Read the error type, not just the status code. Both vendors use 429 for conditions that waiting cannot fix, such as OpenAI's credit_balance_exhausted and Anthropic's tier spend cap. OpenAI's pages…
Short answer. We found no OpenAI Help Center page that documents either message. None of the six ChatGPT help pages we read contains "Conversation not found" or "Error in message…
Anthropic's Claude Code error reference puts each message on one side. A 5xx such as API Error: 500 is not caused by your prompt, settings or account, and Claude Code…
Published October 12, 2026. Sources are listed beside the claims they support, with the dates we checked them. The short answer: use an AI chatbot as a tutor for explanations,…
Short answer: Three different problems get called "Codex not working." A usage limit means your plan's allowance is spent, and OpenAI documents it. The capacity message appears in no OpenAI…
Claude's "Overloaded" error, HTTP status 529 with the type overloaded_error, means Anthropic's service is at capacity across all users. Anthropic's API and Help Center pages call it temporary, and Claude…
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:…
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 what each title names…
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 figure for…
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 incidents it…