Is OpenAI down right now?
Last checked 21 days ago from a real Chromium browser ().
OpenAI: HTTP 200 · loaded in 598 ms
OpenAI uptime
Uptime and charts are for the primary page, OpenAI; every page is listed below.
Last 24 hours
- Online
- Unavailable
- No check
Last 90 days
- All checks online
- Some checks unavailable (bar height = uptime)
- No data
Page load time, last 24 hours
- Page load time
- Unavailable check
OpenAI pages we monitor
| Page | Status | HTTP | Load time | Uptime 24 h | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI https://openai.com/ | Online | 200 | 598 ms | — | 21 days ago |
| ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/ | Online | 200 | 275 ms | — | 21 days ago |
| OpenAI Help Center https://help.openai.com/ | Couldn’t verify | 403 | 126 ms | — | 21 days ago |
Recent incidents
How StatusNest checks OpenAI
Every 20–60 minutes — each visit is scheduled at random inside that window, so checks never fall into a predictable pattern — a real Chromium browser running on a virtual display (Xvfb) on our monitoring server opens each of the 3 OpenAI pages we track: OpenAI, ChatGPT, OpenAI Help Center. It is a full browser, not a script, so it sees what a visitor would see.
For every visit we record the HTTP status, how long the document took to load, the final URL after redirects and the page title. A page counts as online when the server answered with a success or redirect status and a real page rendered. It counts as unavailable when the server returned an error (HTTP 4xx or 5xx), the page did not load within 30 seconds, or the address could not be resolved or connected to.
Some sites show a bot check — a “Just a moment…” or “Access denied” page — to automated browsers instead of the real page. That is not evidence of an outage: it normally means the site is up and simply refusing automated visitors. We record those visits as couldn’t verify, show them separately in the charts, and leave them out of every uptime figure and incident.
OpenAI is checked every 20–60 minutes. The headline status for OpenAI follows its primary page (OpenAI); every tracked page has its own status page. Check history is kept for 90 days. These public checks are informational and are not connected to any alerting — if you want to be called or texted when your site goes down, monitor it with StatusNest.
Frequently asked questions
- Is OpenAI down right now?
- As of our last check 21 days ago, OpenAI was up. We load it in a real Chromium browser rather than a script, so what you see here is what a visitor would get.
- How often is OpenAI checked?
- Every 20–60 minutes. Each visit is scheduled at random inside that window, so the checks never fall into a predictable pattern. We check 3 OpenAI pages: OpenAI, ChatGPT, OpenAI Help Center.
- What does "unavailable" mean?
- The page did not load in our browser: the server returned an error (HTTP 4xx or 5xx), the page timed out after 30 seconds, or the address could not be resolved or connected to.
- What does "couldn’t verify" mean?
- Some sites show a bot check (a "Just a moment…" or "Access denied" page) to automated browsers instead of the real page. When that happens we record the visit as "couldn’t verify" rather than an outage, because it is not evidence that the site is down — it usually means the site is up and refusing automated visitors. These checks count toward no uptime figure and open no incident.
- Can StatusNest monitor my website?
- Yes. Create a free account and add your domain: StatusNest checks it every 5 minutes and can phone, text and email you the moment it goes offline.