OpenAI Resolves GPT-5 Service Outage on Aug. 8
Company restored chat services within hours after elevated error rates disrupted model access early Aug. 8, 2025.
Timeline of the incident
OpenAI’s status page shows a partial outage affecting GPT-5 conversations early on Aug. 8, 2025. The company reported elevated error rates, applied mitigation steps, and marked the issue resolved by 5:44 a.m. Eastern.
Impact on user operations
Temporary disruptions affected integrated tools and agentic platforms dependent on GPT-5 endpoints. Users may have experienced slower response times or fallback to earlier model versions. Enterprise teams monitoring uptime likely logged the event for resilience planning.
Company response and resolution
“We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery,” OpenAI wrote during the …
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