Is OpenAI API down?

Live status of OpenAI API, checked every minute by Hyperping from Virginia, Frankfurt and Singapore, with response times and 90 days of history.

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When OpenAI API fails

The OpenAI API serves GPT models, embeddings, images and audio to applications. Incidents are often limited to one model or one endpoint, such as higher error rates on a single model, while the rest of the API answers.

We request api.openai.com without a key: a 401 means the API is answering. A 5xx or a timeout means it is not.

If OpenAI API is not working for you

Open openai.com on another network, such as mobile data. If it works there, the problem is your connection, your DNS or your VPN.
Update or restart the app, then sign out and back in.
Look for an incident on one feature on status.openai.com.

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Questions about OpenAI API outages.

Is OpenAI API down right now?

The status at the top of this page comes from Hyperping checks of OpenAI API, run every minute and refreshed on the page every 60 seconds. Green means the latest checks succeeded; red means they are failing, confirmed from several regions.

How do you check OpenAI API?

We send an HTTP request to api.openai.com every minute, in turn from Virginia, Frankfurt and Singapore, and count a 401 response as up. When a check fails, other regions check again before OpenAI API counts as down. We request api.openai.com without a key: a 401 means the API is answering. A 5xx or a timeout means it is not.

OpenAI API is up here but not working for me. Why?

An outage can be partial: one feature, one app, one country or one internet provider, and our checks see OpenAI API from data centers. Try another network such as mobile data, update or restart the app, and check the official status page for an incident on one feature.

Does OpenAI API have an official status page?

Yes, status.openai.com. OpenAI API's team updates it by hand, so it can lag behind the start of an outage; our checks run every minute whatever it says.

Can I get alerted when OpenAI API goes down?

Yes. Create a free Hyperping account and add api.openai.com as a monitor: you are alerted by email, Slack or your other channels within a minute of a failure. The free plan includes 20 monitors, enough for your own site and the services it depends on.

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