OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI reported elevated errors affecting Audio Transcription, Image Generation, and the Realtime API, with degraded performance for users of ChatGPT and API endpoints. The incident began on 11:27 PM UTC and the status page showed a follow-up update at 11:31 PM UTC as investigators continued. By 12:16 AM UTC, the issue had been resolved and affected components returned to normal. The outage lasted approximately 49 minutes, during which users likely experienced intermittent errors or slower responses across multiple OpenAI features.

OpenAI reported elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Vision starting at Feb 10, 2025 3:02 PM UTC and lasting until Feb 10, 2025 5:57 PM UTC. The degradation impacted users of the ChatGPT Vision feature, with a brief service impact that lasted about 2 hours and 55 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident, noting the investigation and later that the issue had been resolved and services returned to normal.

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.

The OpenAI API experienced elevated batch creation errors that degraded batch processing for users submitting batch jobs. The issue affected the API component and could cause failures or delays when submitting batch requests. The outage began around 4:40 PM Pacific Time on Feb 4, 2025, which corresponds to 12:40 AM UTC, and the API moved toward a degraded state as the incident progressed. The status page indicated the problem at 8:02 PM UTC. The outage lasted about 20 hours and 36 minutes and was restored by 9:16 PM UTC.

During the incident, OpenAI issued 2 status updates describing ongoing investigation and progress toward resolution.

An incident affected the OpenAI API, causing degraded performance for calls involving gpt-4o-mini fine-tuned models. Users experienced slower responses and higher latency while the issue was being investigated. The degraded state began at Feb 4, 2025 11:11 PM UTC and lasted about 45 minutes, with operation returning to normal by Feb 4, 2025 11:56 PM UTC. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident, describing the increased latency and that investigators were active, then confirming restoration of services.

There was limited user reporting during the event, indicating a relatively small footprint across users, and no broader regional impact was noted.

OpenAI reported slower-than-normal ChatGPT response times beginning at 3:52 PM UTC and lasting about four hours. The OpenAI status page showed ChatGPT in a degraded state (warn) while teams investigated. The incident was communicated via two official updates, and the service was restored to normal by 7:54 PM UTC.

Users likely experienced slower replies from ChatGPT during the window, but there was no complete outage across OpenAI services. OpenAI continued to update the status page to reflect investigation progress and eventual remediation.

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced elevated errors and degraded performance, affecting user interactions with the ChatGPT service. Users reported errors and timeouts when generating responses. The incident began on Feb 3, 2025 9:42 PM UTC and was resolved by Feb 4, 2025 12:11 AM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 29 minutes. A handful of user reports were observed during the event, and OpenAI's status page documented the progression of the incident as it moved from investigation toward resolution. The issue was centered on the ChatGPT component and appeared to affect users globally.

The OpenAI status page reported a brief degraded performance affecting conversations with Operator in ChatGPT. An investigation was started and the issue was concentrated on the ChatGPT component. The outage lasted approximately 40 minutes, beginning at 12:57 AM UTC and ending at 1:37 AM UTC. OpenAI posted 2 status updates during the incident and confirmed recovery once the issue was resolved.

OpenAI's ChatGPT service experienced a targeted issue affecting users who employ Custom GPTs, presenting as an Invalid Conversation Body error. The incident began at Jan 31, 2025 7:16 PM UTC and OpenAI indicated they were investigating, noting that regenerating responses could sometimes succeed. The ChatGPT component was listed as degraded during the incident and users attempting Custom GPT workflows were affected.

From Jan 31, 2025 7:16 PM UTC to Jan 31, 2025 10:16 PM UTC, OpenAI issued two status updates, and the ChatGPT component returned to normal by Jan 31, 2025 10:16 PM UTC. The outage lasted approximately 3 hours.

OpenAI ChatGPT briefly degraded during a 21-minute window from Jan 31, 2025 2:41 AM UTC to Jan 31, 2025 3:02 AM UTC. Users attempting to use ChatGPT may have encountered elevated errors and slower responses during this period. The issue was isolated to the ChatGPT component and did not indicate a broader OpenAI service disruption.

The OpenAI status page documented two updates during the incident. The first indicated elevated errors for ChatGPT and that the issue was under investigation. The second announced restoration of normal service as the incident concluded, with ChatGPT returning to standard operation by Jan 31, 2025 3:02 AM UTC. The incident lasted about 21 minutes in total.