OpenAI incident
Elevated Errors Affecting ChatGPT Free and Guest Plan Users
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Resolved after 2 hours 22 minutes, affecting Conversations, on March 17, 2026.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
Affected components
Conversations
Update timeline
- identified Mar 17, 2026, 02:58 AM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors on the ChatGPT free and guest plans. We are currently implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Mar 17, 2026, 03:55 AM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Mar 17, 2026, 05:20 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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