Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare

Resolved after 40 m (15 Sep 2026 23:50 – 16 Sep 2026 00:30 UTC), impact major, affecting Images.

Timeline

1. 15 Sep 2026 at 23:50 UTC investigating

   We are experiencing elevated error rates for image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare in the API. Our team is working to mitigate the issue. We will provide another update as more information becomes available.

2. 15 Sep 2026 at 23:58 UTC monitoring

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. 16 Sep 2026 at 00:30 UTC resolved

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Affected components

• APIs · Images: partial outage for 40 m

What the crowd did

• 0 clicks, 2 zombies at their worst, 2 breaches, over 41 m — the siege in full

That is this site's own record of the crowd at OpenAI's gate, not anything OpenAI published.

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 16:24 UTC.

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