OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI reported a brief login issue affecting multiple services, including APIs / Login, Sora / Login, and ChatGPT / Login. Users could not sign in during the incident, resulting in login failures for about 10 minutes. The outage began at 5:11 PM UTC and was resolved by 5:21 PM UTC. OpenAI issued two status updates as engineers worked to restore access, after which affected services returned to normal.

OpenAI reported a brief degradation in ChatGPT Conversations starting at 3:41 PM UTC, with users experiencing increased errors during chats. The issue affected the ChatGPT Conversations component and lasted about 10 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident as engineers investigated and worked to restore normal service, with the system returning to normal by 3:51 PM UTC.

OpenAI experienced a brief degradation in ChatGPT Conversations, with users potentially seeing increased errors during conversations. The outage began at Jun 16, 2025 2:11 PM UTC and was resolved by Jun 16, 2025 2:28 PM UTC, for a duration of about 17 minutes. The OpenAI status page documented an investigation and subsequently confirmed resolution, with two official updates issued during the incident. The impact appeared limited to ChatGPT Conversations, with no wider OpenAI services reported as affected.

OpenAI experienced a brief authentication issue impacting the ChatGPT login flow. Users attempting to sign in may have encountered errors or delays, resulting in degraded access to ChatGPT during the incident. The ChatGPT / Login component transitioned from up to warn at 6:37 PM UTC and returned to up at 8:32 PM UTC, for a total duration of about 1 hour and 55 minutes.

OpenAI posted two official updates during the incident, noting that login access was returning to normal and services were restored. The disruption was isolated to the ChatGPT / Login component, with no broader services affected.

OpenAI experienced degraded image generation performance affecting ChatGPT image generation and the Images API. Users may have encountered errors or slower image generation. The incident began at 3:01 PM UTC when OpenAI flagged increased error rates in Image Generation and the Images API; the status then moved from up to warn. The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident, and the services returned to normal at 4:46 PM UTC, for a total duration of about 1 hour and 45 minutes. Affected components included ChatGPT / Image Generation and APIs / Images.

OpenAI reported elevated error rates across ChatGPT and related APIs beginning at Jun 10, 2025 7:11 AM UTC. Users experienced degraded performance and failures across ChatGPT web, mobile, and API usage, including image generation, login, and chat functionalities. The incident affected dozens of components across ChatGPT and APIs, resulting in broad but not total disruption for users. The outage lasted about 38 hours, with recovery progressing in stages over the next day.

OpenAI's ChatGPT search functionality experienced a brief degradation affecting the ChatGPT / Search component. The outage began on 10:01 PM UTC and was resolved by 11:36 PM UTC, lasting approximately 1 hour and 35 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident, noting degraded search and that they were investigating before confirming recovery. User reports during the period described difficulties with search tasks; in one case, a user reported issues with exporting generated canvas content. The incident did not indicate a broader outage across other OpenAI services.

OpenAI experienced an elevated error rate for file uploads that affected ChatGPT file uploads and API file uploads. The incident began at 4:26 PM UTC and lasted about 1 hour and 6 minutes, with users encountering upload failures rather than successful transfers. OpenAI issued 3 status updates as they investigated and worked to restore functionality, and the issue was resolved by 5:32 PM UTC. The volume of user reports was small, indicating a limited overall impact, but those relying on file upload features were affected during the window. Affected components included ChatGPT / File uploads and APIs / Files.

OpenAI's Deep Research feature within ChatGPT experienced a degraded performance that prevented access to content from uploaded files. The outage began on 10:11 PM UTC and was resolved by 3:31 AM UTC, lasting about 5 hours and 20 minutes. The outage affected the ChatGPT / Deep Research component, limiting users' ability to work with uploaded content.

OpenAI's status page tracked the incident, with an initial update noting the Deep Research issue was under investigation and preventing access to uploaded content, followed by a resolution update when services returned to normal. The incident involved 2 official status updates and was confined to the ChatGPT / Deep Research component.

OpenAI faced two global incidents affecting different parts of its platform. The Compliance API experienced data delays starting May 28, 2025 10:31 PM UTC and remained degraded for several days before returning to normal on Jun 3, 2025 10:01 PM UTC. Separately, ChatGPT began reporting usage cap errors on May 30, 2025 9:32 PM UTC, with user prompts timing out or failing to respond. The issues impacted users across regions, causing degraded data processing and chat interactions without a full service outage.

OpenAI posted four status updates during the incident, detailing investigation steps and mitigation progress. For the ChatGPT issue, mitigation was applied and recovery monitored, with service returning to normal by May 31, 2025 1:02 AM UTC. For the Compliance API, remediation and testing progressed until the component was restored by Jun 3, 2025 10:01 PM UTC. The outage was global in reach, as reflected by widespread user reports across many locations.