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Is OpenAI API down

Is OpenAI API Down? Status and Error Checks

Honest boundary: llmping does not ping user API keys and does not claim fake real-time provider status. Use this page to separate outage symptoms from key, quota, permission, and runtime failures.

What this page can check

Check whether an OpenAI API problem looks like an outage, an invalid key, a forbidden model, or a rate limit issue.

Official provider status page: https://status.openai.com/

Historical public endpoint uptime

llmping samples provider public endpoints and official status feeds every 5 minutes through a Cloudflare Worker. These percentages never use user API keys and should be read as public reachability evidence, not a guarantee for every authenticated workload. The latest check time appears with the data; if it is more than 15 minutes old, treat the panel as historical rather than current.

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Immediate checks

  1. 401 means your key is missing or invalid; it does not prove OpenAI is down.
  2. 403 means your key is recognized but forbidden for the requested action or model.
  3. 429 means rate limit or quota pressure; check whether the body says quota or RPM/TPM.
  4. 5xx across multiple keys and regions is stronger outage evidence.

cURL test command

curl -i https://api.openai.com/v1/models \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

Run this from your own terminal or server. A status code is only useful after you know whether auth, quota, or endpoint selection is correct.

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