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.
Model API status / OpenAI
The official API endpoint for GPT models. Both Responses and Chat Completions are served from api.openai.com.
Probed from Cloudflare edge DFW · updated 1 min ago (10/17 19:45)
Measured in mainland China
| API | All | China Unicom | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API11 samples | 300 ms成功 9% | 300 ms成功 11% | Insufficient samples |
Values are the median round-trip time over a reused connection. “Success” is the share of requests that received a response within 6 seconds.
Official incidents
FAQ
As of 10/17 19:45, api.openai.com is reachable from Cloudflare edge nodes with a response time of 76 ms. Over the past 24 hours, reachability was 100% and median latency was 76 ms. The official status page currently shows: All Systems Operational.
过去 7 天中国大陆访客共测得 11 个样本,请求成功率 9%,连接复用后往返中位数 300 ms,首次连接中位数 765 ms。
Every 5 minutes, we send a request without an API key from Cloudflare edge nodes to https://api.openai.com/v1/models. Any status code below 5xx, such as 401, counts as reachable. We record the time from sending the request to receiving the response headers. See the methodology page for details.
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