Is Codex down? Resolved: November 5 Codex Web errors lasted 1 hour 40 minutes

What was affected and for how long

OpenAI's status page lists an incident titled ChatGPT Work and Dots Errors, rated degraded performance and now marked resolved. It names three components: Codex Web under Codex, and ChatGPT Work and dots under ChatGPT.

The page lists the affected components from 15:25 UTC to 17:05 UTC on November 5, 2026, about 1 hour 40 minutes. At 17:05 UTC OpenAI said it had applied a mitigation and was watching the affected services to confirm recovery.

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Status page timeline

OpenAI posted that it was investigating a possible issue at 15:25 UTC and again at 15:30 UTC and 16:26 UTC. At 16:57 UTC it said users were seeing elevated errors on the affected services and that it was working on a mitigation. The mitigation and monitoring update came at 17:05 UTC.

OpenAI marked the incident resolved at 04:31 UTC on November 6, 2026, saying all affected services were working normally again. That post came about 13 hours 6 minutes after the first update. The errors themselves ran during the shorter 15:25 to 17:05 UTC window above.

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Usage and billing

The status page gives no cause and says nothing about effects on usage limits, resets or billing for Codex or ChatGPT users. The page also notes that its availability figures are aggregated across all tiers, models and error types, so what individual customers saw may differ.

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Corrections

2026-11-06: Updated factual details after a change in the linked official source.

2026-11-07: Updated factual details after a change in the linked official source.