# Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare

- Provider: [OpenAI](https://down.guide/providers/openai)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 40m
- started 2026-09-15 23:50 UTC
- Images
- id: DWN-b3b7dcf707
- Official page: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M2KQNE5C42NEZPX6V01NHH5W

## Updates from OpenAI
### 2026-09-15 23:50 UTC: investigating
We are experiencing elevated error rates for image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare in the API.
Our team is working to mitigate the issue. We will provide another update as more information becomes available.

### 2026-09-15 23:58 UTC: monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

### 2026-09-16 00:30 UTC: resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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