Is OpenAI down right now?
Updated Nov 12, 2026 22:43 UTC. StatusBird re-checks OpenAI's status page every 2 minutes.
- Current state
- Degraded
- Changed
- Nov 12, 2026 18:29 UTC
- Held for
- 4 hours 14 minutes
OpenAI is currently reporting degraded performance as of Nov 12, 2026 22:43 UTC; some users may see slow responses or partial failures. 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.
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OpenAI uptime and incident history
30-day uptime, from checks every 2 minutes.
Over the past 90 days StatusBird recorded 6 major or critical OpenAI incidents totalling 1310 minutes of downtime, for 98.19% availability and a C reliability grade, across 36,235 independent checks. Full history: OpenAI reliability report.
OpenAI's 90-day uptime of 98.19% is below the AI model vendors category average of 99.54% 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 39% (high) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 25% (high). 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.
- 39 degraded-or-worse episodes in the last 180 days
- an episode started in the last 24 hours; incidents cluster
- 6 major outages in the last 180 days
- a major outage started in the last 24 hours; outages cluster
- currently degraded; about a quarter of degradations become major within 6 hours
Scored Nov 12, 2026 22:39 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 November 12, 2026.
- 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.
- A StatusBird account. The free plan monitors 1 service with a live dashboard and a day-after incident digest. Pro ($29/month) checks all 87 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.
- 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.
Detected versus acknowledged
OpenAI takes 30 minutes to 2 hours on average to acknowledge an outage.
Mean 80 minutes across 6 major or critical outages in the last 90 days. 2 of them were never acknowledged at all. How this is measured.
| Outage | Duration | StatusBird detected | Officially acknowledged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 Unable to start new Workspace Agent runs | 582m | 22:51 UTC | Same minute or earlier |
| Oct 21, 2026 Elevated FedRAMP API error rates for Astra and Sol | 32m | 14:17 UTC | Same minute or earlier called it minor |
| Oct 09, 2026 Some ChatGPT content may be unavailable on Android | 206m | 21:01 UTC | Same minute or earlier |
| Oct 07, 2026 Unable to create new ChatGPT Work threads in latest version of desktop app | 382m | 05:32 UTC | Same minute or earlier |
| Oct 01, 2026 | 52m | 18:48 UTC | Never acknowledged |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 56m | 22:59 UTC | Never acknowledged |
How this is measured
The detected column is the first of StatusBird's two-minute checks that read OpenAI as major or critical. The acknowledged column is the moment OpenAI posted an incident on its own status page, taken from the timestamp its status page sets when the incident is published. Both come from OpenAI: its dial moved at one time and it wrote something at another, later time. An outage with no matching post is counted as never acknowledged.
StatusBird publishes no revenue figure here. A Business account with Shopify revenue connected sees a checkout exposure column computed from its own revenue. Full assumptions are on the vendor honesty index.
OpenAI last five incidents
OpenAI outage history: 1 incident with a full recap, each one published while the outage was still running.
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.
| Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Worst status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2026 18:29 | Ongoing | 3 hours 44 minutes so far | degraded |
| Nov 12, 2026 08:53 | Nov 12, 2026 09:25 | 32 minutes | degraded |
| Nov 11, 2026 22:51 | Nov 12, 2026 08:33 | 9 hours 42 minutes | critical |
| Nov 11, 2026 20:47 | Nov 11, 2026 20:53 | 6 minutes | degraded |
| Nov 09, 2026 23:09 | Nov 09, 2026 23:51 | 42 minutes | degraded |
40 episodes in total over the last 90 days, 6 of them major or critical.
OpenAI status FAQ
Is OpenAI down right now?
Yes. OpenAI is reporting a degraded state in StatusBird's independent monitoring. That state began Nov 12, 2026 at 18:29 UTC and has lasted 4 hours 14 minutes. Last checked Nov 12, 2026 at 22:43 UTC.
How often does OpenAI go down?
StatusBird recorded 6 major or critical OpenAI incidents in the last 90 days, totalling 1310 minutes of downtime. That is 98.19% availability and a C reliability grade.
How long do OpenAI outages usually last?
Across the major and critical OpenAI incidents StatusBird measured in the last 90 days, the average length was 20 hours 32 minutes. Counting every non-operational episode, including degraded performance, the average was 6 hours 39 minutes.
What is the chance OpenAI has a problem in the next 24 hours?
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any OpenAI degradation in the next 24 hours at 39% (high) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 25% (high). 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.
How do I get notified when OpenAI goes down?
Use the free email alert form on this page, which needs no account and covers major and critical outages. Or open a StatusBird account: the free plan monitors 1 service with a next-day digest, and Pro at $29 a month checks all 87 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, or subscribe to OpenAI's own status page at status.openai.com.
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"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 November 12, 2026. See the methodology for how these numbers are measured.
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