Updated 8:30 p.m. Eastern on September 15, 2026
OpenAI says elevated error rates affected image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare in the API. The incident is resolved, with all impacted services fully recovered.
What is affected
The affected scope was image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare in the API.
Official update timeline
We are experiencing elevated error rates for image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare in the API. Our team is working to mitigate the issue. We will provide another update as more information becomes available.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
