Live status & reliability report

ChatGPT status, outages & reliability

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ChatGPT is OpenAI's AI chat assistant, available on the web, desktop and mobile apps with free and paid individual, team and enterprise plans.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 89 days ChatGPT had 96.84% effective uptime across 84 status page incidents (9 partial or major outages), resolving them in 6h 19m on average.

32.2/100Reliability scoreVisit ChatGPT ↗

Is ChatGPT down right now?

No, ChatGPT is up and running.

  • ChatGPT's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 2 ChatGPT pages we check are responding. Checked .

Official ChatGPT status page ↗

Uptime (90d)96.84%2d 19h weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)8415.4 per 30 days
Major / partial outages9
Avg time to resolve6h 19m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026: 98.31% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 5, 2026: 94.71% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 6, 2026 – Aug 9, 2026: no incidentsAug 10, 2026: 93.30% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 11, 2026: 96.22% uptime, 4 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 12, 2026: no incidentsAug 13, 2026: 93.80% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 14, 2026 – Aug 17, 2026: no incidentsAug 18, 2026: 99.78% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 19, 2026: no incidentsAug 20, 2026: 97.62% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 21, 2026: 96.68% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 22, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026: no incidentsAug 27, 2026: 97.35% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 28, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026: no incidentsAug 31, 2026: 88.75% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 1, 2026: 99.77% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 2, 2026: 99.67% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 3, 2026: 98.39% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 4, 2026: 97.64% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 7, 2026: no incidentsSep 8, 2026: 95.34% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 9, 2026: 98.80% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 10, 2026: 91.19% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 11, 2026: 93.74% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 12, 2026: 98.77% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 13, 2026: 98.55% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 14, 2026: 88.72% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 15, 2026: 97.57% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 16, 2026: 99.47% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 17, 2026: 96.27% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 18, 2026: 98.50% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 19, 2026: 95.07% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 20, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026: no incidentsSep 22, 2026: 99.02% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 23, 2026: 99.31% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 24, 2026: 99.51% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026: no incidentsSep 29, 2026: 96.13% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 30, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 1, 2026: 83.70% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 2, 2026: 88.82% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 3, 2026 – Oct 4, 2026: no incidentsOct 5, 2026: 89.41% uptime, 5 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 6, 2026: 93.31% uptime, 7 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 7, 2026: 76.97% uptime, 4 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 8, 2026: 99.02% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 9, 2026: 91.50% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 10, 2026: 84.35% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 11, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 12, 2026: 89.97% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 13, 2026: 94.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 14, 2026: 93.88% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 15, 2026: 81.43% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 16, 2026: 93.28% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 17, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026: no incidentsOct 19, 2026: 99.56% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 20, 2026: 97.91% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 21, 2026: 99.35% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 22, 2026: 94.61% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 23, 2026: 99.47% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 24, 2026 – Oct 29, 2026: no incidentsOct 30, 2026: 99.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 31, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago96.871% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
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Key facts about ChatGPT's reliability

  • Since Aug 4, 2026, the earliest date its published history covers, ChatGPT published 84 incidents on its status page, 9 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Unable to create new ChatGPT Work threads in latest version of desktop app” on Oct 7, 2026, which lasted 9h 54m.
  • The part of ChatGPT most often affected was Conversations (28 of 84 incidents).
  • ChatGPT's 90-day uptime of 96.84% is below the average for AI chat assistants (99.23%).
  • It resolves incidents more slowly than the typical AI chat assistant: 6h 19m on average, against a median of 3h 52m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
0
96.846% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
2
15.37 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
59
6h 19m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

09182736DecJan ’26FebMarAprMayJunJul1 partial outage incident16 degraded performance incidents17Aug2 partial outage incidents33 degraded performance incidents35Sep6 partial outage incidents23 degraded performance incidents3 informational incidents32OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of ChatGPT's public pages, measured by our probes.

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

ChatGPT incident history (last 90 days)

Source: ChatGPT status page · last checked

Our independent monitoring

We check these public ChatGPT pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
ChatGPT backend API (unauthenticated)Up 100%148 ms
ChatGPT edge (robots.txt)Up 100%115 ms

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ChatGPT status FAQ

Is ChatGPT down right now?

No, ChatGPT is up and running. ChatGPT's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 2 of the ChatGPT pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT has a reliability score of 32.2 out of 100, ranking #7 of 7 AI chat assistants. Over the last 90 days it had 96.84% effective uptime.

How often does ChatGPT have outages?

ChatGPT published 84 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (9 partial or major outages) and 84 in the past 12 months.

How long do ChatGPT outages last?

ChatGPT resolves incidents in 6h 19m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 9h 54m, on Oct 7, 2026.

Does ChatGPT have a status page?

Yes. ChatGPT's official status page is status.openai.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.