Is ChatGPT down?

OpenAI

No — ChatGPT is working normally

Our sources see nothing wrong. If it still fails for you, the cause is most likely on your side — the tips further down cover the usual suspects.

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What our sources say

Official status page
Working
Our test requests, last hour
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Traffic through OpenRouter
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Reports from visitors, last hour
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Parts of the service

Official status page ↗Open ChatGPT ↗

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Last 30 days

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30 days agoyesterday

6 of 22 days with data had no problems.

Recent incidents

  1. Slow or glitchy

    Degraded Performace on ChatGPT Work

    Resolved after 25 mins

  2. Slow or glitchy

    6.1 Sol Degraded Model Performance

    Resolved after 1 hr 18 mins

  3. Elevated error rates for most hosted Code Reviews and Security Reviews on private GitHub repositories

    Resolved after 29 mins

  4. Slow or glitchy

    Elevated error rates for Ads POST requests

    Resolved after 11 mins

  5. Slow or glitchy

    Degraded experience with ChatGPT app connections using CIMD

    Resolved after 50 mins

  6. Help Center Chat Support Degraded

    Resolved after 33 mins

  7. Delays in customer support responses

    Resolved after 2 hrs 17 mins

  8. Slow or glitchy

    New Ad Accounts failing to provision admins

    Resolved after 4 hrs 31 mins

About this service

ChatGPT and the OpenAI API run on shared infrastructure, yet they break separately more often than you'd think: the app can hang on sign-in or file uploads while the API answers fine, and the other way round. Voice mode, image generation and Deep Research are tracked as separate parts, so if only one feature is broken, look at that line.

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ChatGPT: common questions

What should I do if ChatGPT is not working?

Reload the page or restart the app first, then open a new conversation: very long chats break more often than fresh ones. If you are stuck in a sign-in loop, sign out completely and back in. When this page shows a problem, there is nothing to repair on your side — waiting 15 to 30 minutes is usually enough, and one of the alternatives above can cover the gap.

Why does ChatGPT work for other people but not for me?

Outages often hit one region, one feature or one group of accounts before the rest. On your side, the usual causes are a browser extension (ad blockers and VPN add-ons especially), a VPN exit that OpenAI has blocked, a bloated browser cache, or the usage cap of your plan. Try a private window without extensions, or the phone app on mobile data: if it works there, the problem is local.

ChatGPT is very slow or stops halfway through an answer. Is it down?

Not necessarily. Slow streaming and answers that cut off are the typical first sign of overload, which we show as “slow or glitchy” rather than down. Regenerating the answer or switching to a lighter model in the model menu often helps straight away.

Will I lose my conversations during an outage?

Very unlikely. Chats are stored on OpenAI's servers, and an outage blocks access to them rather than deleting them; a conversation that won't open during an incident normally comes back afterwards. Before retrying a long prompt, copy it somewhere so you don't have to type it again.

How do you know whether ChatGPT is down?

For ChatGPT we combine OpenAI's official status page, read every minute and reports from people who press the button on this page. The most serious signal that is still fresh sets the verdict, and stale sources are ignored rather than trusted. The page refreshes by itself; the exact thresholds are on our “How we check” page.

How we check →