Sora Outage History

Sora had 5 outages in the last 2 years — averaging 0.2 incidents per month.

There were 5 Sora outages since February 19, 2026. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.openai.com

Minor April 29, 2026

ChatGPT users may encounter issues in conversation

Detected by Pingoru: Apr 29, 2026, 05:27 AM UTC
Resolved: Apr 29, 2026, 05:27 AM UTC
Duration: —

Affected: ResponsesFine-tuningImagesBatchAudioModerationsSoraCodex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionChatGPT AtlasFedRAMPEmbeddingsChat CompletionsRealtimeFilesFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIAppDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin

Timeline · 2 updates

investigating Apr 29, 2026, 05:18 AM UTC

Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Compliance API (Operational) Sora (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Search (Operational) Conversations (Partial outage) Realtime (Operational) Login (Operational) FedRAMP (Operational) Audio (Operational) Agent (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Images (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Codex API (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Files (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) CLI (Operational) App (Operational) Login (Operational) Batch (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Responses (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Moderations (Operational)
resolved Apr 29, 2026, 05:27 AM UTC

Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components File uploads (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Login (Operational) Realtime (Operational) Files (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Sora (Operational) Audio (Operational) Login (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Images (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) Responses (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Codex API (Operational) Batch (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) CLI (Operational) App (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Search (Operational) FedRAMP (Operational)

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Minor April 28, 2026

Elevated error rates in Sora API for some users

Detected by Pingoru: Apr 28, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC
Resolved: Apr 28, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC
Duration: —

Affected: Sora

Timeline · 3 updates

investigating Apr 28, 2026, 01:52 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Sora (Degraded performance)
monitoring Apr 28, 2026, 02:18 PM UTC

Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Sora (Degraded performance)
resolved Apr 28, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC

Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Sora (Operational)

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Minor March 5, 2026

High Error Rate in Realtime API (EU)

Detected by Pingoru: Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
Resolved: Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
Duration: —

Affected: ResponsesFine-tuningImagesBatchAudioModerationsSoraCodex WebChatGPT AtlasEmbeddingsChat CompletionsRealtimeFilesFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin

Timeline · 3 updates

identified Mar 05, 2026, 06:19 AM UTC

Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Images (Operational) Batch (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Login (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Sora (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Search (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Realtime (Degraded performance) Audio (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Responses (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Files (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational)
monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 06:49 AM UTC

Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Image Generation (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Batch (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Search (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Login (Operational) Files (Operational) Responses (Operational) Images (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Agent (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Sora (Operational) Realtime (Degraded performance) Login (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Audio (Operational) Compliance API (Operational)
resolved Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC

Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Conversations (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Files (Operational) Batch (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Agent (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Search (Operational) Realtime (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Login (Operational) Images (Operational) Audio (Operational) Sora (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Responses (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Login (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational)

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Minor March 2, 2026

Errors in Sora API

Detected by Pingoru: Mar 02, 2026, 05:09 PM UTC
Resolved: Mar 02, 2026, 05:09 PM UTC
Duration: —

Affected: Sora

Timeline · 2 updates

investigating Mar 02, 2026, 03:59 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We are investigating increased error dates in Sora API. Affected components Sora (Degraded performance)
resolved Mar 02, 2026, 05:09 PM UTC

Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Sora (Operational)

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Minor February 19, 2026

Issues with API Platform Audit Logs

Detected by Pingoru: Feb 19, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
Resolved: Feb 19, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
Duration: —

Timeline · 1 update

resolved Feb 19, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC

Status: Resolved We have observed issues with API Platform audit logs. Affected components Image Generation (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Images (Operational) Files (Operational) Login (Operational) Sora (Operational) Login (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Realtime (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Batch (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Search (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Responses (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Agent (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Audio (Operational)

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