OpenAI incident

Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare

Major Resolved

Started

September 15, 2026 at 11:50 PM UTC

Duration

40 min

Resolved

September 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM UTC

Updates timeline

  1. 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.

  2. Monitoring

    We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  3. Resolved

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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