Minor incident

OpenAI: Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs

Oct 21, 2026, 02:26 UTC

started

03:28 UTC

resolved

1 h 02 min

duration

Current status of OpenAI: Operational — live OpenAI status

Timeline

Oct 21, 2026, 02:26 UTC
investigating
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
Oct 21, 2026, 02:48 UTC
monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
Oct 21, 2026, 03:28 UTC
resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Updates as published by OpenAI.

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