Is ChatGPT down? November 8 image generation errors lasted 1 hour 49 minutes

What happened

OpenAI's status page lists an incident titled "Elevated errors with image generation" on Sunday, November 8, 2026. It was rated degraded performance and is now marked resolved. The only affected component listed is Image Generation under ChatGPT.

The affected components window runs from 03:11 PM to 05:00 PM. In UTC, as given in the page's data, that is 15:11 UTC to 17:00 UTC, about 1 hour 49 minutes.

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Timeline

At 15:11 UTC OpenAI posted that users were experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services and that it was working on a mitigation.

At 15:43 UTC OpenAI said it had applied a mitigation and was monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.

At 17:00 UTC OpenAI marked the incident resolved, saying all affected services are operating normally again.

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What it means for usage and billing

The status page gives no cause for the errors and does not mention any change to usage limits, resets or billing. Codex and the OpenAI API are not listed among the affected components. The page also notes that availability is reported in aggregate, and that individual customers' experience may vary by subscription tier, model and the API features they use.

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Corrections

2026-11-08: Updated factual details after a change in the linked official source.