ChatGPT status: is it down right now?
Our own check of chat.openai.com from Europe and the US, every 3 minutes, with recent history.
chat.openai.com responded. The page answered normally in 303 ms.
chat.openai.com responded.
The page answered normally in 303 ms.
Checked (just now) from Europe and the US, automatic every 3 minutes.
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This checks the response from chat.openai.com. It does not test playback, login or every ChatGPT feature.
ChatGPT status history
Our own checks from Europe and the US. Green means every check passed, amber means some checks failed, red means most checks in that period failed.
Outages our checks detected
None since Oct 13. A problem has to fail two checks in a row before we record it.
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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 available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours.
outage patterns
ChatGPT not working? What an outage looks like
AI assistants often fail in part rather than all at once. The site or app can open while replies stall, stop partway or end in an error, or while one model or feature is unavailable and the rest still work.
The check above requests chat.openai.com from Europe and the US every 3 minutes. It does not sign in, send a prompt or test your plan, so a passing check means the service responded, not that every model and feature works.
Common signs ChatGPT is having issues
- Replies stop partway, never start, or end in an error message
- One model or feature fails while the others still work
- Sign-in loops, or the app keeps asking you to log in again
- Requests fail the same way on more than one device and network
Usually not a ChatGPT outage
- A usage or message limit on your plan
- A company network, VPN or firewall blocking the service
- An expired session: sign out and sign in again
- A browser extension or ad blocker interfering with the page
What to do when ChatGPT is degraded
Try again from a second device or network, and sign out and back in. If the check above or the official status page shows a problem, it is likely on ChatGPT's side, so wait or switch to another tool for now. If both look fine, check your plan's limits and your network first.
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Provider status references
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Historical data
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Frequently asked questions
Is ChatGPT down right now?
See the latest check of chat.openai.com and its timestamp at the top of this page. If ChatGPT is down, you can also check the official status page for extra context.
How do I check if ChatGPT is having issues?
This page checks the public ChatGPT endpoint from EU and US. You can also monitor that endpoint on a schedule and receive confirmed-failure alerts through the channels available on your plan. Test the exact provider feature you use for a complete diagnosis.
How can I get alerted when ChatGPT goes down?
Add chat.openai.com to Visual Sentinel and its first check is free. To keep monitoring, start a 7-day trial (card required) or subscribe now: Solo and Starter check every 5 minutes, Business and Agency every 60 seconds, with email, push and chat alerts.
Where can I find ChatGPT outage context?
The official ChatGPT status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Visual Sentinel checks the public ChatGPT endpoint independently from EU and US. Paid Business and Agency plans support 60-second uptime checks.
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.
Often checked together with ChatGPT
When an AI assistant stops answering, people usually try a second one. Each page below has its own check, run every 3 minutes from Europe and the US.