Is ChatGPT Down Right Now?

The instant check tool above tests chatgpt.com live from HostTracker's network of 300+ worldwide locations at once, rather than from 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.

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.