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ChatGPT

OpenAI conversational AI assistant

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Current status

ChatGPT looks degraded

DegradedDegraded

Some signals suggest a possible issue — may be intermittent or regional.

Partially working — some features may be affected.

Issue score30 / 100
Low riskHigh risk
Data confidence51%

Score based on: official status. No probe results or user reports data available yet.

Evidence

Each independent source we read, in order of weight.

  • Official feed

    concern

    Partial System Degradation (indicator: minor)

  • Community reports

    neutral

    No anonymous reports in the last 24 hours.

View 30-day incident history

Troubleshooting ChatGPT

  1. Check the service's official status page for active incidents.
  2. Verify your API key and authentication headers.
  3. Check your rate limit usage and quota.
  4. Inspect the HTTP status code — 429 means rate-limited, 503 means service unavailable.
  5. Implement retry logic with exponential backoff.
  6. Test outbound connectivity from your own server.
Why does ChatGPT go down?

ChatGPT outages most often look like slow responses, "An error occurred" mid-conversation, or login failures — full hard outages are less common than degraded performance.

Common issues

  • Capacity saturation during peak US/EU hours and around new model releases — Plus and Team users get priority during these events.
  • Model deployment rollbacks, where a new variant misbehaves and gets pulled, briefly affecting which model your conversations route to.
  • "Hmm... something seems to have gone wrong" mid-stream errors, usually a long-running request that exceeded a backend timeout.
  • Auth and login failures, sometimes tied to Cloudflare edge or to the SSO provider on enterprise accounts.

What you can try

  • If responses hang mid-stream, regenerate rather than waiting — the original request is probably already lost.
  • Switch model in the conversation header if one model is misbehaving but others respond fine.
  • Check status.openai.com for component-level breakdown — the API and ChatGPT can be affected independently.

Check upstream dependencies

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