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Operationalchecked 1 minute ago

We reached OpenAI from all 4 regions we check.

Functional endpoints verified

Last outage: 11 min on Aug 28, 2026 (API, from Europe, US-East and US-West).

our independent probeslive · checked Aug 31, 2026, 8:55 PM UTC
US-East576 msOperational
US-West69 msOperational
Europe195 msOperational
Asia-Pacific246 msOperational
their status pagetheir claim, not our reading

OpenAI reports: All systems operational (“All Systems Operational”)

from OpenAI's own status page, checked Aug 31, 2026, 8:24 PM UTC
Our probes and OpenAI's own status page agree: both show OpenAI as reachable right now.

OpenAI's own component breakdown, as they publish it

  • ResponsesOperational
  • ImagesOperational
  • Codex in ChatGPT DesktopOperational
  • LoginOperational
  • AudioOperational
  • Compliance APIOperational
  • FilesOperational
  • FedRAMPOperational
  • SearchOperational
  • SoraOperational
  • Ads APIOperational
  • Fine-tuningOperational
  • ChatGPT AtlasOperational
  • Deep ResearchOperational
  • RealtimeOperational
  • Voice modeOperational
  • BatchOperational
  • EmbeddingsOperational
  • ModerationsOperational
  • Codex WebOperational
  • Connectors/AppsOperational
  • VS Code extensionOperational
  • Codex APIOperational
  • SitesOperational
  • AgentOperational

These are OpenAI's components, named and scored by OpenAI. We do not map them onto the functions we check above, because we have no way to know which of their components our checks touch. Two lists, side by side, neither one rewriting the other.

This is OpenAI's own claim about their service, shown separately from what we measured. We never change our own numbers based on what a vendor reports, and this reading never changes theirs. Read both.

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What we measured, function by function

OpenAI answers on more than one surface, and they can fail apart. Each row is one surface, checked from the same regions. The verdict above follows the auth row, because that is the surface we treat as this service's own; a failure on any other row is a partial outage, not a full one.

  • WebUS-East: OperationalUS-West: OperationalEurope: OperationalAsia-Pacific: OperationalUS-Central: Not monitored from this regionCanada: Not monitored from this regionUK: Not monitored from this regionSoutheast Asia: Not monitored from this regionAustralia: Not monitored from this regionSouth America: Not monitored from this region
  • APIUS-East: OperationalUS-West: OperationalEurope: OperationalAsia-Pacific: OperationalUS-Central: Not monitored from this regionCanada: Not monitored from this regionUK: Not monitored from this regionSoutheast Asia: Not monitored from this regionAustralia: Not monitored from this regionSouth America: Not monitored from this region
  • AuthprimaryUS-East: OperationalUS-West: OperationalEurope: OperationalAsia-Pacific: OperationalUS-Central: Not monitored from this regionCanada: Not monitored from this regionUK: Not monitored from this regionSoutheast Asia: Not monitored from this regionAustralia: Not monitored from this regionSouth America: Not monitored from this region
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What we measured, and what people reported

  • US-East
    Operationallatency: 576msstatus code: 401checked: Aug 31, 2026, 8:55 PM UTC
    0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur US-East probes reach OpenAI normally. We do not have enough reports from US-East to say anything about what people there are seeing.
  • US-West
    Operationallatency: 69msstatus code: 401checked: Aug 31, 2026, 8:55 PM UTC
    0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur US-West probes reach OpenAI normally. We do not have enough reports from US-West to say anything about what people there are seeing.
  • Europe
    Operationallatency: 195msstatus code: 401checked: Aug 31, 2026, 8:55 PM UTC
    0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur Europe probes reach OpenAI normally. We do not have enough reports from Europe to say anything about what people there are seeing.
  • Asia-Pacific
    Operationallatency: 246msstatus code: 401checked: Aug 31, 2026, 8:53 PM UTC
    0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur Asia-Pacific probes reach OpenAI normally. We do not have enough reports from Asia-Pacific to say anything about what people there are seeing.
  • US-Central
    Not monitored from this regionOpenAI is not monitored from this region.
    0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to say
  • Canada
    Not monitored from this regionOpenAI is not monitored from this region.
    0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to say
  • UK
    Not monitored from this regionOpenAI is not monitored from this region.
    0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to say
  • Southeast Asia
    Not monitored from this regionOpenAI is not monitored from this region.
    0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to say
  • Australia
    Not monitored from this regionOpenAI is not monitored from this region.
    0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to say
  • South America
    Not monitored from this regionOpenAI is not monitored from this region.
    0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to say

Somewhere else or not sure: 0 people in the last 5 minutes

These are unverified reports from people using OpenAI, counted separately from what our own probes measure. Anyone can file one, no account is needed, and the region on a report is chosen by the person filing it. We never open, extend or close an outage in our record based on report volume: only our own measurements do that. We have not received any reports for OpenAI yet, which is not evidence that nothing is wrong.

Recent outages

ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency, 5h 24mdeclared on their status page2026-08-31
Outage, 11mmeasured by our probes · Europe and US-East and US-West2026-08-28
Users may experience an increase in error rates in Workspace Agents and ChatGPT Work on Web and Mobile, 4h 14mdeclared on their status page2026-08-27
Unexpected logouts for some ChatGPT web users, 3h 27mdeclared on their status page2026-08-21
Elevated Codex API authentication errors, 53mdeclared on their status page2026-08-20
Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT , 2h 56mdeclared on their status page2026-08-20
Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right now, 52mdeclared on their status page2026-08-20
Elevated errors deploying Sites, 20mdeclared on their status page2026-08-18

measured entries are our own probes' readings; declared entries are the vendor's. How this check works

We have been measuring OpenAI since August 20, 2026. We show nothing from before that date, and we never add an outage we did not observe ourselves, from any source.

Need this in writing? Generate an SLA evidence report for OpenAI covering any window you pick, with our measurements and OpenAI's own claim at the time, side by side.

Full availability history for OpenAI: 90-day availability by region, month-by-month uptime, and every incident on record.

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We will tell you when our probes stop reaching OpenAI, and again when they can reach it again. That is our own measurement from ten regions, not OpenAI's status page. No account, no card.

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OpenAI uptime measured by RealUptimeLive, from this page's own readings.
[![OpenAI uptime measured by RealUptime](https://realuptime.io/outages/openai/badge.svg?days=30)](https://realuptime.io/outages/openai)
<a href="https://realuptime.io/outages/openai"><img src="https://realuptime.io/outages/openai/badge.svg?days=30" alt="OpenAI uptime measured by RealUptime"></a>

The badge shows the share of our probes that succeeded over the last 30 days, and the window is printed on it so the number always says what period it covers. If our readings go stale it says stale, and if we have no readings it says so: it will not show green on data we cannot vouch for. Free, no account, and it links back here. See how the badge works for every window and the honesty rules behind it.

What OpenAI's SLA implies, from our measurement

At or above your target

We measured 11 minutes of downtime for OpenAI over the 284h 56m since we started watching it on 2026-08-20, which is 99.9336% uptime by our reading. A 99.9% target allows 17 minutes over that period.

By our measurement there is no shortfall to claim for this period.

This is computed from our own probe measurements, not from OpenAI's SLA instrumentation. Their contract is normally measured against their own systems, with their own exclusions and a claim window, so their figure and ours will differ. Use this to start the conversation and ask for their number. It is not legal advice and it is not a determination of what you are owed.

What we check

primaryfunctional: auth surface
https://api.openai.com/v1/models
secondary
https://status.openai.com/
secondaryfunctional: live API
https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions
RealUptime is not affiliated with OpenAI; the name identifies what we measured, and nothing here speaks for OpenAI's own team. We send a single web request to OpenAI from 4 regions on our own schedule and time the response. We do not see inside OpenAI's systems, do not use an account or real transaction, and are not the same signal OpenAI's own team has access to. Treat this as one external data point, not a verdict. At least one endpoint we check for OpenAI is a real functional API call (marked “functional” above), not just a landing page, so a clean read there is a stronger signal than reachability alone, though it still does not cover every feature of the service. OpenAI operates in a limited set of regions, so we only check it from where it is actually available; we do not probe from a region we know it does not serve. We started monitoring this service on August 20, 2026 (11 of 14 days so far, 46045 of 500 checks). We show a full track record once we have enough continuous history. Check back soon, or monitor your own site continuously with RealUptime. Read the full methodology.

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