Is ChatGPT down?

Is ChatGPT suddenly not working? Then you want to know one thing: is it you, or is there a nationwide ChatGPT outage? Report an outage below with one click and look straight at the red graph to see how many other people are reporting the same thing right now. A clear spike means it isn't your internet or your account, but that ChatGPT is down more broadly.

The counter above tallies reports per hour. If you see a sharp spike in the last hour, ChatGPT is very likely having an outage right now. If the graph stays low and flat, ChatGPT is probably working fine and the problem is local to you. You can switch the graph between the last 24 hours and the last 30 days, so you can also see earlier outage spikes.

How do I know if ChatGPT is really offline?

You recognise a real ChatGPT outage by a few things at once. Messages hang on loading, you get errors like "something went wrong" or "an error occurred", or the page at chatgpt.com stops loading entirely. If you see a spike in the reports above at the same moment, that is a strong signal it's a nationwide or global outage and not just something on your end.

• Answers hang or stop halfway through a sentence.
• You see errors like "something went wrong" or a red message.
• The login page or chatgpt.com won't load or gives a 500 or 503 error.
• The API returns timeouts, so tools and integrations that run on ChatGPT also fail.

Is it an outage or is it me?

Before you assume a nationwide outage, quickly rule out the obvious causes. If it's on your side, the graph above helps you see that: if almost no reports are coming in while you're getting an error, the problem is probably local.

• Refresh the page and try it in an incognito window, without browser extensions.
• Check your internet connection and try a different network or your mobile data.
• Log out and back in, or clear your browser cache for chatgpt.com.
• Check whether you've hit a usage limit on the free version; that feels like an outage but isn't one.

What can you do during a ChatGPT outage?

During a real outage there is little to do but wait for OpenAI to fix it, which usually happens within a few minutes to an hour. In the meantime you can switch to an alternative AI model like Claude or Gemini, or continue your work without AI for a bit. If you're working with important prompts or long conversations, copy them locally so you don't lose anything if the session drops.

Why a ChatGPT outage hits your business

For an individual user, a half-hour outage is mostly annoying. For a business that has built processes on ChatGPT, it's a different story. If your customer service, your content production or an internal tool runs directly on the public ChatGPT app or on a single API key, then every outage brings a part of your business to a standstill. You have no control over when it happens and no way to fix it faster.

That is exactly the risk of leaning entirely on one external AI service with no plan around it. The strength of AI isn't in the standalone chatbot, but in how you build it in: with a fallback to another model, with monitoring that flags an outage immediately, and with your own data and logic around it so you don't grind to a halt the moment one supplier stumbles.

Scalable AI that doesn't fall over on one outage

At Datagrove we build AI solutions that can genuinely carry your business, instead of a standalone chatbot that collapses the moment the supplier has an outage. We work model-agnostic: if one model goes down, your system automatically switches to another. We build with monitoring, fallbacks and your own data around it, so AI becomes a reliable part of your business rather than a risk.

Want to use AI in a way that keeps working, even when ChatGPT is briefly down? Read more about our custom AI solutions or get in touch and we'll think along with you about a setup that scales and doesn't stall.