OpenAI / ChatGPT
Degraded

ChatGPT outage on October 5, 2026: what happened and how long it lasted

On October 5, 2026, OpenAI / ChatGPT had degraded performance between 07:03 and 02:10 UTC, about 19.1 h in total. The vendor posted 5 incidents.

Live status

Timeline (UTC)

  1. OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated Work Mode errors
  2. OfficialOfficial incident posted: Issues saving and editing Pages
  3. OfficialOfficially resolved: Issues saving and editing Pages
  4. OfficialOfficial incident posted: Admin Console Intermittently Inaccessible
  5. OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations
  6. OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated error rates in Codex Cloud
  7. OfficialOfficially resolved: Admin Console Intermittently Inaccessible
  8. OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated error rates in Codex Cloud
  9. OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations
  10. OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated Work Mode errors

Hourly measurements (UTC)

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Was ChatGPT down on October 5, 2026?

On October 5, 2026, OpenAI / ChatGPT had degraded performance between 07:03 and 02:10 UTC, about 19.1 h in total. The vendor posted 5 incidents.

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