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Is OpenAI down?

Operational

No. OpenAI is up — its own status page reports “All Systems Operational”.

Checked 5 min ago · Aug 19, 05:49 UTC · Official OpenAI status page →

90 days ago 10 of 34 watched days incident-free today

Grey bars are days before PixlRun started reading OpenAI's status page (August 2, 2026). We do not mark a day green unless we were actually watching it. This is not an uptime percentage: we read OpenAI's own status page every 15 minutes, we do not ping the service.

31 Incidents · 30 days logged from the official status page
Aug 18 Last incident 10 hours ago
— Last incident duration no duration we can back up
15 min Check interval automated, around the clock
LIVEOpenAI incident history15 most recent of 39 on record
DateIncidentDurationOutcome
Aug 18, 2026
19:37 UTC		 Elevated errors deploying Sites — Resolved
Aug 14, 2026
22:22 UTC		 Unexpected GPT-5.6 Terra responses — No update
Aug 13, 2026
15:48 UTC		 Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free users 8h 10m Resolved
Aug 13, 2026
14:03 UTC		 Error while creating custom RBAC roles for Enterprise users 10h Resolved
Aug 11, 2026
17:28 UTC		 Users unable to login to ads manager — Resolved
Aug 11, 2026
14:20 UTC		 Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Go conversations — Resolved
Aug 10, 2026
14:04 UTC		 Increased error rates 12h 44m Resolved
Aug 10, 2026
07:21 UTC		 Increased errors for some ChatGPT users 57m Resolved
Aug 6, 2026
23:52 UTC		 Computer use errors in the ChatGPT desktop app 41m Resolved
Aug 5, 2026
17:06 UTC		 Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations with files 3h 13m Resolved
Aug 5, 2026
16:55 UTC		 Issues with Custom GPT actions 5h 53m Resolved
Aug 5, 2026
14:55 UTC		 Elevated errors with image generation 8h 27m Resolved
Aug 4, 2026
12:43 UTC		 Elevated ChatGPT conversation errors affecting Plus, Pro, Business, and Edu users 2h 50m Resolved
Jul 31, 2026
09:06 UTC		 Enterprise & Education Chat Errors 22m Resolved
Jul 30, 2026
14:53 UTC		 Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversations 1h 8m Resolved

Durations come from OpenAI's own resolution notice where it publishes one, otherwise from the span between our first and last reading of that incident. A dash means we could not back a number up.

Is OpenAI down? Questions people ask

Is OpenAI down right now?

No. OpenAI's official status page reported All Systems Operational when we checked it 5 min ago. We re-check every 15 minutes.

How often does OpenAI have outages?

We recorded 31 incidents on OpenAI's official status page in the last 30 days. The most recent one started on August 18, 2026 (19:37 UTC).

Where is OpenAI's official status page?

OpenAI's official status page is https://status.openai.com. PixlRun reads it automatically every 15 minutes and logs each incident on this page.

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