OpenAI experienced a minor incident on July 21, 2026 affecting Images and Image Generation, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 21, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating elevated error rates affecting image generation requests via the API. We are working to restore normal service. Affected components Images (Partial outage) Image Generation (Partial outage)
- monitoring Jul 21, 2026, 08:26 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied mitigations and are seeing error rates return to normal levels. We are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Images (Operational) Image Generation (Operational)
- resolved Jul 21, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC
Status: Resolved Image generation functionality has fully recovered, and error rates have returned to normal levels. Affected components Images (Operational) Image Generation (Operational)