Possible Outage Resolved

ChatGPT possible outage on Jul 18, 2026 — 5 hours 10 minutes incident report

ChatGPT appeared to experience a possible outage for 5 hours 10 minutes on Jul 18, 2026.

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ServiceChatGPT
StartedJul 18, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
ResolvedJul 18, 2026 at 13:00 UTC
Total duration5 hours 10 minutes
Peak severityPossible Outage
DetectionOfficial OpenAI status feed

Timeline

  1. Possible issue detected
  2. Confirmed by re-check
  3. Severity changed: down → degraded
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  30. Service responding normally

What happened

On Jul 18, 2026, ChatGPT appeared to experience a possible outage lasting 5 hours 10 minutes, according to our automated monitoring. The incident was first detected by Are The Bots Down's monitoring system at Jul 18, 2026 at 07:50 UTC and our checks resumed normal results at Jul 18, 2026 at 13:00 UTC. OpenAI's public status feed reported the issue during this window. 32 status observations were recorded across the lifetime of this incident.

What to do when ChatGPT appears to be having issues

Most detected ChatGPT issues resolve within 15 minutes. While you wait, the API often stays available even when the consumer chat is having problems — check status.openai.com for the official picture, but expect that page to lag the actual incident by 20 to 40 minutes.

Most users find it faster to switch tools than to wait. The closest alternatives to ChatGPT for the same workflows are Claude or Gemini.

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