Is ChatGPT down? October 22 errors in India, Japan and Korea resolved after 6.5 hours

What was affected

OpenAI's status page lists an incident titled Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors. It is classed as degraded performance and is now marked resolved. Two components were affected: Responses under APIs, and Conversations under ChatGPT.

OpenAI's updates say the issue affected users in India, Japan and Korea. The status page also notes that its availability metrics are aggregated across all tiers, models and error types, and that availability for individual customers may vary by subscription tier, model and the API features in use.

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Timeline in UTC

02:18 UTC: OpenAI said it was investigating the issue for the listed services. 02:42 UTC: OpenAI said it had applied a mitigation and was monitoring the recovery. 08:50 UTC: OpenAI said all impacted services had fully recovered and marked the incident resolved.

From the first update at 02:18 UTC to the resolution at 08:50 UTC, the incident lasted about 6 hours 32 minutes. The affected-components timeline on the page covers the same span, 02:18 to 08:50.

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What it means for your usage and bill

The status page does not mention any change to ChatGPT usage limits, API billing, credits or refunds for this incident. It does not list Codex among the affected components. Only the Responses API and ChatGPT Conversations components appear.

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Corrections

2026-10-22: Updated factual details after a change in the linked official source.