Is ChatGPT Down?

Q: Is ChatGPT down right now?

Check the status indicator above for real-time ChatGPT availability. If ChatGPT is down, you can also check their official status page at https://status.openai.com/ for incident updates.

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About ChatGPT

ChatGPT is OpenAI's flagship conversational AI product, used by hundreds of millions of people for writing, coding, research, analysis and customer-support automation. The consumer product (chat.openai.com) and the API (api.openai.com) share underlying models but have independent incident surfaces. Common outages: the chat UI returning empty responses, "too many requests" errors despite light usage, voice mode failing to start, GPT-4 or o-series models timing out while GPT-3.5 still works, custom GPTs failing to load, and file uploads hanging. API outages break a long tail of downstream apps: Cursor, GitHub Copilot Chat (partially), writing tools, and countless LLM-powered SaaS products.

The official ChatGPT status page is at status.openai.com. However, official status pages are often updated manually and can lag behind real outages by minutes or even hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is ChatGPT down right now?+

Check the status indicator at the top of this page for real-time ChatGPT availability. If ChatGPT is down, you can also check their official status page at https://status.openai.com/ for incident updates.

How do I check if ChatGPT is having issues?+

This page checks ChatGPT availability in real time. You can also monitor ChatGPT continuously with Visual Sentinel, get instant alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp when ChatGPT goes down.

How can I get alerted when ChatGPT goes down?+

Set up a free monitor for chat.openai.com on Visual Sentinel. You'll get alerts within 60 seconds via your choice of 11 notification channels including email, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and Telegram.

Where is the official ChatGPT status page?+

The official ChatGPT status page is at https://status.openai.com/. However, official status pages often lag behind real outages. Visual Sentinel detects ChatGPT issues independently with 60-second checks from multiple global regions.

Why does ChatGPT say "something went wrong" but the API still works?+

The consumer ChatGPT UI and the developer API run on separate user-facing stacks, even when they share model capacity. A ChatGPT-UI-only outage affects chatgpt.com visitors but leaves API-based integrations running.

Do ChatGPT outages also break ChatGPT Enterprise?+

Mostly yes. Enterprise tenants run on the same core infrastructure but get priority routing during capacity incidents. Platform-wide outages still affect Enterprise; capacity-based throttling often affects Free and Plus first.