Elevated errors for API image generation
Image generation functionality has fully recovered, and error rates have returned to normal levels.
OpenAI API Incident History
This archive holds 28 incidents tagged as affecting the OpenAI API, recorded between 8 April 2026 and 20 August 2026. Just over half (57%) were API-only, meaning consumer ChatGPT kept working while developer traffic was degraded. That pattern is the reason this site reports consumer and developer status separately instead of merging them into one verdict. The components that most often fail alongside the API are image generation (4 incidents), Sora (4) and Codex (3). Figures in this paragraph describe our own stored archive as of 31 August 2026; the archive begins on 7 April 2026, so earlier incidents are not represented.
OpenAI API status
Status temporarily unavailable
The current official refresh failed. This card will not claim a current service state until a fresh response succeeds.
- Audio Operational
- Batch Operational
- Chat Completions Operational
- Embeddings Operational
- Files Operational
- Fine-tuning Operational
- Images Operational
- Login Operational
- Moderations Operational
- Realtime Operational
- Responses Operational
Covers the official API components currently exposed by OpenAI. It does not test an authenticated customer request or model generation.
Elevated Errors for Sora API
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
FedRAMP workspaces and API orgs have degraded performance
All impacted services have now fully recovered.