident peak, about a dozen API components were degraded, including Chat, Embeddings, Batch, Fine-tuning, Assistants, Realtime, Images, Responses, Audio, Files, Completions (legacy), Compliance, Moderations, and Uploads. The issue persisted for roughly 10 hours and 30 minutes, with users reporting intermittent problems during this period. By 1:46 AM UTC the Chat API component had returned to normal and overall stabilization followed as status updates continued.

The outage began at 2:31 PM UTC and was resolved by 3:47 PM UTC. OpenAI ChatGPT web and mobile experiences experienced degraded performance during this interval, with users on the Web, iOS, and Android reporting slower responses and intermittent errors. The outage lasted about 1 hour 16 minutes.

OpenAI's status page communicated the incident with two updates, noting degraded performance for the affected components and then restoration of normal service after the remediation. The incident highlights the temporary disruption to ChatGPT across web and mobile platforms.

The degradation began on Mar 15, 2025 6:21 PM UTC and affected 14 API components including Uploads, Files, Realtime, Responses, Moderations, Batch, Fine-tuning, Assistants, Audio, Embeddings, Images, Completions (legacy), Chat, and Compliance. Users reported intermittent connectivity, timeouts, and errors across multiple OpenAI services, with symptoms like upstream disconnects and pages failing to load. The issue appeared global and the degraded performance persisted for roughly 56 hours until recovery completed on Mar 18, 2025 2:36 AM UTC. OpenAI posted two official status updates during the incident, and user reports peaked around 7:45 PM UTC UTC, illustrating the breadth of impact during the event.

OpenAI's API/Chat experienced degraded performance beginning at 2:51 PM UTC and ending at 5:11 PM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 20 minutes. Users could encounter prompts not executing or slower responses, with the API/Chat component being affected.

OpenAI posted two official status updates during the incident and confirmed recovery once the status returned to up.

OpenAI experienced a brief degraded performance across its API surface affecting 13 components, including Images, Embeddings, Batch, Audio, Realtime, Assistants, Files, Moderations, Fine-tuning, Uploads, Completions (legacy), Chat, and Compliance. The outage began at Mar 11, 2025 7:47 AM UTC and was resolved by Mar 11, 2025 7:51 AM UTC, lasting about 4 minutes. The provider issued 2 status updates during the event. During the incident, users may have seen intermittent latency or sporadic failures, with services returning to normal after the updates. No clear regional pattern was observed.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Web service experienced degraded performance starting at 5:31 PM UTC and was resolved by 8:31 PM UTC. The issue affected the ChatGPT web interface, with users reporting slower responses and intermittent access during the incident. The status page moved from Up to Degraded (warn) and back to Up, with two official updates published during the event. A report from Hackney, United Kingdom at 6:33 PM UTC indicates at least some regional visibility, though overall reports were limited.

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Search component experienced degraded performance beginning at Mar 5, 2025 11:01 PM UTC and resolving at Mar 6, 2025 12:17 AM UTC, lasting approximately 1 hour 16 minutes. Users may have experienced intermittent issues with ChatGPT features and search functionality during this window.

OpenAI's APIs and Compliance components experienced a brief degradation from Mar 5, 2025 6:36 PM UTC to Mar 5, 2025 9:16 PM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 40 minutes. During this window users may have encountered slower responses or intermittent access to API endpoints and Compliance features. OpenAI's status page documented the degraded state and subsequent restoration, with 2 status updates issued during the incident. A small number of user reports corroborated the period of degraded service.