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Image generation outage expands to Images component — ModelPriceLab

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Image generation outage expands to Images component

OpenAI's ChatGPT app incident escalated: status reverted from Monitoring to Investigating, with Images component now also partially affected. Users may experience broader image generation failures.

Jul 21, 2026Views:0

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Reliability4

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Quality3

Compliance0

Partial outage affecting both Image Generation and Images components; recovery not yet confirmed.

Changes

Before

<![CDATA[Image generation unavailable for some ChatGPT users]]> | https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KY23YCPJ9M5BFFT6ZHKQE9MP | <![CDATA[<b>Status: Monitoring</b><br/><br/>We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.<br/><br/><b>Affected components</b>
<li>Image Generation (Degraded performance)</li>

After

<![CDATA[Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT]]> | https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KY23YCPJ9M5BFFT6ZHKQE9MP | <![CDATA[<b>Status: Investigating</b><br/><br/>We are investigating the issue for the listed services.<br/><br/><b>Affected components</b>
<li>Image Generation (Partial outage)</li>
<li>Images (Partial outage)</li>

Sources

status

OpenAI Status History

<![CDATA[Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT]]> | https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KY23YCPJ9M5BFFT6ZHKQE9MP | <![CDATA[<b>Status: Investigating</b><br/><br/>We are investigating the issue...

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