Global ChatGPT Outage Hits Millions on June 10, 2025

OpenAI’s ChatGPT experienced a global service outage on June 10, 2025, that affected users across the U.S., U.K., India, Australia, and Europe. The disruption began around 2:45 AM ET (12:15 PM IST) and quickly escalated, with over 1,820 complaints logged on DownDetector by 11:12 AM ET.

🔍 What's Affected?

Users reported multiple issues, including:

  • ❌ “Too many concurrent requests”

  • 🔁 “Network error”

  • 🔒 “Error in message stream”

According to data, 82–93% of reports were related to ChatGPT’s core functionality, with another 6–14% involving the mobile app, and 1–4% related to API services.

⚠️ Impact

The outage significantly disrupted:

  • 👩‍💻 Developers, writers, students, and content creators

  • 🧑‍🏫 Educational institutions and researchers

  • 🏦 Fortune 500 companies (92% of which reportedly use ChatGPT)

  • 🤖 Automated tasks using OpenAI’s API and Sora (its video generation tool)

Many users voiced frustrations on X (formerly Twitter), sharing how the outage affected their:

  • Daily workflows

  • Study and exam prep

  • Therapy sessions

  • Even dating app conversations

Some users were able to intermittently access lightweight models like o3 and 4o-mini, while others faced complete lockout.

🛠️ OpenAI's Response

OpenAI acknowledged the issue, citing:

“Elevated error rates and latency across ChatGPT, API, and Sora.”

They’ve identified the root cause and are working on a resolution. As of now:

  • ✅ API services are recovering

  • ⏳ Full restoration of ChatGPT and Sora may take several hours

  • 🕵️ No estimated time of full recovery has been provided

💸 Economic & Operational Fallout

Though exact financial loss figures are unavailable, the scale of disruption suggests a significant economic impact, especially when:

  • Businesses pay up to $200/month for ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscriptions

  • Developers relying on OpenAI’s API for automation or content generation faced downtime

  • OpenAI already projects a $5B operational loss in 2024 against $3.7B in revenue, making recurring outages more critical to manage

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