OpenAI incident
Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare
Started
September 15, 2026 at 11:50 PM UTC
Duration
40 min
Resolved
September 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM UTC
Updates timeline
- Investigating
We are experiencing elevated error rates for image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare in the API. Our team is working to mitigate the issue. We will provide another update as more information becomes available.
- Monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- Resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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