Live status & reliability report

OpenAI API status, outages & reliability

#9 of 11 LLM API providersOperational

The OpenAI API gives developers paid access to OpenAI's GPT, image, audio and embedding models.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 89 days OpenAI API had 98.72% effective uptime across 35 status page incidents (1 partial or major outage), resolving them in 6h 8m on average.

49.0/100Reliability scoreVisit OpenAI API ↗

Is OpenAI API down right now?

No, OpenAI API is up and running.

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

Official OpenAI API status page ↗

Uptime (90d)98.72%1d 3h weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)355.8 per 30 days
Major / partial outages1
Avg time to resolve6h 8m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026: no incidentsAug 5, 2026: 94.71% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 6, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026: no incidentsAug 11, 2026: 99.30% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 12, 2026: no incidentsAug 13, 2026: 94.75% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 14, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026: no incidentsAug 31, 2026: 99.04% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 1, 2026: 88.06% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 2, 2026: 99.67% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 3, 2026 – Sep 7, 2026: no incidentsSep 8, 2026: 95.34% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 9, 2026: 99.74% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 10, 2026: 98.80% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 11, 2026: 98.60% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 12, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026: no incidentsSep 14, 2026: 97.29% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 15, 2026: 99.67% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 16, 2026: 98.93% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 17, 2026: 99.05% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 18, 2026: 98.50% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 19, 2026: 95.07% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 20, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026: no incidentsSep 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, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 1, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 2, 2026: 88.82% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 3, 2026 – Oct 4, 2026: no incidentsOct 5, 2026: 94.89% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 6, 2026: 90.03% uptime, 4 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 7, 2026 – Oct 13, 2026: no incidentsOct 14, 2026: 99.58% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 15, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026: no incidentsOct 19, 2026: 99.56% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 20, 2026: no incidentsOct 21, 2026: 98.63% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 22, 2026: 95.91% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 23, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026: no incidentsOct 27, 2026: 99.18% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 28, 2026 – Oct 29, 2026: no incidentsOct 30, 2026: 97.48% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 31, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago98.737% average daily uptimeToday
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Key facts about OpenAI API's reliability

  • Since Aug 4, 2026, the earliest date its published history covers, OpenAI API published 35 incidents on its status page, 1 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare” on Sep 15, 2026, which lasted 40m.
  • The part of OpenAI API most often affected was Responses (11 of 35 incidents).
  • Incidents most often began on a Tuesday (10 of 35, UTC).
  • OpenAI API's 90-day uptime of 98.72% is below the average for LLM API providers (99.34%).
  • It resolves incidents more slowly than the typical LLM API provider: 6h 8m on average, against a median of 2h 22m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
31
98.729% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
24
5.79 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
60
6h 8m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

0481216DecJan ’26FebMarAprMayJunJul4 degraded performance incidents4Aug1 partial outage incident15 degraded performance incidents16Sep12 degraded performance incidents3 informational incidents15OctNov
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Response time

Daily average response time of OpenAI API'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).

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OpenAI API incident history (last 90 days)

Source: OpenAI API status page · last checked · Subscribe via RSS

Our independent monitoring

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

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
API models endpoint (unauthenticated)Up 100%240 ms
Developer docsUp 100%311 ms

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OpenAI API status FAQ

Is OpenAI API down right now?

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

How reliable is OpenAI API?

OpenAI API has a reliability score of 49.0 out of 100, ranking #9 of 11 LLM API providers. Over the last 90 days it had 98.72% effective uptime.

How often does OpenAI API have outages?

OpenAI API published 35 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (1 partial or major outage) and 35 in the past 12 months.

How long do OpenAI API outages last?

OpenAI API resolves incidents in 6h 8m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 40m, on Sep 15, 2026.

Does OpenAI API have a status page?

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