Was OpenAI down in August 2026?
Not fully — OpenAI stayed up in August 2026, but reported 2 periods of degraded service.
We check OpenAI's official status page about once an hour and record what it reports. This page covers 102 checks across 6 days in August 2026.
August 2026 at a glance
100%Uptime counts every check where OpenAI was not reporting an outage. It was fully healthy on 97.1% of checks, and reporting degraded service on the other 3.
- Checks recorded
- 102
- All clear
- 99
- Degraded
- 3
- Outage
- 0
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OpenAI incidents in August 2026
- Degraded service
Lasted ~1 hour across 2 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted under 1 hour across 1 consecutive check.
How we measure this
About once an hour we read OpenAI's official status feed and record exactly what it says — we don't infer status from our own connection to them. When the feed can't be read, we record nothing rather than guess, so a gap in the chart above means “not monitored”, never “down”.
Uptime is the share of the 102 recorded checks where OpenAI was not reporting an outage — a provider flagging degraded service is still up. Providers often sit at “degraded” for days over one small component, so counting that as downtime would say a service was offline all month when its own page said nothing of the kind. Degradation is reported separately, in the figures above and the timeline below.
This is a sample, not continuous monitoring: an incident that started and finished between two checks won't appear here, and a run can be missed. Treat these figures as what OpenAI was reporting at the moments we looked — the official page is the authority. Official OpenAI status page →