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OpenAI API incident

Elevated latency in the Responses API

Resolved after 20 h 37 min.

Started
Ended
Worst state
Degraded
On OpenAI API’s status page
Source
Components
Responses

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Timeline

  1. OpenAI API status page · Reported Elevated latency in the Responses API
  2. OpenAI API status page · Identified We have identified an issue causing elevated latency for some Responses API requests. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
  3. OpenAI API status page · Monitoring We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.
  4. OpenAI API status page · Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
  5. OpenAI API status page · Identified We have identified elevated latencies impacting Responses API on the US endpoint.
  6. OpenAI API status page · Identified We are implementing the mitigation.
  7. OpenAI API status page · Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
  8. OpenAI API status page · Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Cite this incident

Site Qwality, “Elevated latency in the Responses API,” Aug 31, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-openai-down/incidents/openai-202608312227/

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