OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI experienced issues in the Android sign-up flow for ChatGPT when using Google Authentication, affecting the ChatGPT / Login component. Users attempting to sign up with Google on Android may have encountered errors during the incident, interrupting the onboarding flow.

OpenAI experienced a brief degraded experience for some ChatGPT users due to subscription renewal issues impacting the ChatGPT / Login component. The incident began at Jan 30, 2026 6:01 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 30, 2026 8:37 PM UTC, lasting approximately 2 hours and 36 minutes. The service issued 2 status updates during the incident to communicate the status and mitigation steps.

OpenAI reported an intermittent issue affecting image generation across ChatGPT, Sora, and the Images API. Users experienced degraded or inconsistent image generation performance during the incident. The degradation began at Jan 28, 2026 1:31 AM UTC and was resolved by Jan 28, 2026 2:16 AM UTC, lasting about 45 minutes. OpenAI published two status updates during the incident, noting mitigation was applied and recovery was being monitored.

OpenAI ChatGPT and Codex experienced degraded performance with user reports of unresponsiveness and timeouts. The incident began at 9:06 AM UTC and was resolved by 11:06 AM UTC, indicating a roughly two-hour window of degraded service. Reports from Manchester, Lisbon, Utrecht, and Hong Kong show a global impact on interactive chat and coding tasks across ChatGPT and Codex. OpenAI posted two status updates during the incident, noting an elevated Codex error rate and restoration of services.

OpenAI reported degraded availability for free-tier ChatGPT users, with elevated errors affecting a broad set of features. The issue impacted 13 components, including Conversations, Compliance API, Search, File uploads, Voice mode, GPTs, Agent, Codex, ChatGPT Atlas, Connectors, Image Generation, Deep Research, and Login, leading to messaging errors and overall performance issues for non-paying users. User reports were limited, suggesting a relatively contained visibility of the impact.

OpenAI experienced a brief degradation affecting the ChatGPT / Codex components, with some users unable to access the chat interface at platform.openai.com/chat. The incident began at Jan 22, 2026 2:26 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 22, 2026 2:57 PM UTC, lasting about 31 minutes. Affected users reported issues loading the chat page while other OpenAI services were not indicated as affected.

OpenAI documented the incident on its status page, issuing two updates during the event: an investigation notice and a confirmation of restoration. The disruption appeared limited to ChatGPT / Codex, with user reports corroborating the time window around the outage.

OpenAI reported elevated error rates affecting ChatGPT / Conversations for a brief period. Users may have encountered issues when interacting with ChatGPT conversations. The incident began at 12:06 AM UTC and was resolved by 12:26 AM UTC, lasting about 20 minutes. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident as they investigated, with the ChatGPT Conversations component returning to normal after the disruption.

OpenAI experienced a brief outage affecting the ChatGPT / Connectors component, making Connectors/Apps unselectable in the ChatGPT Input Menu. The outage began on Jan 12, 2026 7:37 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 12, 2026 7:46 PM UTC, lasting 9 minutes. OpenAI's status page posted two updates during the incident: the first noted an investigation into the Connectors/Apps issue in the ChatGPT Input Menu, and the second confirmed resolution and return to normal operation. The incident appeared isolated to this feature, with no broad service impact reported.

OpenAI reported an issue where prompts containing images triggered errors in ChatGPT conversations and related API endpoints (Chat Completions and API Responses). Users experienced failures or degraded responses when including images in prompts, impacting workflows that rely on image-enabled interactions. The incident affected three components: ChatGPT / Conversations, APIs / Chat Completions, and APIs / Responses. The outage began on 8:26 PM UTC and was resolved by 9:21 PM UTC, lasting approximately 55 minutes. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident describing the investigation and resolution. The issue appeared limited to image-related prompts with no broader service impact indicated.

OpenAI experienced a brief degradation affecting Codex-related tasks within ChatGPT services. Users reported Codex cloud tasks failing to respond or generate replies during the incident window. The outage began at Jan 8, 2026 2:16 AM UTC and ended at Jan 8, 2026 2:31 AM UTC, lasting about 15 minutes.

OpenAI posted two status updates during the incident: the first indicated an investigation was underway; the second confirmed that the Codex components had returned to normal. The impact appeared limited to Codex tasks with no widespread disruption to other OpenAI services.