Recovery: OpenAI – Elevated Error Rate for gpt-image-2.5-flare
OpenAI: Elevated error rate for gpt-image-2.5-flare. The current incident status is service recovery.

The incident has been confirmed by the operator’s official status page.
“We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.”
Status: RECOVERY Last checked: 16. 09. 2026 02:00
What we know
Elevated error rate for gpt-image-2.5-flare
Incident timeline
16. 09. 2026 01:55 – CONFIRMED
“We are seeing an elevated error rate in the API for image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare. Our team is working to mitigate the issue. We will provide another update when more information becomes available.”
16. 09. 2026 02:00 – RECOVERY
“We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.”
Sources
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