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To tell right now if ChatGPT is down, check OpenAI's official status data, shown live below and refreshed every 60 seconds. If it shows an incident, the problem is on OpenAI's side. If it is clear, the issue is most likely your browser, network or account.
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Confirm it on OpenAI's status page. It lists every ChatGPT component, such as Conversations, Login and Voice mode, and shows any active incident at the top.
If an incident is posted, there is nothing to fix on your end. Clearing cookies or reinstalling the app will not fix a server-side outage.
If the status page is clear but ChatGPT fails everywhere, check again in 10 to 15 minutes. The status page can lag behind a new outage.
Save your prompt so you can paste it back in later, and use "Subscribe to updates" on the status page to get an alert when it is fixed.
If it turns out to be just you, follow our step by step guide to fixing ChatGPT when it is not working.
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Check Claude and Gemini in the live panel above before you switch, so you do not move to a tool that is also having problems.
If OpenAI's status page shows no incident, run through this checklist. It follows the fixes in OpenAI's Help Center.
Try a second device on a different connection. Open ChatGPT on your phone using cellular data. If it works there, the problem is your device or network.
Switch between the app and the browser. If only the web version fails, the browser is the cause. If both fail on one network, look at the network.
Test your browser. Hard refresh, then open an incognito window or another browser with extensions off. If ChatGPT loads there, your main browser profile is the cause.
Turn off your VPN, proxy or secure DNS. OpenAI lists these as common causes of "A network error occurred." and login problems.
Check your work network. Company firewalls and SSL inspection can block OpenAI's domains, so ask IT if ChatGPT only fails at the office.
Look for a usage limit. If text chat works but uploads, images or voice have stopped, you have probably hit a limit on that tool, not an outage.
The status panel at the top of this page checks each company's official status page every 60 seconds. For full detail, open status.openai.com, which lists every ChatGPT component and any active incident. If ChatGPT fails everywhere but the page is clear, check again in 10 to 15 minutes.
Either the problem is local to your browser, app or network, or the status page has not caught up yet. OpenAI's status page can trail the first wave of failures. Test on another device and network: if ChatGPT works there, use the checklist above.
OpenAI posts incident updates on its status page as it investigates, and publishes write-ups for some incidents that explain what happened and how long it lasted. Past incidents are listed under View history on status.openai.com.
The live panel shows Claude's status from Anthropic's official status page at status.claude.com. Google does not offer a public status feed we can read, so the Gemini card links to Google's official AI Studio status page instead.
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Status data from each company's official status page. AI Business Weekly is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.
Last updated: November 14, 2026.