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Is OpenAI Down Right Now?

OpenAI is an AI research company that develops ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and other AI models powering applications worldwide. Check live server status, AI-detected outage signals, and community reports below.

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Our probeReachable · 24ms

Possible degradation

Server is responding but either slowly or with client-error status codes.

What this means
OpenAI is responding but appears degraded — slow response or 4xx/5xx errors observed. Some users may see partial failures.
DegradedSynthetic Check
No major incidents detected in the last 30 minutes
openai.com
403
HTTP Status
24ms
Latency
08:16:23
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Outage history
Outage Evidence
Synthesized from probe, status page, reports, and external signals
VerdictPossible degradation
Live probeHTTP 403 · 24ms · reachable · one region · multi-region Q1 2026
Official statusNot detected
User reports0 reports in last 24h
External signalsNo fresh signals from X, Reddit, news, or third-party status monitors (last 72h)
Automated source summary
Unable to gather web intelligence at this time.
No signals
Automated source scan. Always verify critical incidents with the official provider status page.
0reports / 24h
Signals behind this result3 signals observed
HTTP probe
Responded 403 in 24ms
Normal
DNS resolution
Resolved in 1ms
Normal
Response latency
24ms round-trip
Normal
Down for everyone or just you?
Down for everyone
Our probe fails · Server-side outage · Status page incident
Just you
Our probe succeeds · Try: clear cache, switch network, disable VPN
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OpenAI Not Working? Try These Fixes

  1. 1Check OpenAI's official status page at status.openai.com for active incidents
  2. 2Refresh the page — ChatGPT sessions can timeout during periods of high demand
  3. 3Try again in a few minutes — OpenAI often has capacity limits during peak hours
  4. 4Clear your browser cache and cookies for chat.openai.com and openai.com
  5. 5If the API is failing, check your API key and rate limits in your OpenAI dashboard
  6. 6Switch from ChatGPT Plus to GPT-4 API or vice versa to isolate the issue
  7. 7Check if the issue is with ChatGPT specifically vs. the OpenAI API — they can have separate outages
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