Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page
OpenAI incident: Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs
Resolved after 1 h 1 m (21 Oct 2026, 02:26–03:28 UTC), impact minor, affecting Login, File uploads, Voice mode, Search, Conversations, Images, Batch, Chat Completions, Audio, Fine-tuning, Realtime, Files, Embeddings, Moderations, Compliance API, Responses, Image Generation, GPTs, Agent, Deep Research, Codex Web, Connectors/Apps, CLI, Codex in ChatGPT Desktop, Codex API, ChatGPT Work, Sites, Space, dots, Decisions, Agents and Live.
Timeline
- investigating
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Affected components
- ChatGPT · Login: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · File uploads: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Voice mode: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Search: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Conversations: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Images: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Batch: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Chat Completions: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Audio: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Fine-tuning: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Realtime: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Files: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Embeddings: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Moderations: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Compliance API: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Responses: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Image Generation: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · GPTs: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Agent: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Login: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Deep Research: degraded for 21 m
- Codex · Codex Web: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Connectors/Apps: degraded for 21 m
- Codex · CLI: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Codex in ChatGPT Desktop: degraded for 21 m
- Codex · Codex API: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · ChatGPT Work: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Sites: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · Space: degraded for 21 m
- ChatGPT · dots: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Decisions: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Agents: degraded for 21 m
- APIs · Live: degraded for 21 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.
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