Is ChatGPT Down?
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ChatGPT is Operational
ChatGPT is up and running normally. All systems are operational.
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What to do when ChatGPT is down
ChatGPT outages typically resolve within 30 to 90 minutes. Major outages occasionally last several hours during peak load events. Three practical alternatives while you wait:
For chat and writing: Claude or Gemini
Both are at the top of our AI chatbot comparison and produce comparable quality on most tasks. Claude leads on coding and careful writing; Gemini wins on long-document analysis and Google Workspace integration. Live status: Is Claude down? and Is Gemini down?
For developers: try the API directly
api.openai.com sometimes stays up while chat.openai.com is degraded. Check the component-level status above. If the API is also affected, route through OpenRouter which automatically falls back across providers when any single one returns errors.
For image generation: DALL-E alternatives
When DALL-E is degraded inside ChatGPT, alternatives include Midjourney (separate Discord bot, often unaffected when OpenAI is down), Stable Diffusion via Replicate, or Gemini's image-generation feature inside Google AI Studio.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is ChatGPT down right now?
No, ChatGPT is not down right now. All systems are operational and functioning normally.
How do I check if ChatGPT is down?
Three options: (1) this page, which polls OpenAI every two minutes, (2) status.openai.com directly, (3) the @OpenAI account on X for incident commentary. Our page combines the official status feed with component-level detail (ChatGPT, GPT-4, GPT-5, DALL-E, Sora, Whisper) and adds historical context the official page does not show.
What do I do when ChatGPT is down?
Switch to Claude or Gemini for chat-style work. For developer API workloads, the OpenAI API and ChatGPT often go down together but not always: api.openai.com sometimes stays up while chat.openai.com is degraded. Check the component-level status above. Subscribe to outage alerts from TensorFeed if you want to be notified the moment status changes.
How often does ChatGPT go down?
OpenAI has historically maintained 99.4 to 99.7% uptime across ChatGPT and the API. Major outages (>30 min impact) happen a few times per quarter, often correlated with the launch of new model variants. Brief degradation events (slow responses, intermittent failures) happen multiple times per month and usually clear within 15 minutes.
Is the OpenAI API the same as ChatGPT?
No. The OpenAI API (api.openai.com) is the developer endpoint that powers ChatGPT and every third-party integration. ChatGPT (chat.openai.com) is the consumer chat interface that runs on top of the API plus session, billing, and feature layers. They share the same model infrastructure but have different status surfaces. When the API is down, ChatGPT is too. When ChatGPT is down for auth or rate-limit reasons, the API may still work fine.
Where can I see ChatGPT incident history?
OpenAI publishes incident history at status.openai.com. Our incidents endpoint at tensorfeed.ai/incidents aggregates incidents across every tracked AI provider in one feed, so you can compare ChatGPT alongside Claude, Gemini, and others to evaluate reliability.
Why does ChatGPT keep going down?
ChatGPT has the highest user load of any AI chatbot and historically gets hit hardest by major news events that drive a traffic spike. Outages also frequently coincide with new feature launches (new models, voice mode updates, image-generation capacity) where infrastructure capacity needs to ramp. Most outages are short and resolve within an hour.