Overview

• Elevated error rates have disrupted all paying ChatGPT users since 8:38 a.m. ET today, though free accounts are operating normally.
• OpenAI confirmed the partial outage on its status page and diagnosed the underlying issue within minutes of its onset.
• Over 1,500 incident reports in the United States and nearly 1,000 in the United Kingdom have been logged on Down Detector.
• OpenAI engineers are implementing a mitigation strategy designed to restore full service functionality to affected users.
• This interruption appears less severe than past multi-hour outages, suggesting incremental improvements in ChatGPT’s operational resilience.