Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare
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Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare OpenAI provides the API, ChatGPT, embeddings, images, and related AI services that many applications call directly.
resolved · 16 Sep 2026, 00:30 UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
monitoring · 15 Sep 2026, 23:58 UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
investigating · 15 Sep 2026, 23:50 UTC
We are experiencing elevated error rates for image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare in the API. Our team is working to mitigate the issue. We will provide another update as more information becomes available.
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