- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Partial outage
- Down Index
- 18of 100
What to do
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Updates from OpenAI 2
- investigating
Some users near Illinois experienced authentication errors with the API, ChatGPT, and Codex.
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- resolved
On October 20, from 9:35 to 10:35 a.m. PDT, some users near Illinois experienced authentication errors with the API, ChatGPT, and Codex. We rolled back a configuration change, and service was restored.
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-07d2627511
Is OpenAI still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-10-20 17:35 UTC. For OpenAI's live state, see https://down.guide/openai.
How long did it last?
0m, from 2026-10-21 22:36 UTC to 2026-10-20 17:35 UTC, by the times OpenAI posted.
What caused it?
OpenAI hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
OpenAI's official status page, https://status.openai.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.