What Is OpenAI Status (status.openai.com)?

status.openai.com is OpenAI's official service status page. It tells you whether OpenAI systems are currently operating normally, whether any known issues are affecting them, and how much uptime each product area has had over the recent reporting window. Use it when you want a quick, authoritative check on whether a problem you're seeing is on OpenAI's side rather than your own.

What the page shows

Current operational state

At the top, the page displays a plain-language summary of overall health. When everything is working, it reads "We're fully operational" with the note that OpenAI is "not aware of any issues affecting our systems." If an incident is active, this area is where the affected systems and their status would be surfaced.

Component-level status and uptime

Below the summary, the page breaks OpenAI products into groups of components, each with its own uptime figure. The reporting window shown is Jul 2026 – Oct 2026, and metrics are aggregated across all tiers, models, and error types.

Individual components within those groups include:

• APIs: Chat Completions, Responses, Agents, Decisions, Fine-tuning, Embeddings, Images (99.990%), Batch, Audio, Moderations, Realtime, Files, Login (99.98%), Live — most at 100%.
• ChatGPT: Conversations (99.95%), Login (99.93%), ChatGPT Work (99.90%), Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (99.91%), Compliance API, Search, File uploads, Voice mode, GPTs, Image Generation, Deep Research, Agent, dots, Space, Sites, Connectors/Apps — several at 99.998%.
• Codex: Codex Web, Codex API, CLI, and VS Code extension, all at 99.94%.

Subscriptions and history

The page offers a "Subscribe to updates" option so you can be notified when status changes, and a "View history" link to review past incidents and uptime over time.

How to use it

1. Check the summary first. If it says fully operational, the disruption you're experiencing is likely local (network, credentials, client configuration) or limited to a specific model or feature.
2. Drill into the relevant component. Find your product group and the specific component — for example, Chat Completions under APIs or Codex Web under Codex — and compare its uptime with the group average.
3. Read the caveat. OpenAI notes that "individual customer availability may vary depending on their subscription tier as well as the specific model and API features in use." A high aggregate uptime does not guarantee your particular tier or feature was unaffected.
4. Subscribe or check history if you need a record of past incidents or want proactive alerts.

What it does not tell you

The page reports aggregate availability, not per-account diagnostics. It won't explain why your specific request failed, and a 100% component figure doesn't rule out an issue scoped to one model, tier, or region. For those cases, combine the status page with your own logs and error messages.