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This page checks OpenAI's official status feed live when it loads, and again every 30 seconds. If the big answer reads NO, Codex is reporting problems; YES means all systems are operational.
Quick checks: load another website to rule out your connection, try Codex in an incognito window or on a different network, and clear your cache. If this page shows Codex as up but it still fails for you, the problem is likely local — your network, a browser extension, or your account.
Codex is OpenAI's coding agent (in the CLI, IDE extensions, and the cloud), while the OpenAI API and ChatGPT are separate components. They can fail independently — the API can be degraded while ChatGPT is fine, or vice versa. The service breakdown above shows each component separately.
Straight from OpenAI's official status page at status.openai.com — the same source OpenAI publishes. We don't run our own probes or guess, so what you see here matches the official report.
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Like any large online service, Codex is up the vast majority of the time but has the occasional incident — usually brief, and sometimes affecting only one component (a single surface, or just the API). We keep a running Codex outage history with the incident count for the last 30 and 90 days and how long each one lasted, straight from OpenAI's feed.
The Codex coding agent — CLI, IDE extension, and cloud — is tracked in the service breakdown above. It can be down even when ChatGPT and the OpenAI API are fine, so check that specific component. If this page shows Codex as operational but it still fails for you, the issue is likely local — your CLI version, network, or auth token.
The OpenAI API is shown as its own line in the service breakdown above, pulled live from OpenAI's official status feed. The API can be degraded independently of ChatGPT or the Codex agent, which is why developers often see Codex failures while ChatGPT works fine.