OpenAI experienced a minor incident on September 16, 2026 affecting Images, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Images
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 15, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC
Status: Investigating 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. Affected components Images (Partial outage)
- monitoring Sep 15, 2026, 11:58 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Images (Partial outage)
- resolved Sep 16, 2026, 12:30 AM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Images (Operational)