CheckUpstream measured OpenAI at 99.044% availability across 2720 independent checks (global · api). 115 incidents were recorded in the past 12 months; the most recent resolved 10 days ago after 7 minutes. Status signals are polled from OpenAI's official incident.io status page, alongside independent probes and community reports.
Share of our own checks against OpenAI endpoints that returned OpenAI's expected response. Evidence that their API edge is answering correctly — not that every product behind it works.
Vendor disclosed: 2 incidents · 305 of 365 days with none posted · 8d 5h of declared impact
Fewer incidents in the last 30 days than 4% of 232 tracked services.
Share of each window with no impact declared by OpenAI
7d
96.816%
30d
97.420%
90d
92.872%
180d
95.419%
1y
97.741%
Downtime like this can be refundable
If you're a paying OpenAI customer, outages in these windows may count against OpenAI's SLA — vendors owe service credits for missed uptime targets, but only if you file inside the deadline. CheckUpstream tracks the entitlement, drafts the claim, and hands you the filing link.
A OpenAI outage only matters if something you ship depends on it. Point us at a public repository and we will read its dependencies and tell you — no account, nothing stored.
GitHub READMEs, GitLab, MDX docs — links to the live reliability page.
Frequently Asked Questions
›Is OpenAI currently down?
OpenAI is currently Operational. CheckUpstream tracks OpenAI in real-time across the official status page, RSS / Atom feeds, and community telemetry. Refresh this page for the latest reading.
›When did OpenAI last have an outage?
OpenAI's last resolved incident started 10 days ago and lasted 6 minutes (degraded performance).
OpenAI's 30-day measured availability is 99.044%, from CheckUpstream's own probes against OpenAI endpoints. It is the share of checks that returned the expected response, not a figure taken from OpenAI's status page.
›How do I monitor OpenAI in production?
Sign up to CheckUpstream and add OpenAI to a watchlist. We send incident alerts via Slack, email, webhook, or PagerDuty within seconds of detection, covering both the official status page and community signals (HN, Reddit, Bluesky, Cloudflare Radar).
›How does CheckUpstream track OpenAI?
We poll OpenAI's official status page on a 1-5 minute cadence, parse its RSS / Atom feed as a fallback, ingest community signals from social platforms, and aggregate per-org SDK telemetry. Multiple sources reduce false positives versus any single feed alone.