Is ChatGPT down?
Live status for ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com)
Last 24 hours
Loading…In the 24 hours before 2026-07-17 (UTC), ChatGPT answered 95 of our 95 checks — 100% uptime with an average response of 175ms.
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About ChatGPT outages
ChatGPT is OpenAI’s conversational AI assistant with hundreds of millions of users. Under peak demand it degrades in recognizable ways: responses stall mid-sentence, conversations fail to load, or you’re asked to retry.
ChatGPT publishes official incident updates at its status page — worth checking alongside our live test above.
What to do when ChatGPT is down
- Start a brand-new chat instead of continuing an old one; if new conversations work while an existing thread will not load, the conversation-history service is the specific piece affected.
- Switch models in the picker if you have access to more than one, since a single model can be overloaded while another on the same account responds normally.
- Try the mobile app if the web interface is stuck, or the reverse, since chatgpt.com and the apps do not always share the same failure window.
- Check status.openai.com's ChatGPT component specifically rather than the API component, since consumer traffic and developer traffic are reported separately.
ChatGPT alternatives to use in the meantime
While ChatGPT is down or overloaded, Claude and Google Gemini offer comparable conversational AI through their own web apps, unaffected by an OpenAI-specific incident. If you were mid-task on something worth keeping, export or copy the conversation once ChatGPT recovers rather than starting the work over elsewhere. For coding help specifically, GitHub Copilot's chat runs on separate infrastructure and may stay available.
ChatGPT FAQ
Why does ChatGPT stop responding mid-answer?
Responses that freeze partway usually reflect capacity strain or an incident on OpenAI’s inference infrastructure rather than your connection. Regenerating the response often works, and OpenAI’s status page confirms when elevated ChatGPT error rates are active.
ChatGPT keeps erroring or says it’s at capacity — what can I do?
Capacity errors are demand-driven and pass on their own, typically within the hour. Logging out does not help; if you rely on it for work, retrying at off-peak hours or using the API (a separate component) are the practical workarounds.
Is ChatGPT down for everyone or just me?
We test ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com) live from our own servers. If our check succeeds but you still can't connect, the outage is probably local to you — try another network or device, clear your cache, or check ChatGPT's official status channels.
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