OpenAI incident: Elevated Error Rates for ChatGPT across Plus and Pro plans.

1. resolvedSep 23, 2026, 09:54 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringSep 23, 2026, 09:45 UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. identifiedSep 23, 2026, 09:13 UTC

   We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Sep 23, 2026, 09:15 UTCoperational → degraded
• Sep 23, 2026, 09:55 UTCdegraded → operational

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