AI Service Outages Sep–Oct 2026: OpenAI and Claude Incident Stats
110 incidents from seven official status pages, 2026-09-17 to 10-17, broken down by vendor, severity and duration, with retry, fallback and failover tactics.
Is it down? / OpenAI
No issues foundNo user-reported issues in the past 1 hours, and the official status page shows: All Systems Operational.
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No user-reported issues in the past 1 hours, and the official status page shows: All Systems Operational.
First, confirm whether it's a widespread problem: check the official status and user reports on this page. If it's only you, try switching networks, clearing your browser cache, or using a different browser. When accessing overseas services from mainland China, the network route is the most common cause; use cdnping's IP check to see your exit and split routing.
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Official status: All Systems Operational
API probe: last reachable · Details
User reports: 0 in 1 hours / usually 0.0 per hour
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