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OpenAI API

OpenAI API for GPT-4, DALL-E, and Whisper

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Current status

OpenAI API 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 OpenAI API

  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 OpenAI API go down?

OpenAI API outages tend to look like elevated 500 / 503 rates, slow time-to-first-token, or specific models being temporarily unavailable — rather than the whole API going down.

Common issues

  • Specific model variants (gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4-turbo, etc.) being down while others respond fine.
  • Rate-limit errors during model launches and demand spikes.
  • Streaming responses cutting off mid-stream — usually a load-balancer or upstream timeout.
  • Whisper / DALL-E / embeddings failing independently of chat completions.
  • Response latency that looks like an outage but is just elevated p99 during peak hours.

What you can try

  • Check status.openai.com for per-component status (API, ChatGPT, Sora, Realtime).
  • For 5xx errors, exponential backoff and retry — most resolve within a few seconds.
  • Pin to a versioned model (e.g. gpt-4o-2024-11-20) rather than the floating alias for production code.

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