On July 21, 2026 at 18:36 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting Login with a major impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 23 minutes and the incident has been fully resolved. IsChatGPTDown.chat mirrors this incident from OpenAI's official record; see the official link below for authoritative details.
Incident Facts
All facts below are taken from OpenAI's official incident record. Fields OpenAI did not publish are shown as “Not provided.”
Timeline
Official update history from OpenAI's status page.
- Investigating We are investigating issues affecting logins and account creation for ChatGPT and the API Platform. Users who are already signed in may still be able to use ChatGPT.
- Identified We are seeing recovery for API Platform login functionality. Account creation, organization management, and dashboard access remain affected. We are continuing to investigate.
- Monitoring The affected API Platform functionality has recovered, including login, account creation, organization management, and dashboard access. We are monitoring the recovery.
- Resolved All affected API Platform functionality has now fully recovered.
Related troubleshooting
The affected services are listed above from OpenAI's official record. If you run into a similar problem, the guides below help you check whether it is a current outage or an issue limited to your setup.
Current ChatGPT Status
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