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ChatGPT or Claude Not Working? A Five-Step Check Based on What Their Status Pages Record
When ChatGPT or Claude is not working, check the status page for the product you use (status.openai.com, status.claude.com) before changing anything. Incidents often stay open an hour or more (medians:…
Claude Status Page History, July to October 2026: We Sorted All 50 Incidents by Model and Product
Anthropic's status page listed 50 incidents between 27 July and 7 October 2026, and they were not all the same kind of problem. Sorting them by…
ChatGPT vs Claude Uptime: We Rebuilt Both Status Pages' Uptime Numbers From Their Incident Records
OpenAI and Anthropic both publish uptime percentages on their status pages, and they publish them differently: OpenAI shows one figure per component for a 90-day window plus a…
Is OpenAI's Status Page Accurate? We Compared 15 Incidents With OpenAI's Own Write-Ups
A status page is only useful if its times roughly match what users experienced, and OpenAI gives us a way to check one half of that. For 15…
The State of AI Reliability, July to October 2026: We Measured 111 ChatGPT and Codex Incidents (and What Claude's Status Page Shows Separately)
Between 10 July and 8 October 2026, OpenAI's status feed recorded 111 incidents, and most were labelled degraded performance or left unlabelled, not outage. In OpenAI's own labels,…
OpenAI's 29 September Outage: The Write-Up Blames a Feature Rollout and Dates the Mitigation About 100 Minutes Before the Status Page
OpenAI's write-up for its 29 September 2026 outage says a feature rollout caused routine settings requests to trigger repeated background checks, which opened connections across internal services until…
What OpenAI's 14 Recent Outage Write-Ups Say Caused ChatGPT and Codex Incidents (and What Anthropic Publishes)
When ChatGPT or Codex fails, incident titles are usually a variant of "elevated errors". For 15 of the 106 incidents on OpenAI's page since July, the company went…