OpenAI incident

Codex 5.5 engines are experiencing high error rate

Major Ongoing View vendor source →

OpenAI is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Codex Web and Codex API and 1 more component, which began 37 min ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
May 13, 2026, 09:34 AM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 37m
Detected by Pingoru
May 13, 2026, 09:34 AM UTC

Affected components

Codex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionApp

Update timeline

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

    Status: Investigating We are currently experiencing elevated error rates for gpt-5.5. Affected components CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance)

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

    Status: Identified High error rate on codex gpt 5.5 for free users. Degraded latency on gpt 5.5 for all codex users. Affected components Codex API (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance)

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

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance)