Incidentsby GlyphOpenAI outage history and postmortems
AI · San Francisco, US · 80 incidents in 90 days · 96.4% implied uptime · last 25h ago
Ongoing now
Checked 1h 22m ago2d agoWe’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.
History
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models.
The last year, day by day
Downtime, added up
OpenAI: 3d 5h weighted downtime in range, category median 49m.
80 incidents, 9 major or critical, 13d 5h of incident time (20h 38m major or critical, 12d 8h partial), longest 2d 22h, implied uptime 96.4%, between Aug 12, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
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Questions
Is OpenAI down right now?
Check OpenAI's own status page at https://status.openai.com for the live state. This page shows OpenAI's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-11-08: "Elevated errors with image generation".
How often does OpenAI have outages?
OpenAI posted 80 incidents in the last 90 days and 80 in the last year, 9 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 1h 38m.
When was OpenAI's last major outage?
2026-10-20: "Authentication errors for some users", lasting 1h.
What usually causes OpenAI incidents?
Where OpenAI explained the cause, the most common was deployment or rollout (1 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.