ChatGPT Plus and Pro conversations hit by elevated errors

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Published Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · 7:20 AM EDT

OpenAI reported elevated error rates affecting the Conversations component for ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers on September 22. Its status page classified the incident as degraded performance and said engineers were implementing a mitigation. The notice was posted at 9:58 a.m. UTC and remained in the investigating stage 12 minutes later, with no recovery or applied mitigation yet reported. OpenAI's aggregate status metrics do not measure the availability experienced by every subscription tier, model or feature.

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