Is ChatGPT down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached chatgpt.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 5d 21h.
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Incident history
LAST 90 DAYSAbout ChatGPT outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
ChatGPT, OpenAI's conversational AI assistant, has become embedded in daily workflows for writing, coding, research, and customer support - which means an outage doesn't just interrupt browsing, it stalls work for millions of people and the growing number of businesses that call ChatGPT's API inside their own products. Because so much traffic funnels through a small number of shared model-serving clusters, ChatGPT outages tend to be global and simultaneous rather than regional, and they often coincide with new model releases or periods of unusually heavy demand. OpenAI publishes an official status page, but it can lag real user impact by several minutes, which is why an independent, immediate check is often the fastest way to confirm what you're seeing.
Common causes of ChatGPT downtime
Capacity overload during peak hours or right after a new model launch, when demand spikes faster than serving capacity scales
Backend API errors that return partial or malformed responses without fully dropping the connection
Authentication/session-layer issues that lock users out while the chat interface itself still loads
Regional network routing problems that make ChatGPT unreachable from specific countries or ISPs while working everywhere else
Not sure whether it's ChatGPT or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests chatgpt.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than ChatGPT being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.
No - as of the most recent check, chatgpt.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 5d 21h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, chatgpt.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 5d 21h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
Yes - OpenAI publishes status updates for ChatGPT and its API at its official status page, which tracks incidents across the ChatGPT web app, mobile apps, and API separately, since these can fail independently (the API can be healthy while the consumer chat UI is degraded, or vice versa). Official status pages are useful for post-incident detail but are compiled and posted by a human team, so there's often a lag between the first user-facing failures and a public acknowledgment. An independent live check from multiple network locations tells you what's happening right now, before or without waiting for an official post.
This is usually not a ChatGPT outage at all, but a difference in network path, DNS cache, or a local browser/extension issue between the two devices. Mobile data and home Wi-Fi often route through completely different networks and DNS resolvers, so a routing problem or DNS propagation issue affecting one path may not affect the other. It can also point to a browser extension (ad blockers and privacy extensions are common culprits) interfering with ChatGPT's web app on one device but not the mobile app. Testing chatgpt.com from several independent worldwide locations, rather than just your two devices, is the fastest way to tell whether it's a real service-wide outage or a local/device-specific issue.
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