OpenAI incident
Degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode
OpenAI experienced a minor incident on October 13, 2026 affecting Codex Web and Codex API and 1 more component, lasting 8h 18m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 13, 2026, 08:10 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- investigating Oct 13, 2026, 08:18 AM UTC
Status: Investigating Degraded performance on GPT 6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Work (Degraded performance)
- investigating Oct 13, 2026, 08:22 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Work (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance)
- monitoring Oct 13, 2026, 09:30 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Work (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance)
- resolved Oct 13, 2026, 04:36 PM UTC
Status: Resolved We have resolved the issue causing degraded performance with GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex and ChatGPT Work. Affected components Codex Web (Operational) CLI (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) Codex API (Operational) ChatGPT Work (Operational)