Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode

Resolved after 8 h 26 m (13 Oct 2026, 08:10–16:36 UTC), impact minor, affecting Codex Web, CLI, VS Code extension, Codex API and ChatGPT Work.

Timeline

1. 13 Oct 2026 at 08:10 UTC investigating

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. 13 Oct 2026 at 08:18 UTC investigating

   Degraded performance on GPT 6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode

3. 13 Oct 2026 at 08:22 UTC investigating

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

4. 13 Oct 2026 at 09:30 UTC monitoring

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

5. 13 Oct 2026 at 16:36 UTC resolved

   We have resolved the issue causing degraded performance with GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex and ChatGPT Work.

Affected components

• Codex · Codex Web: degraded for 8 h 18 m
• Codex · CLI: degraded for 8 h 18 m
• Codex · VS Code extension: degraded for 8 h 18 m
• Codex · Codex API: degraded for 8 h 18 m
• ChatGPT · ChatGPT Work: degraded for 8 h 18 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 16:27 UTC.

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