Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Limited availability on gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

Resolved after 40 m (14 Oct 2026, 10:18–10:58 UTC), impact minor, affecting Images.

Timeline

1. 14 Oct 2026 at 10:18 UTC investigating

   We are investigating limited availability when using gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst in the API.

2. 14 Oct 2026 at 10:40 UTC monitoring

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. 14 Oct 2026 at 10:58 UTC resolved

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Affected components

• APIs · Images: degraded for 40 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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