Outage recap · OpenAI

ChatGPT outage — June 16, 2026

On June 16, 2026, ChatGPT had a reported incident on OpenAI's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Codex "Selected Model is at Capacity" Error

minor

Started: Jun 16, 6:32 AM EDT
Resolved: Jun 16, 9:48 AM EDT
Duration: 3h 16m

As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: resolved). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.

The AI cascade

ChatGPT depends on OpenAI. When that upstream has an incident, it doesn't hit ChatGPT alone — these AI tools share the dependency and can degrade at the same time:

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