Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Elevated Error Rates for ChatGPT across Plus and Pro plans.

Resolved after 41 m (23 Sep 2026, 09:13–09:54 UTC), impact minor, affecting Conversations.

Timeline

1. 23 Sep 2026 at 09:13 UTC identified

   We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

2. 23 Sep 2026 at 09:45 UTC monitoring

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. 23 Sep 2026 at 09:54 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 16:28 UTC.

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