OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced elevated errors starting at Feb 19, 2025 6:46 PM UTC and resolved by Feb 19, 2025 7:11 PM UTC. Free-tier users recovered quickly, while paid users continued to see issues during this brief incident, indicating a partial outage affecting the ChatGPT component.

OpenAI published 2 status updates during the incident to describe the issue and ongoing fixes. User reports began around 6:00 PM UTC and persisted through the event, suggesting a widespread but short-lived disruption of the ChatGPT service.

OpenAI faced a brief login issue that affected authentication across API, ChatGPT, and Sora. The incident involved 3 components and lasted about 40 minutes, beginning at Feb 18, 2025 11:21 PM UTC and concluding by Feb 19, 2025 12:01 AM UTC. OpenAI issued two status updates, first noting investigations into increased login issues and later confirming restoration of services as operations returned to normal.

OpenAI's API experienced a brief degradation related to the gpt-4o-2024-11-20 model. The issue caused errors for API calls and was reflected in the OpenAI status page as a transition from up to a degraded state and back to normal. The incident lasted about five minutes, beginning at 3:51 AM UTC and ending at 3:56 AM UTC. OpenAI issued two status updates during the event, noting that a fix was in progress and later confirming the service had been restored.

OpenAI reported an outage affecting Audio Transcription, Image Generation, and the Realtime API, causing elevated errors for users trying to transcribe audio, generate images, or access real-time features. The incident started at Feb 10, 2025 11:27 PM UTC and was resolved by Feb 11, 2025 12:16 AM UTC, lasting roughly 49 minutes. The status page showed two components impacted (API and ChatGPT) and reflected three status updates during the event as the company moved from investigating to resolution.

OpenAI’s communications noted ongoing investigation across the API and ChatGPT components, with the service returning to normal after the final update. The disruption was limited to the affected features and did not indicate a broader regional impact based on the available data.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Vision feature experienced elevated errors, resulting in degraded vision functionality for users. The incident began at 3:02 PM UTC and was resolved by 5:57 PM UTC, lasting approximately 2 hours and 55 minutes.

OpenAI posted an investigation update and later restored the ChatGPT Vision component to normal. The status page showed an initial investigation and a subsequent resolution, reflecting the end of the outage.

OpenAI experienced a brief degradation starting at 4:31 AM UTC that affected ChatGPT, the API, and Sora. Users reported errors and unresponsiveness during the incident. User reports surged in the early minutes of the outage. The incident lasted about 21 minutes, and four status updates were published by OpenAI detailing the progression: by 4:37 AM UTC ChatGPT and Sora were degraded while the API continued with issues; by 4:46 AM UTC API and Sora began recovering, with ChatGPT still recovering. ChatGPT returned to normal by 4:52 AM UTC and services stabilized afterward.

OpenAI experienced a brief outage affecting ChatGPT with intermittent unresponsiveness and degraded performance for API and Sora. Users across regions reported errors and slow responses when using ChatGPT, and API/Sora endpoints showed degraded performance during the incident. The outage began at 4:31 AM UTC and was resolved by 4:52 AM UTC, lasting about 21 minutes.

OpenAI experienced elevated errors in the Batch API during batch creation, causing degraded batch operations for users attempting to submit or manage batches. The issue affected the API component and led to intermittent failures and delays in batch processing. The incident lasted about 1 hour and 14 minutes, beginning at Feb 5, 2025 8:02 PM UTC and ending at Feb 5, 2025 9:16 PM UTC, with two official status updates from OpenAI during the period.

OpenAI experienced a brief period of degraded performance on the OpenAI API, primarily impacting requests using gpt-4o-mini fine-tuned models. A user reported slower responses around 10:45 PM UTC. The incident began when the API status moved to a degraded state at 11:11 PM UTC and lasted about 45 minutes, until 11:56 PM UTC. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident as they investigated and worked toward restoration.

The API returned to normal after the final update, with users reporting improved performance as the service stabilized.

OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced slower-than-normal response times, impacting users during chat interactions. The incident began with a status update at Feb 4, 2025 3:52 PM UTC when ChatGPT was listed as degraded and engineers began investigating the issue.

Over the course of the incident, OpenAI issued two status updates and worked to restore normal performance. The issue affected the ChatGPT component and persisted for about 4 hours and 2 minutes, until Feb 4, 2025 7:54 PM UTC when the status returned to normal.