OpenAI API status
OpenAI API uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · since Aug 5, 2026
- 100%
- Response time
- 2 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is OpenAI API down everywhere, or just for you?
Our probes reached OpenAI API successfully from every monitoring region in the last check round.
| Monitoring region | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Reachable | 100% | 600 ms |
| Europe | Reachable | 100% | 522 ms |
| North America (East) | Reachable | 100% | 381 ms |
| North America (West) | Reachable | 100% | 429 ms |
Based on 3,112 automated checks in the last 24 hours. A region only appears here once we have real measurements from it.
What to check when OpenAI API misbehaves
OpenAI API is an AI service in our ai tools catalog. Services like this rarely fail as one block — these pieces can break on their own, so identifying which one is affected usually explains what you are seeing.
- Web appChat or workspace UI
- Sign-inAccounts, SSO and sessions
- GenerationResponses, images or audio completing
- APIProgrammatic access and rate limits
- LatencyTime to first token / response speed
Our automated checks measure reachability and response time of OpenAI API's public endpoint. Component level detail above reflects what users of this kind of service typically report, not a vendor status feed.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
OpenAI API appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About OpenAI API
OpenAI API provides developers with programmatic access to large language models like GPT-4 and embeddings for building custom applications. Technical implementations involve sending requests to the chat completion, transcription, or image generation endpoints. When the service encounters instability, developers often see high latency, rate-limiting errors, or internal server timeouts that halt application functionality. This Rimetry status page tracks these specific API endpoints to provide real-time data on whether the underlying intelligence engine is currently reachable and responsive.
OpenAI API (api.openai.com) is a ai tools service monitored continuously by rimetry from multiple global regions. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds to detect outages, latency spikes, and regional degradations the moment they happen.
Right now OpenAI API is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 2 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to api.openai.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like OpenAI API include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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What is OpenAI API?
OpenAI's developer API.
OpenAI API is part of our AI Tools category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · Requests hang or time out mid-response
- · Capacity or rate-limit errors
- · API errors while the web app works
- · Noticeably slower responses than usual
Similar patterns often surface across other ai tools providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Start a new conversation or session — long threads fail more often
- · Check whether the API and the web app behave differently; they can fail separately
- · Retry after a short pause: capacity errors are often transient
- · Confirm you're not hitting a plan rate limit or quota
- · Disable browser extensions that inject scripts into the page
- · Check OpenAI API's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to ai tools.
FAQ
- Is OpenAI API down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Where can I see past OpenAI API incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to ai tools.