Outage report · Partial outage
ChatGPT outage on Oct 7, 2026
Unable to create new ChatGPT Work threads in latest version of desktop app
What happened
ChatGPT reported a partial outage starting Oct 7, 2026, 02:00 UTC, affecting Codex in ChatGPT Desktop. It was marked resolved at Oct 7, 2026, 11:53 UTC.
- The incident lasted 9h 54m from first report to resolution.
- It was the longest significant outage ChatGPT reported in the 12 months up to it.
- ChatGPT had reported 4 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 7 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from ChatGPT
We have released an updated app version with the fix for Linux, macOS and Windows. Affected users should update to the latest version.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of ChatGPT started after this incident, so this report is based on ChatGPT's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
ChatGPT's overall reliability
ChatGPT has a reliability score of 32.2/100, with 96.85% effective uptime and 84 incidents over the last 90 days.
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