OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Conversations experienced a brief degraded performance with elevated error rates affecting users trying to converse with ChatGPT. The incident began at Jan 14, 2026 12:06 AM UTC and was resolved by Jan 14, 2026 12:26 AM UTC, lasting roughly 20 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates during the event, noting initial investigation and later restoration of normal service. The impact was limited to ChatGPT / Conversations interactions during the window.

An incident affected the ability to select Connectors/Apps in the ChatGPT Input Menu, impacting users attempting to add or configure integrations. The issue began at Jan 12, 2026 7:37 PM UTC and resolved about 9 minutes later, with the ChatGPT component returning to normal after interventions. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident describing the fix and the restoration of normal functionality.

OpenAI reported a degraded performance incident affecting prompts that include images. Users experienced higher error rates and slower responses when using ChatGPT conversations and the API endpoints for Chat Completions and API Responses. The incident began at Jan 8, 2026 8:26 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 8, 2026 9:21 PM UTC, lasting about 55 minutes.

OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident to communicate the issue and the subsequent recovery. The disruption affected three components: ChatGPT / Conversations, APIs / Chat Completions, and APIs / Responses.

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Codex component experienced a brief partial outage as some Codex cloud tasks failed, causing degraded Codex-related functionality for users. Some users reported errors or delays with Codex-powered tasks, and a sample report noted replies not loading.

The incident began at 2:16 AM UTC and was resolved by 2:31 AM UTC, lasting approximately 15 minutes. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident, acknowledging the issue and confirming recovery. By the end of the incident, OpenAI services returned to normal operation.

OpenAI experienced a brief degradation of the Responses API, with elevated error rates affecting the Responses endpoints from 11:06 PM UTC to 11:56 PM UTC. The OpenAI status page listed elevated errors and noted a mitigation was in progress, followed by a final update indicating the service had returned to normal. The incident was isolated to the Responses API component and did not indicate broader impact across OpenAI services. The OpenAI status page issued 2 updates during the incident.

OpenAI reported degraded performance affecting a broad set of ChatGPT components beginning at Jan 6, 2026 7:37 PM UTC. The incident impacted 13 components including ChatGPT / Image Generation, ChatGPT / Voice mode, ChatGPT / Login, ChatGPT / Compliance API, ChatGPT / Search, ChatGPT / File uploads, ChatGPT / Conversations, ChatGPT / GPTs, ChatGPT / Deep Research, ChatGPT / Agent, ChatGPT / Codex, ChatGPT Atlas, and ChatGPT / Connectors. Users experienced issues such as video requests hanging, pages loading slowly or failing, and login difficulties.

OpenAI APIs experienced a short degraded performance due to an elevated error rate tied to the GPT-5.1 Codex Max feature. Users began reporting issues by 8:30 AM UTC. The APIs / Responses component was listed as degraded at Jan 6, 2026 9:06 AM UTC and the problem persisted until Jan 6, 2026 9:56 AM UTC, lasting about 50 minutes. During this window, API calls could be slower or fail for some users.

OpenAI stated that mitigation had been applied and they were monitoring the recovery, with the status returning to normal by Jan 6, 2026 9:56 AM UTC. The disruption was limited to the APIs / Responses component and did not indicate broader impact.

OpenAI experienced a partial outage affecting loading of conversation history and downloading files from Custom GPTs, impacting ChatGPT Conversations and GPTs. The incident began at 3:57 AM UTC and was resolved by 9:41 AM UTC, lasting about 5 hours and 44 minutes. During the incident, OpenAI issued three status updates documenting the issue and mitigation steps.

A subset of Android users reported elevated errors when using OpenAI's ChatGPT. The incident began at 8:36 PM UTC and lasted about 1 hour, with service restored by 9:37 PM UTC. OpenAI indicated issues across 14 ChatGPT components, including ChatGPT Agent, Conversations, Login, Image Generation, Deep Research, and other related services. A small number of user reports were observed, with symptoms such as failures loading or interacting with ChatGPT on Android devices.

OpenAI communicated via its status page with two updates during the event: an initial note of degraded performance across Android users and a follow-up confirming restoration to normal operation. The impact appeared confined to Android users and the outage resolved within an hour, with affected components returning to normal as updates progressed.

OpenAI's Sora API experienced elevated error rates beginning at Dec 19, 2025 6:16 AM UTC, with users reporting failures when generating images and related Sora tasks. The issue affected the APIs / Sora component, causing intermittent outages and degraded functionality for a subset of users. The incident lasted approximately 45 minutes and was resolved by Dec 19, 2025 7:01 AM UTC.

The OpenAI status page issued two updates during the incident, noting increased error rates and the initiation of mitigation efforts. Reports of service disruption came from multiple locations worldwide, indicating a broad, though not global, impact on users relying on Sora API features.