Is Codex (OpenAI) Down?

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

Last editorial review: 2026-07-09

How to check right now

Step 1 -- Load the site
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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.

Step 4 -- Official status page
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Known issues we've tracked

APP MERGER + GPT-5.6 (2026-07-09): The **standalone Codex app is merging into the new unified ChatGPT desktop app** (Mac/Windows) -- update the Codex app and it becomes the ChatGPT app with Chat, Work, and Codex surfaces; developers can set Codex as the default view and keep the Codex icon; desktop Codex projects are accessible from the ChatGPT mobile app; the old ChatGPT desktop app is renamed 'ChatGPT Classic.' Codex itself gains: **inline editing within diffs, PR review in the side panel, faster computer use (powered by GPT-5.6), and multi-repo projects**. Model lineup: **GPT-5.6 GA in Codex same day** -- Free/Go get Terra; Plus+ pick Sol/Terra/Luna with per-model effort; `max` toggleable for all GPT-5.6 users; **`ultra` (4 parallel agents) available from Plus up in Codex**. Scale disclosure: 5M+ weekly Codex users, 1M+ using it for non-development work. Net read: Codex stops being a separate app and becomes the engine inside ChatGPT's agent stack (ChatGPT Work is built on Codex technology -- see /tools/chatgpt-work)
2026-07-09•OpenAI (openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/), OpenAI (openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/)
FEATURE CLUSTER (May-June 2026, all vendor changelog): **5/14 Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app** (iOS/Android) -- monitor and drive Codex sessions from your phone by connecting to a Mac running the Codex app (remote control, not standalone mobile execution). **5/21 Goal mode GA** -- out of experimental, available in Codex app + IDE extension + CLI. **5/29 Computer Use on Windows** + remote control of Windows devices. **6/1 Amazon Bedrock support** -- Codex can use supported OpenAI models through Bedrock. **6/2 Sites preview** -- create AND deploy websites/web apps to OpenAI-hosted infrastructure from inside Codex. The Sites ship is the notable one: Codex now competes directly with Lovable/Bolt/v0 on the build-and-host loop, not just the code-generation step
2026-06-02•OpenAI Codex changelog (developers.openai.com/codex/changelog)
GPT-5.2-Codex shipped 2026-04-23 as a coding-specialized variant separate from the consumer GPT-5.5 launch. Available to all paid ChatGPT users across Codex web/CLI/IDE surfaces today; API access in coming weeks. Posts SOTA on SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0. Improvements: long-horizon agentic coding via context compaction, large refactors and migrations, Windows env perf, and cybersecurity. Direct upgrade over GPT-5.3-Codex for serious agentic work -- if you're on Plus or Pro, your Codex defaults are already on the new model
2026-04-23•OpenAI: Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex (openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/), OpenAI Codex changelog
Codex Chronicle launched 2026-04-20/21 as an opt-in research preview for ChatGPT Pro on macOS only (NOT available in EU/UK/Switzerland). Captures screen content + builds persistent memories so Codex understands what you're working on without manual context-restating. Privacy details: screenshots stored locally in $TMPDIR/chronicle/screen_recording/ auto-deleted after 6 hours; generated memories live unencrypted as markdown at ~/.codex/memories_extensions/chronicle/; OpenAI servers don't retain processed screenshots and don't train on them. OpenAI explicitly flags 'increased prompt-injection attack surface from screen content' -- pause Chronicle before meetings or sensitive material. Currently consumes rate limits aggressively. Closest comparison is Microsoft Recall but with stronger local-storage guarantees
2026-04•OpenAI Chronicle docs (developers.openai.com/codex/memories/chronicle), Help Net Security, 9to5Mac
Security vulnerability discovered where branch parameter allowed shell command injection during environment setup -- fixed by OpenAI with improved input validation
2026-03•BeyondTrust Phantom Labs, TechRadar
CLI was macOS-only at launch, frustrating Windows and Linux users -- broader platform support now rolling out
2026-04•Reddit r/openai, GitHub issues

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

What to use if Codex (OpenAI) is down

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

A

GitHub Copilot

8.3

AI code assistant that lives in your editor -- autocomplete on steroids. Usage-based billing went LIVE 2026-06-01: AI Credits + token metering across all plans, code completions still free. New Copilot Max tier added the same day. New signups for Student/Pro/Pro+/Max remain PAUSED. As of 2026-06-02 (Microsoft Build), Microsoft's own MAI-Code-1-Flash is rolling into the VS Code model picker

A

Cursor

8.3

AI-native code editor, agent-first in Cursor 3 -- and now home to Grok 4.5 (launched 2026-07-08), the frontier MoE model Cursor trained jointly with SpaceXAI on trillions of Cursor tokens ($2/$6 per 1M, all plans, desktop/web/iOS/CLI/SDK), with Composer 2.5 as the fast lower-cost tier

A

Google Antigravity

8.0

Google's agent-first AI IDE -- deploys up to 5 autonomous coding agents in parallel on a VS Code fork. Antigravity 2.0 (I/O 2026) is the runtime substrate for Gemini Spark, and the Antigravity CLI is now the official successor to Gemini CLI, which stopped serving consumer tiers on 2026-06-18

A

Roblox Assistant

8.0

Roblox Studio's agentic AI that plans, builds, and playtests games. Planning Mode (2026-04-16) + Mesh Generation + Procedural Models brings 3D-native creation to 70M+ daily creators

B

Claude Code

7.8

Anthropic's terminal-based coding agent that reads your whole repo and makes real changes -- not just suggestions. v2.1.131 (2026-05-06 Code with Claude conf) shipped Code Review GA + Remote Agents + CI Auto-Fix + Routines, plus 2x rate-limit increase from the SpaceX compute deal

About Codex (OpenAI)

Tier A (8.3/10). OpenAI's coding agent -- parallel tasks, PRs, and as of 2026-07-09 merged into the unified ChatGPT desktop app (Chat + Work + Codex, every plan incl. Free) with GPT-5.6 across the lineup

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