OpenAI Confirms Global ChatGPT Outage — Fourth Incident in Four Days

What happened

On July 25, 2026 at approximately 5 AM ET, OpenAI confirmed a worldwide outage affecting ChatGPT, its developer API, and the Codex coding platform. The outage lasted roughly 50 minutes before a fix was applied.

Context and impact

This was the fourth service disruption in four days, part of a broader pattern: OpenAI has logged approximately 166 incidents since autumn 2025, averaging roughly 18 per month. The outage affected enterprise subscribers and API-dependent developers, not just casual users.

Details

• Users saw stuck loading animations and 'too many concurrent requests' errors
• Affected regions: US, Europe, India, Japan, Australia, UAE
• OpenAI applied a mitigation and monitored recovery
• 12 API endpoints reported issues on the status page