OpenAI incident: 6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance

1. resolvedOct 27, 2026, 16:20 UTC

   All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.

2. monitoringOct 27, 2026, 15:40 UTC

   We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.

3. investigatingOct 27, 2026, 15:02 UTC

   We’re investigating a potential issue for the listed services and checking how it affects users. We’ll share an update when we know more.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 27, 2026, 15:04 UTCoperational → degraded
• Oct 27, 2026, 16:24 UTCdegraded → operational

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OpenAI reported 53 incidents in the last 90 days, 9 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 28m. See OpenAI's uptime and incident history