Is OpenAI down right now?
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Live latency (probe round-trip, ms)
User reports, last 24 hours
Outage history
Episodes we recorded for OpenAI, based on our own checks. An episode opens on the second check that finds a problem — a single adverse reading is not reported — and closes when a check finds the service normal again.
What OpenAI reported
Taken from OpenAI's own published incident feed. These are their words about their own service, shown here so you can compare them with what we measured. Scheduled maintenance and test posts are filtered out.
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Is OpenAI down right now?
No evidence of problems with OpenAI. Our last recorded check found it behaving normally. That does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.
Every check runs a four-tier cascade and stops at the first tier that gives a clear answer: OpenAI's official status feed, then a direct HTTP probe, then an ICMP network ping, and finally crowdsourced reports from visitors. The Verification tier box above tells you which one produced the verdict you are looking at.
OpenAI (openai.com) is re-checked about every 30 seconds, and this page picks up any change within 15 seconds, with no refresh needed.
Common OpenAI problems users report
- Chat responses hanging on an endless 'thinking' state
- API calls returning 429/529 capacity errors
- Login and session-verification failures
- Unusually slow or truncated model outputs
What to do when OpenAI is not working
First check the banner above. If it shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on OpenAI's side and waiting is usually the only option. If it shows nothing wrong, the problem may still be local or specific to your region, so it is worth trying these: restart the app, switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, flush your DNS cache, and check whether a VPN or firewall is interfering.
About OpenAI
OpenAI operates ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. Because so many products embed its models, an OpenAI incident surfaces as broken AI features across thousands of downstream apps, timeouts mid-conversation and stuck 'thinking' spinners.
How outage detection works
We combine machine probes with human signals. When the volume of "Report a problem" clicks passes our alert threshold, we flag likely problems even before OpenAI's own status page catches up.
Official OpenAI resources
Cross-check an incident with the company's own channels:
- Official OpenAI status page (their own incident dashboard)
- OpenAI help center (support articles and contact options)
- @OpenAI on X (often the fastest official acknowledgement)
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