Elevated errors for image generation
Components
Regions
Elevated errors for image generation OpenAI provides the API, ChatGPT, embeddings, images, and related AI services that many applications call directly.
resolved · 8 Sep 2026, 21:59 UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
monitoring · 8 Sep 2026, 19:11 UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
identified · 8 Sep 2026, 16:35 UTC
We have identified the issue affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some image-generation requests may continue to fail.
investigating · 8 Sep 2026, 15:38 UTC
> We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We saw an increase in failed Images API requests after our last update. We’re applying mitigations and assessing their effect. Some image requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
investigating · 8 Sep 2026, 15:05 UTC
We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We’ve made changes aimed at reducing failures and are assessing their effect. Some requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
investigating · 8 Sep 2026, 14:32 UTC
We’re investigating elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some requests may fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
5
Related incidents
7h 26m
This incident
2h 51m
Avg. resolution time
Slower
vs. average
If your product depends on OpenAI, elevated errors during this window often come from upstream, not from your latest commit.
Open official status pageBe the first to know when we launch Pro alerts. No spam — only product updates.
Interested in
This outage lasted 7h 26m. Join the waitlist to get alerted next time.
Join the waitlist for Pro alerts — we'll notify you at launch.