OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI ChatGPT Web users trying to sign in with SSO encountered errors, resulting in a brief degradation of login access. The ChatGPT component was listed as investigating at Jan 29, 2025 9:16 PM UTC, and the issue lasted roughly 11 minutes, with status returning to normal by Jan 29, 2025 9:27 PM UTC. OpenAI posted two status updates during the incident to communicate the ongoing investigation and resolution. User reports were limited, with some users reporting issues around the time, and the impact appeared confined to SSO-based login rather than a broader outage.

OpenAI's ChatGPT web and mobile services experienced a brief outage starting at 8:16 PM UTC with elevated error rates, preventing responses for a portion of users. The disruption lasted about 20 minutes and was resolved by 8:36 PM UTC. OpenAI posted two status updates during the incident, noting an ongoing investigation and later restoration of normal operations. The event indicates a broad impact across users accessing ChatGPT on both web and mobile platforms. A large volume of user reports followed the outage, suggesting widespread impact across regions.

OpenAI's Sora video generation component experienced a brief outage impacting video creation. The incident began at 6:56 PM UTC and was resolved by 7:22 PM UTC, lasting about 26 minutes. During the incident, users attempting to generate videos encountered errors, and OpenAI issued two status updates to communicate the situation. The issue was isolated to the Sora component with no broader impact to other OpenAI services.

The OpenAI Sora video generation feature experienced a brief outage with elevated errors during video creation. The incident began on 6:12 PM UTC and was resolved by 6:27 PM UTC, lasting about 15 minutes. OpenAI posted two status updates during the incident, indicating that Sora was briefly unavailable and later returned to normal. The impact was limited to the Sora component, with no reported issues affecting other OpenAI services, and no regional pattern was noted.

OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced an outage on Jan 23, 2025 1:16 PM UTC with elevated errors as OpenAI began investigating. The incident advanced to a full outage by Jan 23, 2025 3:12 PM UTC, and ChatGPT was unavailable for about 55 minutes before services were restored by Jan 23, 2025 4:07 PM UTC. During the window, users reported errors ranging from failed page loads to gateway errors when trying to access ChatGPT.

OpenAI published three status updates during the incident, detailing initial investigation, ongoing monitoring, and eventual restoration. The ChatGPT component was the affected service, and a broad set of user reports indicated widespread impact during the outage.

OpenAI experienced an elevated error rate affecting ChatGPT and the API, resulting in degraded performance for users. The incident began at 12:02 PM UTC and was resolved by 12:46 PM UTC, lasting about 44 minutes. A sizable volume of user reports accompanied the issue, indicating broad impact across environments using OpenAI services.

The OpenAI status page posted two updates during the incident, first noting ongoing investigation and then confirming resolution as services returned to normal.

The OpenAI Embeddings API experienced high error rates, resulting in degraded performance for embedding requests. Users attempting to generate embeddings may have encountered failures or slower responses, impacting workflows that rely on the Embeddings API. The issue affected the Embeddings API component.

OpenAI reported a brief degraded performance in the API affecting the 4o and 4o-mini models, with high error rates observed. The outage began at Jan 20, 2025 3:57 AM UTC and was resolved by Jan 20, 2025 4:17 AM UTC. During the incident, requests to those models could fail or experience increased latency.

OpenAI's status page indicated the issue and that they were investigating; the API returned to normal after about 20 minutes.

OpenAI's DALL-E API experienced a brief outage with a high error rate, disrupting image generation requests. The incident began on 10:56 PM UTC and lasted about 41 minutes, with the DALL-E API showing degraded performance during the window. OpenAI's status page indicated an ongoing investigation and noted the affected component as the DALL-E API.

OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident and confirmed that the issue was resolved by 11:37 PM UTC. After the recovery, DALL-E API requests returned to normal with services restored. The impact appeared isolated to the DALL-E API, with no broader issues reported for OpenAI's platform.

OpenAI reported a scattered network issue that may impact ChatGPT users. The incident began when the status changed to a degraded condition at Jan 15, 2025 4:08 PM UTC and affected the ChatGPT component, with users experiencing login loops and unresponsive requests. The provider documented the investigation and noted that the issue could degrade the ChatGPT experience across regions.

Over roughly two hours, OpenAI issued two status updates, guiding users through investigation and resolution. The issue appears to have begun in various regions and then subsided, with the ChatGPT service returning to normal by Jan 15, 2025 6:21 PM UTC. User reports described login loops and the GUI not responding to input, consistent with a scattered network disruption.