Is OpenAI down?
Vendor reports an incidentWhat OpenAI reports
OpenAI reports an incident on its status page: New Ad Accounts failing to provision admins.
Impact: minor. Since 2026-10-22 19:36 UTC.
Latest update, 2026-10-22 19:36 UTC: We have identified that new ad accounts are failing to assign their creator admin. We are investigating the issue.
One more incident is open on its status page.
Our regional reading
This is our own reading from outside, shown beside the vendor's statement. It is not counted as a separate outage.
Checks passingchecked moments ago
Our checks of OpenAI pass from all 10 regions we check.
As of Oct 22, 2026, 8:05 PM UTC, RealUptime's checks of OpenAI passed in all 10 regions that returned a reading.
OpenAI reports: Minor incident (“Partial System Degradation”)
OpenAI reports an active incident: New Ad Accounts failing to provision admins (minor incident, since Oct 22, 2026, 7:36 PM UTC)
OpenAI's own component breakdown, as they publish it
- Chat CompletionsOperational
- ResponsesOperational
- AgentsOperational
- DecisionsOperational
- Fine-tuningOperational
- EmbeddingsOperational
- ImagesOperational
- BatchOperational
- AudioOperational
- ModerationsOperational
- RealtimeOperational
- FilesOperational
- LoginOperational
- LiveOperational
- ConversationsOperational
- LoginOperational
- ChatGPT WorkOperational
- Codex in ChatGPT DesktopOperational
- Compliance APIOperational
- SearchOperational
- File uploadsOperational
- Voice modeOperational
- GPTsOperational
- Image GenerationOperational
- Deep ResearchOperational
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.
OpenAI response time, by region
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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: Checks passingUS-West: Checks passingEurope: Checks passingAsia-Pacific: Checks passingUS-Central: Checks passingCanada: Checks passingUK: Checks passingSoutheast Asia: Checks passingAustralia: Checks passingSouth America: Checks passing
- APIUS-East: Checks passingUS-West: Checks passingEurope: Checks passingAsia-Pacific: Checks passingUS-Central: Checks passingCanada: Checks passingUK: Checks passingSoutheast Asia: Checks passingAustralia: Checks passingSouth America: Checks passing
- AuthprimaryUS-East: Checks passingUS-West: Checks passingEurope: Checks passingAsia-Pacific: Checks passingUS-Central: Checks passingCanada: Checks passingUK: Checks passingSoutheast Asia: Checks passingAustralia: Checks passingSouth America: Checks passing
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What our checks show, and what people reported
- North AmericaChecks passingUS-East, US-West, US-Central, Canada
- US-EastChecks passinglatency: 469msstatus code: 401checked: Oct 22, 2026, 8:04 PM UTC0 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-WestChecks passinglatency: 297msstatus code: 401checked: Oct 22, 2026, 8:05 PM UTC0 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.
- US-CentralChecks passinglatency: 379msstatus code: 401checked: Oct 22, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur US-Central probes reach OpenAI normally. We do not have enough reports from US-Central to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- CanadaChecks passinglatency: 895msstatus code: 401checked: Oct 22, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur Canada probes reach OpenAI normally. We do not have enough reports from Canada to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- South AmericaChecks passinglatency: 511msstatus code: 401checked: Oct 22, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur South America probes reach OpenAI normally. We do not have enough reports from South America to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- EuropeChecks passingEurope, UK
- EuropeChecks passinglatency: 351msstatus code: 401checked: Oct 22, 2026, 8:05 PM UTC0 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.
- UKChecks passinglatency: 948msstatus code: 401checked: Oct 22, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur UK probes reach OpenAI normally. We do not have enough reports from UK to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- Asia PacificChecks passingAsia-Pacific, Southeast Asia, Australia
- Asia-PacificChecks passinglatency: 521msstatus code: 401checked: Oct 22, 2026, 8:04 PM UTC0 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.
- Southeast AsiaChecks passinglatency: 689msstatus code: 401checked: Oct 22, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur Southeast Asia probes reach OpenAI normally. We do not have enough reports from Southeast Asia to say anything about what people there are seeing.
- AustraliaChecks passinglatency: 1395msstatus code: 401checked: Oct 22, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC0 people in the last 5 minutesNot enough reports to sayOur Australia probes reach OpenAI normally. We do not have enough reports from Australia to say anything about what people there are seeing.
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 probe events
check 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.
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Per-model status
What we check
What our check can and cannot see
A pass means the service's servers answered with the sign-in refusal they give any request that is not signed in. It does not show that sign-in works or that anything behind the sign-in wall responds.
Host checked: api.openai.com