OpenAI incident: Limited availability on gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

1. resolvedOct 14, 2026, 10:58 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringOct 14, 2026, 10:40 UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. investigatingOct 14, 2026, 10:18 UTC

   We are investigating limited availability when using gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst in the API.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 14, 2026, 09:55 UTCdegraded → operational
• Oct 14, 2026, 10:19 UTCoperational → degraded
• Oct 14, 2026, 10:59 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does OpenAI have incidents?

OpenAI reported 48 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