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We are seeing elevated error rates across API models

Degraded Lasted 1h · started · OpenAI's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Images, Batch, Chat Completions, Audio, Fine-tuning, Realtime, Files, Embeddings, Moderations, Responses, Login
Down Index
26of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use OpenAI Images, Batch, Chat Completions, Audio and 7 more. Check your stack

    Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 1h it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-09-17 20:20 UTC and 2026-09-17 21:20 UTC may need a replay.
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    https://down.guide/feed?provider=openai works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from OpenAI 3

  1. identified

    We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

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  2. monitoring

    We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

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  3. resolved

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-e998ee5908

Is OpenAI still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-17 21:20 UTC. For OpenAI's live state, see https://down.guide/openai.

How long did it last?

1h, from 2026-09-17 20:20 UTC to 2026-09-17 21:20 UTC, by the times OpenAI posted.

What was affected?

OpenAI named Images, Batch, Chat Completions, Audio and 7 more.

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.