About OpenAI API Status
OpenAI provides GPT-4, GPT-4o, GPT-3.5-Turbo, and embedding models used by millions of production applications worldwide. This page tracks OpenAI API outages, degradations, and incidents in real time, automatically updated every 60 seconds from our monitoring infrastructure.
Official status page: https://status.openai.com
Common OpenAI Outage Symptoms
- ✕HTTP 429 — rate limit exceeded or capacity constrained
- ✕HTTP 500 / 503 — server-side errors with no clear retry signal
- ✕Streaming endpoints stop sending chunks mid-response
- ✕Requests succeed but take 3–5× longer than baseline (high latency)
- ✕Authentication errors (401) despite a valid API key
- ✕Partial completions with truncated output
What to Do During a OpenAI Outage
- Honor the Retry-After header: read the value and back off for that exact number of seconds before retrying.
- Cap your concurrency — during an incident, reduce simultaneous requests by 50–75% to avoid compounding rate limits.
- Switch to a BYOK proxy (AI Badgr) to route through your own key with transparent receipts, so you can see exactly which requests failed.
- Degrade gracefully: return cached responses or simplified output while the provider recovers.
- Set a hard timeout (e.g., 30 s) and surface a clear error to users instead of silently hanging.
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OpenAI Outage FAQ
Is OpenAI down right now?
This page checks our live monitoring infrastructure (updated every 60 s) which tracks the official OpenAI status page and our own request telemetry. The status badge at the top reflects the current state.
Why am I getting OpenAI 429 errors?
A 429 means you've hit a rate limit — either requests-per-minute (RPM) or tokens-per-minute (TPM). During an outage OpenAI may apply tighter capacity limits, causing 429s even at normal traffic levels. Honor the Retry-After header and reduce concurrency.
How long do OpenAI outages typically last?
Minor degradations (elevated latency or partial 429s) usually resolve within 15–45 minutes. Major incidents affecting most endpoints can last 1–4 hours. Check the official status page at status.openai.com for live incident updates.
Can I automatically failover away from OpenAI during an outage?
Yes. AI Badgr acts as a drop-in proxy for your OpenAI API key. During an incident it can route requests to an alternate backend (D2 primary) or queue them for replay. You change one line of code — the base_url — and get transparent receipts for every request.
Does OpenAI notify me when there is an incident?
OpenAI posts incident updates at status.openai.com, but there's no push notification. AI Badgr's monitoring system emails you within minutes of detecting an incident and can automatically post mitigations on affected GitHub issues.
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