Outage report · Partial outage
ChatGPT outage on Aug 31, 2026
ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency
SeverityPartial outage
StartedAug 31, 2026, 15:04UTC
ResolvedAug 31, 2026, 20:28UTC
Duration5h 24m
What happened
ChatGPT reported a partial outage starting Aug 31, 2026, 15:04 UTC, affecting ChatGPT Work. It was marked resolved at Aug 31, 2026, 20:28 UTC.
- The incident lasted 5h 24m from first report to resolution.
- It was the 2nd longest of 4 significant outages ChatGPT reported in the 12 months up to it.
- ChatGPT had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 12 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from ChatGPT
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of ChatGPT started after this incident, so this report is based on ChatGPT's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
ChatGPT's overall reliability
32.2/100
ChatGPT has a reliability score of 32.2/100, with 96.87% effective uptime and 83 incidents over the last 90 days.
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