OpenAI Outage History

The OpenAI ChatGPT web browsing feature was briefly unavailable, preventing ChatGPT from retrieving up-to-date information. The incident began at Jan 14, 2025 11:01 AM UTC and was resolved by Jan 14, 2025 11:21 AM UTC, lasting about 20 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates describing an investigation and subsequent restoration of the browsing capability. The disruption affected users relying on real-time web data within ChatGPT, while other features remained available.

OpenAI reported degraded performance in the Vision API for the gpt-4o-2024-05-13 model, with higher error rates affecting users attempting to use vision features. The incident began at Jan 8, 2025 7:46 PM UTC when OpenAI flagged a degraded performance in the Vision API and launched an investigation. The issue persisted for about 15 minutes before the service returned to normal, with the API component moving from warn to up by Jan 8, 2025 8:01 PM UTC. No regional pattern was specified, suggesting a brief disruption limited to this model's Vision API. The provider issued one status update during the incident and returned to normal shortly after.