OpenAI incident: Increased error rate for Plus and Pro users.

1. resolvedSep 22, 2026, 10:37 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. investigatingSep 22, 2026, 09:58 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 22, 2026, 10:00 UTCoperational → degraded
• Sep 22, 2026, 10:40 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does OpenAI have incidents?

OpenAI reported 18 incidents in the last 90 days, 4 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 52 min. See OpenAI's uptime and incident history