Is ChatGPT Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of chat.openai.com plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-10-17

How to check right now

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Step 2 -- Crowdsourced reports
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User-reported outages aggregated across regions. Good signal for partial or regional outages.

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Live tweets from other users. Fastest signal for a fresh outage -- often beats status pages by 10-20 minutes.

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Known issues we've tracked

RELEASE NOTES (2026-10-16): **ChatGPT Slides** -- create presentations in Space from a conversation, files, an outline or an example deck; edit text, images, shapes and charts directly or by asking ChatGPT; invite teammates to co-edit in real time with shared comments; present from ChatGPT, or export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides on the web (the desktop app opens decks in PowerPoint or Keynote). Rolling out to eligible Pro, Business and Enterprise users with Space access on web and desktop; start by asking ChatGPT in Work to create a presentation in Space. Same day: **GPT-6 Pro** in the Chat tab got faster responses, improved plugin and tool use, and multiple agents working on parts of a task in parallel (eligible Pro users; managed workspaces depend on settings).
2026-10-17•help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes
OCTOBER 14-15: GPT-4o AND GPT-4.1 API REMOVAL DATE, GPT-LIVE-1.1 IN VOICE, NO SITES CAP, ROSALIND ACADEMIC PLAN (vendor-primary): **(1) API deprecation notice (10/14):** 'On October 14, 2026, we notified developers using certain GPT-4 series models of their deprecation and removal from the API on January 14, 2027.' Rows: GPT-4o (gpt-4o-2024-08-06, gpt-4o-2024-11-20), GPT-4o mini (gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18), GPT-4.1 (gpt-4.1-2025-04-14) and GPT-4.1 mini (gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14), all with **gpt-6-luna** as the recommended replacement; 'Fine-tuned versions of these models follow the same shutdown schedule as their underlying base models.' This is an API change; ChatGPT's own model picker is not affected by this notice. **(2) Release notes, 10/15:** GPT-Live-1.1 and the mini GPT-Live-1.1 Quip rolling out in ChatGPT Voice with new French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mexican Spanish and 'Bubbie' voices (details on the GPT-Live page); **Sites on Plus and Pro: 'There is no longer a fixed limit on the number of Sites you can create. Usage and storage limits continue to apply.'** **(3) Rosalind Academic Plan (10/15):** eligible US university labs can get 'up to 30 Business Standard seats at $0 per user per month for up to 12 months', with GPT-Rosalind 'subject to trusted-access approval' plus 'all commercially available frontier OpenAI models, subject to plan usage limits'; API access not included; research data not used for training by default; labs at universities with an Enterprise agreement apply through that process (details on the GPT-Rosalind page). Also 10/15: a Teachers' Day post launching OpenAI Academy's AI for Educators course in Brazilian Portuguese and promoting Study Mode -- no product change.
2026-10-15•OpenAI API deprecations (platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations.md, section '2026-10-14: GPT-4 series model deprecations'); ChatGPT release notes (help.openai.com, heading 'October 15, 2026'); openai.com/index/introducing-the-rosalind-academic-plan/ (publicationDateText 'October 15, 2026') -- all fetched 2026-10-15
GPT-6 AND INTELLIGENT UI COME TO CHAT -- GPT-6 SOL FOR PAID PLANS, GPT-6 LUNA FOR FREE AND GO (2026-10-07, vendor-primary): OpenAI brought GPT-6 to the Chat tab, three weeks after GPT-6 Sol and Luna launched in Work, Codex and the API with the line 'not yet available in Chat'. **Models:** 'GPT-6 in ChatGPT is powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers, and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers. Both are tuned for everyday conversation.' The Pro reasoning option 'continues to use GPT-6 Astra'; 'the models powering Work and Codex are not changing'. **Rollout:** global from 10/07 for Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise (Enterprise subject to admin settings), **Free and Go from 10/08**. **Intelligent UI:** 'We've trained GPT-6 to compose responses using text, visuals and interactive elements' -- graphics, tappable buttons, forms, charts and interactive experiences, built from 'a library of native, streamable components, along with a compiler that processes the interface as the model generates it', so the interface appears progressively. Examples OpenAI gives: a recipe timeline beside the recipe, road-trip stops on a map, savings calculators, bill splitters, in-chat games. The help-centre FAQ adds: works from Instant through Extra High reasoning; **not in the Work tab, not in Voice, not on the Astra Pro reasoning option**; turn it down via Personalization > Layout and Visuals > Simple (web); some component state (checklists) survives a refresh but not across threads. **Interleaved answering:** GPT-6 can begin answering while it continues to think or use tools and then add findings; OpenAI's internal figures (vendor, unverified): GPT-6 Extra High starts answering as fast as GPT-5.6 Medium while scoring above GPT-5.6 Extra High on its agentic-task eval, and **GPT-6 Instant starts web-search answers 44% sooner than GPT-5.6 Instant**. Safety claims are made relative to GPT-5.6 Sol (multi-turn jailbreak resistance, honesty about limits), with a system card. **What this changes on this page:** the 'GPT-6 is not in Chat' caveat that ran from 9/22 is retired for GPT-6 Sol and Luna; GPT-6.1 Sol is still a Work / Codex / API model. OpenAI also repeats the '1.2 billion people who use ChatGPT each week' figure.
2026-10-07•OpenAI (openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/, publicationDateText 'October 7, 2026'); ChatGPT release notes heading 'October 7, 2026' ('GPT-6 and Intelligent UI in ChatGPT'); OpenAI Help Center 'Intelligent UI in ChatGPT' (help.openai.com/en/articles/20001598, 'Updated: 4 days ago' on 2026-10-12) -- all fetched 2026-10-12 via curl with browser UA
AUDIO UPLOADS IN CHATGPT (2026-10-06, vendor-primary release note): users can now upload audio files 'to create transcripts, summarize recordings, and ask questions about their contents' -- meetings, interviews or lectures into structured notes or a follow-up email draft. **Paid ChatGPT subscriptions and workspaces only**; availability 'may vary by workspace settings, region, client version, and model', and OpenAI warns transcripts may contain errors and quality varies by language. No file-length or format limits are stated in the note.
2026-10-06•OpenAI ChatGPT release notes (help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes, heading 'October 6, 2026', 'Audio uploads in ChatGPT') -- fetched 2026-10-12 via curl with browser UA
ATLASSIAN PARTNERSHIP EXPANDED -- GPT-6 MODELS ACROSS ATLASSIAN AND ROVO, JIRA AND CONFLUENCE PLUGINS FOR CHATGPT (2026-10-06, vendor-primary): 'Under a new agreement, OpenAI frontier models will power agents across Atlassian's platform and Rovo', with Atlassian gaining 'expanded access to the latest OpenAI frontier models, including GPT-6 Astra and the GPT-5.6 series'. For ChatGPT users the concrete pieces are the **Atlassian and Teamwork Graph CLI plugins for ChatGPT and Codex** (project information, documentation and development context 'subject to appropriate permissions') and Atlassian's plugin extension that 'brings Jira work items, Confluence content, and people directly into ChatGPT and Codex prompts', plus a pinned Atlassian Home with assigned work, recent Looms, projects and Bitbucket pull requests. OpenAI's own example: a product manager asks Rovo whether a launch is on track and it connects Jira tickets, Confluence pages and discussions to flag engineering blockers and missed milestones. Atlassian also 'broadens its own adoption of Codex and ChatGPT Enterprise' (3,000+ developers on Codex). Deeper Jira integrations for assigning work to agents are something the companies 'are exploring', not shipped. No price or plan change.
2026-10-06•OpenAI (openai.com/index/atlassian-partnership/, publicationDateText 'October 6, 2026') -- fetched 2026-10-06 via curl with browser UA
FIRST 'COMPUTER-USE RESEARCH PARTNER' -- GPT-6 ASTRA TRAINED ON IRONCLAD CONTRACTING TASKS SCORES 55.0% VS 41.6% FOR GPT-5.6 SOL (2026-10-06, vendor-primary): OpenAI says its 'next goal is to make agents more capable and efficient at using specialized software to solve complex business problems' and is 'partnering directly with a small number of software companies' to turn their workflows into training and evaluation tasks. **Ironclad (AI contracting) is the first partner.** Ironclad staff and OpenAI's own Ironclad users defined **11 tasks across legal, commercial and procurement work** (setting up NDAs, procurement approval processes, jurisdiction-aware reusable clauses), each estimated at 30 to 40 minutes for an experienced human and graded against 8 to 50 criteria; Ironclad provided hosted environments and OpenAI trained with synthetic tasks plus reinforcement learning. **Result:** 'GPT-6 Astra is our first frontier model trained on Ironclad tasks' -- mean rubric score **55.0% (Astra, Max reasoning) vs 41.6% (GPT-5.6 Sol, High reasoning)**, estimated time per attempt **19.2 vs 37.0 minutes**; OpenAI frames this as a 32% higher score at 48% less time. An internal development model reached 63.7%, 'and we aim to bring these further gains to future models'. OpenAI is inviting more software companies that can bring 'a concrete example' of a task agents still fail, a secure test environment and research-usable data. **How to read it:** a vendor-designed 11-task evaluation on one partner's product, not a public benchmark; it is the clearest statement yet that OpenAI is training Astra on specific enterprise software, which matters for anyone comparing Astra's computer-use claims with Claude's or Copilot's.
2026-10-06•OpenAI (openai.com/index/advancing-computer-use-with-ironclad/, publicationDateText 'October 6, 2026') -- fetched 2026-10-06 via curl with browser UA

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if ChatGPT is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

A

Perplexity AI

8.5

**Perplexity Computer gained Automations on 2026-09-29 -- long-running agents that run on a schedule or when an event fires in Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Linear or GitHub, remember prior runs instead of starting from scratch, and replace Scheduled Tasks** -- followed on 10/01 by a curated set of ten business Skills for US American Express Business Card Members on a Perplexity Enterprise subscription (cash flow forecasting, tax prep, vendor benchmarking; Skills consume Computer Credits). Earlier: **Perplexity names its local models at last: Portable Computer reached AMD Ryzen AI Max PCs on 2026-09-24 running PPLX 27B (Perplexity's own post-trained model) or Qwen 3.8 27B**, 24 GB of GPU-accessible memory minimum, Windows 10/11, ~20 GB disk, Pro and Max on individual and enterprise plans -- and local inference does not consume Computer credits. On 2026-09-28 the **Agent API gained reusable agents**: versioned Profiles (model, instructions, tools, run settings under one ID), versioned Skills and managed connectors (GitHub, Slack, Google Drive, Datadog, Linear, Notion in preview). Its 9/23 'Escaping SPACE' report red-teamed the sandbox behind Computer: no VM-to-host escape in 108 runs, but four models bypassed network confinement via DNS spoofing or shared-IP routing before defenses were fixed. The 9/21 GLM 5.2 disclosure stands.

A

Alexa+

8.3

Amazon's reborn consumer AI assistant -- rolls out to every Alexa device with memory, multi-turn agent tasks, and Fire TV navigation

B

Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)

7.8

Google's free research assistant that turns your documents into an AI you can query -- and a podcast you can listen to. **Renamed from NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook on 2026-07-16**, still a standalone product, now with in-notebook code execution and syncing across the Gemini app and Search. **Expert Intelligence (2026-08-27) makes purchased Play Books ebooks a first-class source**; compute-weighted usage limits took effect 2026-09-02 -- they refresh every 5 hours **but sit under an undisclosed weekly cap**, with AI Plus at 2x standard, AI Pro 4x and AI Ultra 5x or 20x above Pro (Google's help pages still read prospectively and still publish the old daily table -- no delay announced)

B

Microsoft Copilot

7.5

Microsoft's answer to ChatGPT -- free GPT-4 access with Bing search built in, but it feels like a corporate product

B

Poe

7.5

One subscription, every major AI model -- Quora's multi-model chatbot lets you switch between GPT-4, Claude, and more

About ChatGPT

Tier A (8.8/10). **Oct 16: ChatGPT Slides began rolling out to Pro, Business and Enterprise users with Space access -- build a deck from a chat, files or an outline, co-edit it with teammates in real time, and export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides -- and GPT-6 Pro in the Chat tab got faster responses, better plugin and tool use, and parallel agents for Pro users.** **Oct 15: GPT-Live-1.1 began rolling out in ChatGPT Voice, Plus and Pro lost the fixed cap on how many Sites you can create, and US academic labs can apply for the Rosalind Academic Plan (up to 30 free Business seats for 12 months); on 10/14 OpenAI gave API developers notice that GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini snapshots leave the API on 2027-01-14.** **GPT-6 reached the Chat tab on 2026-10-07 with Intelligent UI: answers can now be built from interactive components (diagrams, maps, calculators, forms, small games), GPT-6 can start answering while it keeps thinking, and the rollout runs GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go (from 10/08). Audio file uploads for transcripts and summaries arrived 10/06 on paid plans.** **Oct 6: OpenAI expanded its Atlassian partnership (GPT-6 family models power Rovo and Atlassian agents; Jira, Confluence and Teamwork Graph plugins for ChatGPT and Codex) and published its first computer-use research partnership, with Ironclad, where GPT-6 Astra scored 55.0% on 11 contracting-software tasks against 41.6% for GPT-5.6 Sol in roughly half the time.** **Custom GPTs are being retired: Dec 11, 2026 for all plans (Feb 11, 2027 for Enterprise workspaces with an approved deferral), with new-GPT creation ending Oct 26 -- migrate them to plugins, and note that custom actions do not transfer.** A new Enterprise rate card replaces per-message Chat billing with per-token rates (GPT-6 Pro $10/$50, GPT-5.6 Sol $4/$20 per 1M) and publishes first prices for Daybreak Red and Astra for Law. On 10/05 OpenAI also added a visual ad format inside image generation (US test later this month) and said EU ChatGPT and Codex output will carry an invisible text watermark within weeks, with worldwide API opt-in from today. **DevDay 2026 (2026-09-29) added a model, an agent class and a $500 plan in one day: GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/$10 per 1M with cached input cut to $0.10, dots (always-on agents with their own cloud computer, powered by GPT-6 Astra), and Pro 500 with Astra Ultrafast** -- plus Codex Cloud, Pages and Space, the Meetings plugin, Sign in with ChatGPT across 16 partner apps and a reopened Pro 200. GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's token prices, but like GPT-6 Sol it runs in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API and is 'not yet available in Chat'. Then on 9/30 OpenAI said it had disrupted a coordinated model-distillation campaign it attributes to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, and on 10/01 it put tts-1, tts-1-hd and gpt-4o-mini-tts on a 2027-01-06 API removal list and GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.4-Nano on a 2027-04-01 list. Virtual try-on shopping (10/01) and Finances for Free and Go (10/02) round out the window.

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