OpenAI incident: Elevated error rates for ChatGPT Pro and Plus users

1. resolvedSep 30, 2026, 13:23 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringSep 30, 2026, 10:36 UTC

   All impacted services are recovered, we are continuing to monitor for any reoccurrence.

3. monitoringSep 30, 2026, 05:56 UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

4. identifiedSep 30, 2026, 05:47 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 30, 2026, 10:40 UTCdegraded → operational

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