OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI ChatGPT services experienced a brief degraded performance affecting ChatGPT Web, ChatGPT Mobile on iOS, and ChatGPT Mobile on Android. The incident began at 2:31 PM UTC and was resolved by 3:47 PM UTC, lasting approximately 1 hour and 16 minutes before all components returned to normal.

OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident, first indicating degraded performance and later confirming restoration. The affected components included ChatGPT / Web, ChatGPT / Mobile - iOS, and ChatGPT / Android, indicating a short-lived, multi-platform impact across its chat services.

OpenAI APIs experienced extended degraded performance across 14 API components, including Chat, Completions (legacy), Embeddings, Images, Audio, Files, Realtime, Responses, Moderations, Uploads, Batch, Fine-tuning, Assistants, and Compliance. Users reported failed requests, timeouts, and errors, with reports from the United States, Canada, and Europe indicating a global impact. The outage began at Mar 15, 2025 6:21 PM UTC and persisted for about 2 days and 8 hours, finally resolving by Mar 18, 2025 2:36 AM UTC.

OpenAI APIs / Chat experienced a brief degradation starting at 2:51 PM UTC when the APIs / Chat component transitioned to a degraded state, and it was resolved by 5:11 PM UTC. The incident lasted about 2 hours and 20 minutes and impacted the APIs / Chat component. A single user report from Oklahoma City around 5:07 PM UTC noted prompts not running, indicating user-visible impact for some sessions. The provider published two status updates during the incident, documenting the degraded period and eventual recovery.

The incident began on 7:47 AM UTC and was resolved by 7:51 AM UTC. OpenAI reported a brief degraded performance across 13 API components, including Images, Embeddings, Batch, Audio, Realtime, Assistants, Files, Moderations, Fine-tuning, Uploads, Completions (legacy), Chat, and Compliance. Users may have experienced intermittent latency or partial disruption for a few minutes before services returned to normal. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident. The impact was across multiple components with no region-specific pattern reported.

OpenAI ChatGPT Web experienced a brief period of degraded performance beginning at 5:31 PM UTC and was restored by 8:31 PM UTC. Users may have encountered slower responses or intermittent access while using ChatGPT on the web. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident to communicate the degradation and recovery. Reports were limited, with at least one user reporting issues around 6:30 PM UTC, suggesting the impact was not widespread. The outage affected the ChatGPT / Web component for roughly 3 hours.

OpenAI experienced a brief degradation affecting the ChatGPT / Search component. The incident began at 11:01 PM UTC and was resolved by 12:17 AM UTC, lasting about 1 hour 16 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident to communicate the issue and its restoration, and services returned to normal afterward. Users may have experienced slower responses or degraded search results during the incident, with only the ChatGPT / Search component affected.

OpenAI experienced a brief period of degraded performance affecting the OpenAI APIs and Compliance endpoints. The outage began on 6:36 PM UTC and was resolved by 9:16 PM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 40 minutes. Users may have encountered intermittent latency or errors when calling OpenAI APIs during the incident. OpenAI’s status page documented the issue and issued 2 updates while the incident was active, with services returning to normal after the window. Overall, user report activity was limited.

OpenAI's APIs / Fine-tuning experienced a brief degradation affecting API access and fine-tuning work for about 29 minutes. The incident began at Mar 4, 2025 1:12 AM UTC and was resolved by Mar 4, 2025 1:41 AM UTC. OpenAI's status page listed the APIs / Fine-tuning component as degraded (warn) during the event and then returned to normal, with 2 official status updates issued, indicating a short-lived disruption before service resumed.

OpenAI's APIs / Chat briefly degraded starting at 1:21 AM UTC and was restored by 3:11 AM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 50 minutes. This impacted the APIs / Chat component, with users potentially experiencing slower responses or intermittent access to chat features during the window. The OpenAI status page moved from up to degraded and back to up, issuing two status updates to document the incident.

OpenAI experienced a period of degraded performance for ChatGPT / Voice mode from 12:37 AM UTC to 4:32 AM UTC. During this window, users may have encountered slower responses and reduced voice functionality for ChatGPT. The ChatGPT / Voice mode component was listed as degraded during the incident, with recovery completed at 4:32 AM UTC. The incident lasted approximately 3 hours and 55 minutes.