Is Whisper down right now?
HTTP endpoint monitoring - checked every 5 minutes · How we classify outages
Whisper is currently operational - but official reports minor issues - 250ms HTTP response. Last checked . 90-day uptime: 99.6%.
Login issues for FedRAMP users who recently logged out
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90-day uptime
99.6%
20 incidents (90d)
Response now
250ms
HTTP p50 (7d)
362ms
median ping response
HTTP p95 (7d)
1200ms
tail ping response
Response time (7 days)
p50 362ms·p95 1200msⓘ HTTP response times from Tickerr's monitoring server to Whisper's status or homepage endpoint - not API inference latency or time-to-first-token (TTFT). For API benchmark data, see third-party sources like Artificial Analysis.
90-day uptime comparison
Independent monitoring catches issues faster - official pages sometimes lag by hours before acknowledging problems.
Service components
via status.openai.com ↗Incident history
Identified - Users unable to access chat support on help center
Investigating - Login issues for FedRAMP users who recently logged out
Investigating - Increase in users hitting Codex rate limits
Identified - Elevated latency and error rates for ChatGPT 5.5 Thinking
Identified - Elevated error rates on ChatGPT paid plans
Identified - API users may see increased error rates for GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5
Investigating - GPT5.5 Performance Degradation
Identified - Codex Cloud and Code Review experiencing high failure rate
Investigating - Issues accessing ChatGPT for logged-out users
Investigating - Codex 5.5 engines are experiencing high error rate
Investigating - Realtime API - SIP/WebRTC flow are down
Investigating - Elevated error rates with GPT 5.5
Investigating - Users may experience elevated errors in ChatGPT uploading files and Codex Cloud creating tasks
Monitoring - Elevated errors for Responses API
Investigating - Degraded Performance with Codex Cloud Tasks
Investigating - Increased Error Rate for gpt-5.5 model in the API
Identified - Elevated transcription failures affecting ChatGPT & Codex
Monitoring - Increased error rate with image generation in the API
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About Whisper status
This page tracks the live operational status of Whisper by OpenAI. We check Whisper every 5 minutes and record the result. If Whisper is down or experiencing an outage, it will be reflected here within minutes. Historical uptime data covers the last 90 days.
You can also check the official Whisper status page.