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OpenAI API status and regional checks

Investigating a slow or failing OpenAI API request? Check the source and freshness before drawing a conclusion.

What the evidence says

Monitoring not activated. No current independent evidence.

Official ChatGPT app
Official status unknown
Official OpenAI API
Official status unknown
Independent OpenAI API
Insufficient evidence

API checks do not measure the consumer app.

Monitoring not activated. No verified current independent snapshot is available.

Official ChatGPT status

Official status unknown

No verified current component evidence.

Source checked: Unavailable · unavailable

Official OpenAI API status

Official status unknown

No verified current component evidence.

Source checked: Unavailable · unavailable

Independent OpenAI API checks

Insufficient evidence

Latency comparison: insufficient evidence

Latest check slot: Unavailable
0 / 3 fresh regions · current regional evidence unavailable

One representative API model; not every model or endpoint. Official reports and independent observations may disagree. Missing evidence does not mean an outage.

Independent checks: every 5 minutes when activated; unavailable after a missed expected check plus 60 seconds. Official evidence expires after 90 seconds. Each source ages separately.

Open official provider status · Provider update: Unavailable

What should I understand next?

Match your failing endpoint to the official API component. Then compare regional outcomes and failure attribution. Authentication, credits, quota and monitor or network errors must not be labeled provider outages.

ChatGPT consumer-app status · How we measure and handle missing evidence

Regional API evidence

OpenAI logo OpenAI

Insufficient evidence

Official API: unknown
Overall provider: unknown · fetched No verified check

Official incident coverage: unknown · Official source

Consumer components: unknown; separate from API checks.

Independent: No verified check
0 / 3 fresh regions · 0 responding

  • SeoulUnavailableLast checked No verified check · baseline insufficient
  • N. VirginiaUnavailableLast checked No verified check · baseline insufficient
  • OregonUnavailableLast checked No verified check · baseline insufficient

gpt-6-luna · health-v1 · first readable text. Representative API model only; consumer apps and provider-wide health are not measured

Source: AI Fast Now independent API checks. Expected every 5 min; unavailable after a missed expected check (60 sec dispatch grace).

Read the failure category and model before interpreting a result. Failed requests have no invented zero latency. Historical or stale checks do not establish present availability.

What these sources cover

Official Responses and Chat Completions components are distinct from ChatGPT. Our independent request uses one representative OpenAI model; it does not test every endpoint, model, account tier or customer network.

Official consumer components, official API components and independent API checks are three separate sources. An overall provider indicator is not a substitute for a matching component. No incident reported is limited to the supported official components and fresh supplied incident coverage; it is not proof that every user can connect.

Why can the service feel slow without an incident?

A long conversation, a different model, account limits, a local network path or app routing may affect your experience. These are possible explanations, not diagnoses. We only label elevated API latency after repeated comparable checks exceed a distributed baseline. Without enough baseline evidence, speed remains inconclusive.

One successful request does not rule out intermittent failures. One failed request does not establish a consumer-app outage. Missing regions and expired observations remain visible.

Model, region and measurement details

Current-health representative model: gpt-6-luna. The health-v1 profile measures time to first readable API text. Benchmark speed requests are a separate historical experiment.

OpenAI API provider details and model catalog · Seoul · N. Virginia · Oregon

Regions identify the origins of our probes, not provider server locations or the route taken by your browser. Read timestamps as UTC; a recently published page does not refresh an old measurement.

Performance history

Reports describe completed API measurement periods, not current consumer-app status.

  • Daily: no complete verified report yet
  • Weekly: no complete verified report yet
  • Monthly: no complete verified report yet

Archive: verified historical evidence

Earlier bounded observation (not a complete Daily, Weekly or Monthly report): AI Performance Observation Report: 2026-10-02–2026-10-03

Calendar reports use America/New_York local dates, including daylight-saving changes. Publication requires a closed period, complete expected slots, immutable source verification, reconciled accounting and explicit publication permission. Partial periods are not completed reports.

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