ChatGPT users are experiencing service disruptions, with reports of issues surging to 90 on August 13, as tracked by Downdetector.
OpenAI's ChatGPT, browser, and Codex went down August 13, with ~90 reports vs. baseline 2; ChatGPT was 64% of incidents. Recent outages signal infrastructure risk, potentially accelerating enterprise moves toward multi-vendor LLM architectures to reduce OpenAI dependency.
The outage is affecting multiple OpenAI services
Aug 13, 2026
01:16 pm
What's the storyOpenAI's AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is facing a major outage today. According to Downdetector, the number of reports related to OpenAI has spiked significantly.
The platform recorded about 90 reports at 11:59am today, compared to a baseline of just two.
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