Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Elevated errors from GPT-5.6 and GPT-5.6 Instant on paid plans

Resolved after 41 m (15 Sep 2026, 07:12–07:53 UTC), impact minor, affecting Conversations.

Timeline

1. 15 Sep 2026 at 07:12 UTC investigating

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. 15 Sep 2026 at 07:24 UTC monitoring

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. 15 Sep 2026 at 07:53 UTC resolved

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Affected components

• ChatGPT · Conversations: degraded for 41 m

Source

OpenAI's own report of this incident, on OpenAI's status page. This page is a record of OpenAI's own report; where the two disagree, theirs is right.

Last checked 30 Oct 2026 at 16:25 UTC.

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