Is OpenAI down?

Updated Oct 06, 2026 12:40 UTC. StatusBird re-checks OpenAI's status page every 2 minutes.

Current state

Operational

Changed

Oct 06, 2026 08:30 UTC

Held for

4 hours 11 minutes

OpenAI is currently operational as of Oct 06, 2026 12:40 UTC, with no outage reported on its official status page. StatusBird reads OpenAI's status page every 2 minutes and, on the Pro plan, alerts subscribers by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord within that cycle; the free email alert on this page covers major and critical outages with no account.

Done. You'll get an email the moment OpenAI has an outage.

OpenAI uptime and incident history

30-day uptime, from checks every 2 minutes.

Over the past 90 days StatusBird recorded 2 major or critical OpenAI incidents totalling 108 minutes of downtime, for 99.41% availability and a B reliability grade, across 9,275 independent checks. Full history: OpenAI reliability report.

OpenAI's 90-day uptime of 99.41% is below the AI model vendors category average of 99.85% across the 4 services StatusBird monitors in that category.

OpenAI risk in the next 24 hours

StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any OpenAI degradation in the next 24 hours at 6% (normal) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 2% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often OpenAI has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.

• 7 degraded-or-worse episodes in the last 180 days
• an episode in the last 7 days; incidents cluster
• 2 major outages in the last 180 days
• a major outage in the last 7 days; outages cluster

Scored Oct 06, 2026 12:36 UTC, and rescored every 10 minutes. Method: how StatusBird measures and scores.

How do I get notified when OpenAI has an outage?

Three options, from free to full coverage. Plan details are as published on StatusBird's pricing page and status.openai.com as of October 06, 2026.

1. Free email alert on this page. The form above emails you when OpenAI enters a major or critical outage and again when it recovers. No account, no card.
2. A StatusBird account. The free plan monitors 1 service with a live dashboard and a day-after incident digest. Pro ($29/month) checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, with quiet hours and per-service thresholds; Business is $49/month and Agency $99/month. Create a free account.
3. OpenAI's own status page. status.openai.com offers the subscription options on status.openai.com, where available. It is the official record and worth subscribing to alongside any monitor; it updates when OpenAI confirms an incident.

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About OpenAI

Model vendor. StatusBird's own AI-assisted features depend on Anthropic; the rest are monitored because PositionBird and ShopBird, and many merchants' tools, call them.

StatusBird monitors OpenAI every 2 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When an outage or degradation is detected, StatusBird sends instant alerts so you can act before your customers notice. The 30-day uptime percentage and incident history above reflect live data from our monitoring network.

StatusBird's own AI-assisted features call a model vendor, so it publishes what it does when one is unavailable: what happens when an AI vendor is down. Alerts are not affected: they never depend on a model.

OpenAI last five incidents

Every non-operational episode StatusBird measured in the last 90 days, newest first, labelled by the worst status reached. The availability figures above count major and critical outages only.

7 episodes in total over the last 90 days, 2 of them major or critical.

"Every figure we publish comes from the same 2-minute checks that trigger our customers' alerts. We publish the data exactly as we measured it, and anyone is free to cite it."

Sydney Murphy, founder of StatusBird

Cite this data: StatusBird monitoring data, https://statusbird.io/status/openai, accessed October 06, 2026. See the methodology for how these numbers are measured.