Users are experiencing elevated errors when selecting models

lowOpenAIJul 9, 2026 19:45

apicapacity

Capacity IssueAPI Issue

Summary

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Impact

none

Timeline

Jul 9, 2026 19:44

[investigating] We are investigating an issue causing users to receive “Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.” errors across multiple models. We are working to identify the cause and restore normal service.

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Jul 9, 2026 20:42

[resolved] All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Lessons Learned

⚠OpenAI has experienced 111 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api, capacity have occurred 770 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Capacity Issue, API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.