ChatGPT hit with downtime amid widespread outage reports

OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool and related services started experiencing worldwide disruptions on Tuesday, with reports of performance issues.

Reports of outages started circulating on platforms such as X and Reddit, with users indicating they are facing issues.

Meanwhile, the popular Downdetector.com tool shows that issues started earlier on Tuesday, with multiple regions affected.

OpenAI’s own status page acknowledges that some users are experiencing “elevated error rates and latency” affecting ChatGPT, its Sora text-to-video AI tool, and OpenAI APIs. Later on Tuesday, OpenAI updated the ChatGPT status to “partial outage” and noted “elevated error rates on Sora.”

While some users report sluggish responses and slow loading times, others are experiencing no issues, suggesting the outages may not be impacting everyone. OpenAI states they are “continuing to investigate this issue” but the cause of the outages and the restoration timeline remain unclear.

Reports indicate that ChatGPT prompts sent through a paid account are also returning “Error in message stream” responses both in the browser and mobile app.

ChatGPT has faced outages in the past, including one last year after expanding GPT-4o access to free users and another after ChatGPT was integrated into Apple Intelligence in December.

OpenAI’s status page shows that ChatGPT service was initially marked as “degraded” starting on Monday but was resolved within an hour.