- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Degraded
- Components
- Images, Image Generation
- Down Index
- 24of 100
What to do
Check whether you use OpenAI Images, Image Generation. Check your stack
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Updates from OpenAI 6
- investigating
We’re investigating elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some requests may fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
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- investigating
We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We’ve made changes aimed at reducing failures and are assessing their effect. Some requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
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- investigating
"We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We saw an increase in failed Images API requests after our last update. We’re applying mitigations and assessing their effect. Some image requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more. "
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- identified
We have identified the issue affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some image-generation requests may continue to fail.
provider
- monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
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- resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-d28788d2e6
Is OpenAI still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-08 21:59 UTC. For OpenAI's live state, see https://down.guide/openai.
How long did it last?
7h 27m, from 2026-09-08 14:32 UTC to 2026-09-08 21:59 UTC, by the times OpenAI posted.
What was affected?
OpenAI named Images, Image Generation.
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.