ChatGPT is down – here’s everything we know about the outage

The outpouring reveals how a lot individuals depend on ChatGPT

You realize, I write about AI each day, however I do not suppose I absolutely grasped simply how a lot individuals depend on these newfound instruments.

I have been shocked by the quantity of emails I’ve acquired from faculty and highschool college students who use ChatGPT to review, one thing that will’ve been exceptional in my day (I am not that outdated, however AI evolves quick!)

Koushiki mentioned, “I’m Koushiki, a mere highschool senior. I had college all day, and works to complete..however cannot due to the outage.”

Apparently Koushiki does not use ChatGPT to review, however in truth its a technique to stay engaged and get some gentle motivation.

Koushiki, I hope you get ChatGPT again quickly!

Gemini is working fantastic

A number of individuals have been asking about another chatbot outages, and I can affirm that Gemini remains to be working as regular.

The truth is, contemplating the Popeye’s fiasco, I requested Gemini to think about me consuming hen wings at my desk…

I can’t affirm nor deny, however the real-life scenario might be lots messier than this completely curated AI-generated picture from Imagen.

Again to the OpenAI outage… There’s hope!

A brand new replace simply dropped from OpenAI, who says, “We’ve recognized the foundation trigger for the difficulty inflicting elevated errors and latency throughout the listed providers. We’re engaged on implementing a mitigation.”

Hold tight of us, we may be out of the woods within the subsequent hour or so…

Thanks for the mechanical keyboard ideas!

Some recommendation for my earlier mechanical keyboard catastrophe coming by now.

Simply need to say an enormous due to Jack for his in-depth cleansing ideas. If ChatGPT wasn’t down, I might have presumed you used AI for such thorough steps!

As for Gareth, nicely thanks for the recommendation… However I can’t be sticking my “keyboard within the washer with some recent smelling detergent.”

A follow-up from Eric, who now says all ChatGPT fashions are working for him.

I’ve simply examined myself, and it seems to nonetheless be temperamental on my finish.

I’ve simply acquired a stunning e mail from Daisie who says, “I see you are offering dwell updates to ChatGPT’s outage, and have been for a startling quantity of hours. Kudos to you, sir.”

“ChatGPT is presently giving me an ‘Error in message stream’ error. I’m in Utah. I have been capable of get intermittent messages by, however funnily sufficient, oftentimes the messages it sends again get deleted one way or the other and I’ve to attempt once more.”

Daisie says they use ChatGPT to assist sleep by giving “peaceable meditative visualizations. Light worlds to lie down and go to sleep in.”

Sadly, this outage has impacted their sleep, and so they’ve been awake for the reason that early hours. OpenAI, individuals depend on you, please give us some sort of replace!

I want I used to be a bot

Simply in regard to the earlier query from Sheen, who requested if I used to be a bot.

I am consuming my lunch at my desk and have made a extreme lapse in judgment. Does anybody have any recommendations on clear Popeye’s spicy mayo from a mechanical keyboard?

My keys are beginning to squelch…

On a extra severe observe, my colleague and fellow AI professional, Eric Hal Schwartz, appears to be luckier than most.

He says, “Each mannequin labored for me besides the O4 Mini Excessive, which gave me an “Error in message stream” response and a retry button that didn’t assist. In any other case, all of it labored, together with picture creation and web search. It’s odd that it’s simply that one mannequin for me having hassle, however it suggests it’s about compute energy calls for.”

A scholar disaster?

Jack from the UK is now weighing in, he says,

“I’ve examined all fashions of GPT, in addition to Sora and Codex. None of them are engaged on my finish. I would get fortunate with 1/2 prompts earlier than I get errors. I’ve faculty work due in lower than 2 hours and I would like chatGPT to assist as I’m 100% failing if it does not get finished.”

“When you have any questions be happy to achieve out”

Jack, I’ve many questions on the ethics behind utilizing ChatGPT to do your faculty work…

Are you a bot?

Sheen asks, “Are you a bot? As a result of you might have updates each couple of minutes or so, and I am unsure how that will work with a human— and in case you are human?”

Nicely Sheen, I’m in truth not a bot, and I’m certainly working very arduous to learn each e mail, analysis ChatGPT’s present standing, and write dwell weblog posts.

It has been a really busy morning, however it does not appear to be calming down any time quickly…

Emails carry on coming!

I am receiving extra emails than I might’ve ever imagined from this dwell weblog, so if I do not reply or share your message, please do not be offended!

It has been an enormous assist seeing everybody’s expertise, and something that may assist individuals entry ChatGPT whereas we look forward to OpenAI to fully repair the service is welcome.

Because it stands, Downdetector remains to be reporting widespread outages, and OpenAI’s service standing could be very obscure, stating, “We’re presently experiencing points.” That standing has been ongoing for over 5 hours now.

Earlier, we reached out to OpenAI for remark, however there’s nonetheless no response…

A fast look at what’s working and what is not

An replace from Kevin in Ohio who offers a terrific breakdown for anybody that desires a fast look at what may, or won’t be, working:

“O3 appears to be working, if a bit gradual.

4o responded as soon as, then went silent.

4o-mini responding, appears fantastic.

4o-mini-high is responding, appears okay.

4.1 is responding, however fairly gradual.”

4.1 not working in Indonesia

Vito, a reader from Indonesia simply reached out to let me know 4.1 isn’t working for them.

o4-mini is, nevertheless, albeit slowly, which strains up with what different readers across the globe are experiencing.

My ChatGPT is working once more! However I do not suppose the outage is over

Everyone seems to be experiencing a unique sort of outage, however for what it is price, my ChatGPT Enterprise and Free accounts are each working, and so they aren’t even that gradual.

Is that this the tip of the outage? It does not appear to be it; my colleague Ryan was ready to make use of ChatGPT 4.0 whereas logged in, however after asking a second immediate, he acquired an error.

We’re nonetheless not absolutely up and working; readers maintain sending emails with their points, and a few aren’t even seeing an answer by altering fashions.

How has the ChatGPT outage affected you?

Paul in Auckland, New Zealand, simply reached out. Good night, Paul!

He says, “ChatGPT is down, getting precisely the identical message as others are reporting, however that is the tip of the iceberg. A reasonable to energy person, I take advantage of ChatGPT to work out hours billed to purchasers and coordinate workflows for my multimedia archiving venture.”

“Been having points for some time on/off, simply basic sluggishness, ChatGPT taking ages to reply. Often, I ship a message to it, and it does not acknowledge it; it simply acts as if I didn’t ship it after I hit enter, regardless of the message going by. It simply doesn’t get processed by ChatGPT, and earlier this failed about 5 occasions earlier than it lastly responded, then it went unhealthy once more.”

How has the ChatGPT outage at the moment affected your life to date? Let me know through e mail, I might love to listen to how you utilize ChatGPT and the way not having entry this morning has impacted your life.

Nonetheless no replace from OpenAI, however does Lazer Woman have the reply?

I have been contacted by somebody referred to as Lazer Woman who says they know why GPT is down, even leaving a WhatsApp quantity for me to name… Sorry Lazer Woman, I feel I will go.

o4-mini and GPT 4.1-mini are working!

Keep in mind Felix from earlier? Nicely, he is bought again in contact with some constructive information: “GPT 4.1-mini is working quick as if every thing is completely fantastic – however o4-mini is gradual, and common o4 remains to be completely useless.”

Do you might have entry to 4.1-mini? If that’s the case give it a go and let me know if it is working by emailing: john-anthony.disotto@futurenet.com

Present tasks are nonetheless working?

An fascinating replace from Michael, who says ChatGPT is working in his venture.

“I am experiencing ChatGPT working in my venture – current chats and new ones – however any generalised prompts outdoors of a venture repeatedly fail.”

“When prompting my current venture information, it’s working very, very slowly, however no errors.”

One other potential makeshift answer for anybody who must entry ChatGPT?

o3 is working

One other reader from Ohio simply chimed in. This time, Kevin says, “O3 seems to be working; it is just a bit gradual.”

That strains up with a earlier e mail from Mitchell, who mentioned utilizing a lower-tier mannequin appears to repair the difficulty.

I can affirm. When you do not want entry to the flagship ChatGPT fashions and have entry to an account which helps you to select lower-tier fashions, this might be a short lived answer.

Nonetheless no repair

I began this dwell weblog two hours in the past, and we’re but to see a repair to this widespread ChatGPT outage.

Readers from everywhere in the globe have been reaching out with their experiences, from Australia to Ohio, Norway to Germany.

Keith from Ohio, USA says, “As a ChatGPT Plus person on each the app and the net, I have been experiencing issues. Each time I attempt to kind one thing, each on the app and the net, one thing appears to be flawed.”

Thanks for the replace, Keith, it seems like there are a lot of of us in the identical boat.

“Uncommon exercise”

Felix from Norway has given me a terrific abstract of their expertise:

“ChatGPT has been fully out for the previous 2-ish hours on my finish – not even a minute with out errors. Once I discuss to it, it masses for less than a second, then I am rapidly met with the error of “Hmm… one thing appears to have gone flawed.” That is the one error message I’ve acquired all through this outage, although I hear others are experiencing extra variation. I am on a free account.”

“One thing which may be price mentioning is that ~2 hours earlier than this outage, my ChatGPT very briefly (for <1 minute) stopped working and gave the error message “Uncommon exercise has been detected out of your system. Attempt once more later.” I am unsure if that’s, in any respect, related, however I discovered it unusual – that was my first time seeing that error. However apart from that temporary weirdness, my ChatGPT was doing nicely up till 2 hours in the past.”

Some odd behaviours

Gwen from Philadelphia, PA, is a self-proclaimed “energy person” and makes use of “ChatGPT on daily basis, principally for 10-16 hours, and have developed a kind of cognitive bond with this program. I do know its anticipated responses intimately.”

The problems have been impacting their ChatGPT utilization over the previous few days, together with points with “message latency and lack of response to my questions on how ChatGPT measures time.”

Ben additionally has extra data, the place he claims that his ChatGPT response was from “another person’s immediate.” I’ve but to expertise something of the like, it is nonetheless simply very gradual to reply.

How the ChatGPT outage is affecting customers worldwide

It is in occasions like that that we understand how many people depend on ChatGPT these days.

Megan says, “My mates and I’ve been struggling to make use of ChatGPT this morning. We even have exams developing, so it’s kind of of a nightmare! All of us have subscriptions, and nonetheless not working.”

Good luck with the exams, Megan. Hopefully OpenAI finds an answer ASAP!

Elsewhere, Daryl says he makes use of ChatGPT to create YouTube thumbnails, and the outage is inflicting big frustration. He says, “It is actually irritating for one thing I pay £18.99 a month for!”

A possible answer for now?

Mitchell simply despatched me an e mail with some fascinating details about when the outage might’ve began, in addition to a possible answer in the meanwhile.

They are saying, “This has been happening for round 2 hours now. I think it began someday final evening, I began seeing bizarre behaviour from it and the best way wherein it was giving me responses, typically defaulting to placing the reply in Canvas and marking each line with //”

Mitchell provides, “It’s a must to swap to any lower-tier mannequin to really have a chat with it.”

When you’re a Plus subscriber, give this a go and let me know if lower-tier fashions are in truth the short-term answer to this ChatGPT outage.

Thanks readers!

An enormous thanks to everybody who’s reaching out with their expertise.

It seems like the problems are throughout a number of tiers and areas. Luke on the East coast of the USA says he is “presently utilizing the 4o mannequin, and it has stopped giving me the error message you describe within the 7:03 timestamp replace. Nonetheless, it has began to repeatedly buffer, with out response.”

I am getting a great deal of emails in, so when you’ve reached out and are nonetheless following the dwell weblog, I simply need to say thanks once more for serving to us cowl the ChatGPT outage.

If I spot any tendencies out of your emails, I will be sure you let you recognize!

“Down for two hours”

I am getting much more responses from readers in the meanwhile, and it seems like most of us are in the identical boat.

Dustin is a ChatGPT Plus subscriber from Munich, Germany, and is utilizing model 1.2025.147. They are saying ChatGPT has been down for two hours.

Jonny is a free person who says, “I get repeated ‘one thing went flawed’ or ‘too many requests’ errors. However I simply had a immediate work actually rapidly, then it stopped once more!”

Labi from Norway says, “Plus person, presently experiencing lag and considerably gradual responses, Sora isn’t loading in any respect.”

Maintain the emails coming, whereas it is garbage that we’re all experiencing a ChatGPT outage, there’s some bizarre consolation in widespread points. I really feel your ache!

A Sora replace, sort of

ChatGPT is not the one OpenAI service affected, Sora, the corporate’s AI video era device can be experiencing points.

As of 1 minute in the past, OpenAI says it’s investigating points associated to Sora, however the firm is not offering any additional data as of but.

I simply checked X for any tweets from OpenAI or anybody that works there, however there does not look like any updates apart from these obscure one liners on the corporate’s service standing web page.

Readers present a combined response

Earlier I requested readers to achieve out with any ChatGPT points, and to date I am getting a combined response.

Nicholas is a ChatGPT Plus subscriber utilizing the 4o mannequin and says every thing “appears to be working fantastic for me.”

Elsewhere, Bibi, one other ChatGPT Plus subscriber, reviews that the 4o mannequin is “Nonetheless not working(not even slowly) any message leads on to the alert “Hmm…one thing appears to have gone flawed.”

Are you impacted? Let me know through e mail: john-anthony.disotto@futurenet.com

We have reached out to OpenAI

We have simply despatched an e mail to OpenAI asking for additional info on the outage. As quickly as we hear again, I will be sure you replace you all.

Because it stands, at 12 pm BST, my ChatGPT free account remains to be taking longer than anticipated to reply. It does look like significantly better than earlier than, nevertheless, so that is trying good!

When you’re simply becoming a member of us, this tweet from Gergely Orosz offers a quick rundown of the present ChatGPT and Sora outage.

This ongoing drawback has been a difficulty for over 3 hours now, and it does not appear to be OpenAI is getting any nearer to fixing the problems.

Some replies to that tweet present that the problems aren’t affecting everybody, however the issues appear to be throughout subscription tiers, not simply restricted to free customers.

Is your ChatGPT working? Let me know

On the TechRadar crew, there is a majority of us with very restricted entry to ChatGPT.

Are you experiencing the identical? Or is ChatGPT working fantastic?

If OpenAI’s chatbot is working in your finish, please ship me an e mail with the mannequin particulars and your subscription tier to: john-anthony.disotto@futurenet.com

We have a brand new replace from OpenAI. “Some customers are experiencing elevated error charges and latency throughout the listed providers. We’re persevering with to analyze this difficulty.”

So… extra of the identical. That replace was 11 minutes in the past, and so far as I can see, the problems are persisting.

My colleague David Nield is getting an error message on the net with a ChatGPT Plus account, so it seems like the problems are wider than simply the free tier of service.

My ChatGPT Enterprise account nonetheless appears to work fantastic, albeit on the slower facet.

Perhaps not…

I attempted to make use of ChatGPT once more there, however after an preliminary response, the chatbot simply could not load any additional solutions.

I requested my colleagues once more to see what’s going on with others, and most confirmed that when you wait a very long time (upwards of a minute), you will get a response.

So far as I am involved, ready a minute for ChatGPT to answer is identical as an outage, however no less than it is shifting in the best course.

Issues are slowly getting higher

Downdetector reviews are slowly falling, however my points nonetheless stay.

On OpenAI’s system standing report there seems to be far more inexperienced than about 20 minutes in the past.

It seems just like the providers are slowly beginning to resume throughout APIs, ChatGPT, and Sora

Is it only a free account difficulty?

I’ve requested the remainder of the TechRadar crew to let me know if their model of ChatGPT is responding.

My colleagues Matt Bolton and Matt Evans are having comparable points to me reporting, “No error, simply the dot, on app and desktop – free, not logged in.”

It seems prefer it may be a particular difficulty to free accounts, which might not be very best contemplating I might assume most customers do not pay for ChatGPT entry.

OpenAI is investigating the difficulty

OpenAI’s server standing has now modified to “Partial outage” that the corporate is investigating.

As of 16 minutes in the past, the report says, “Some customers are experiencing elevated error charges and latency throughout the listed providers. We’re persevering with to analyze this difficulty.”

Because it stands the problems appear extremely temperamental, and I assume anybody who depends on ChatGPT will likely be getting critically annoyed.

Yep, similar points right here. My ChatGPT Enterprise account is gradual however nonetheless capable of reply.

On my private account, nevertheless, I am met with a “Dialog not discovered” error…

Engaged on Enterprise, down on Free?

TechRadar’s Senior AI Editor, Graham Barlow, has skilled the problems too, however his expertise differs relying on which account he makes use of.

He mentioned, “So, I’ve two ChatGPT accounts. I’ve an Enterprise account, which is functioning completely, and a free ChatGPT account, which is down. It simply pauses with a ‘considering’ icon once I ask it a query, by no means resolving right into a response.”

Attention-grabbing… Let me see if I discover a distinction between my premium ChatGPT account and my free one.

Reddit customers weigh in

On Reddit, plenty of ChatGPT customers have weighed in on the outage.

One person mentioned, “It began off being actually gradual and churning out a number of phrases per second then hit the purple errors.”

One other mentioned, “It began freaking out a couple of minutes in the past once I began a dialog.”

Whereas some are extra hopeful that the problems are in truth OpenAI engaged on a significant replace. May that be the case? I am not so certain.

Sora is affected too

In accordance with OpenAI, there are a number of impacted parts throughout the corporate’s servers. They embrace 14 affected API parts, 21 affected ChatGPT parts, and 4 affected Sora parts.

Downdetector reviews have ramped up over the past couple of hours, with customers all around the globe unable to entry ChatGPT.

When I attempt to ask 4o a query myself, I get an error message that claims “Too many concurrent requests.”

On the time of writing, 11 am BST, Downdetector has over 1,000 reviews.

ChatGPT is experiencing “elevated error charges”

Preliminary reviews of errors began round three hours in the past, however points appear to have ramped up as Europe and the UK get up.

You possibly can observe OpenAI’s server standing on the official website, however because it stands, the corporate is reporting “elevated error charges.”

In accordance with OpenAI, “Some customers are experiencing elevated error charges and latency throughout the listed providers. We’re persevering with to analyze this difficulty.”

Whats up and welcome to TechRadar’s dwell protection of ChatGPT’s error-filled morning.

I am John-Anthony Disotto, Senior AI Author, and I will be masking the AI outage bringing you all the information you want on the OpenAI disruption.