Is OpenAI API down?
Live OpenAI API status from OpenAI: our own checks, the official status page and user reports.
How we know if OpenAI API is down
Every 1 minute LLM Live sends a real request to the OpenAI API and measures whether it answers, how long the first token takes and how fast text streams. Three failed checks in a row mark it as down. We also read OpenAI's official status page every minute. Every few minutes we pull OpenRouter's success rate for the newest models served by OpenAI's own API; when most of them start failing, the status changes. Spikes in user reports on this page raise a warning even before the provider confirms an incident.
OpenAI API not working but status is green?
Problems are sometimes limited to one region, account or feature. Try a hard refresh, sign out and in, check your network or VPN, and press “OpenAI API isn't working for me” above — if many people do the same, the status changes here first.
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