OpenAI incident

Codex 5.5 engines are experiencing high error rate

Resolved after 2 hours 2 minutes, affecting Codex Web and Codex API and 1 more, on May 13, 2026.

monitoring May 13, 2026, 09:34 AM UTC

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Started
May 13, 2026, 08:18 AM UTC
Resolved
May 13, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC
Duration
2h 2m
Detected by Pingoru
May 13, 2026, 08:18 AM UTC

Affected components

Codex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionCodex in ChatGPT Desktop

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 13, 2026, 08:18 AM UTC

    We are currently experiencing elevated error rates for gpt-5.5.

  2. identified May 13, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC

    High error rate on codex gpt 5.5 for free users. Degraded latency on gpt 5.5 for all codex users.

  3. monitoring May 13, 2026, 09:34 AM UTC

    We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  4. resolved May 13, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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