Outage recap · OpenAI

ChatGPT outage — September 13, 2026

On September 13, 2026, ChatGPT had 3 reported incidents on OpenAI's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Codex GitHub Review and Pull Request Failures

minor
Started
Sep 13, 5:26 AM EDT
Resolved
Duration
not marked resolved

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

Elevated errors for ChatGPT users in Europe

minor
Started
Sep 13, 12:56 PM EDT
Resolved
Duration
not marked resolved

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

Elevated error rates for ChatGPT Chat/Work

none
Started
Sep 13, 10:46 PM EDT
Resolved
Duration
not marked resolved

As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: monitoring). 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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