OpenAI Whisper status: API, auth, latency & outage reports

OpenAI Whisper is operational right now. DownForAI checks OpenAI Whisper every ~75 minutes across 1 monitored surface, with 0 community reports in the last 24 hours.

Operational

Last probe < 2 min ago·1 surface

Likely your sideMEDIUM confidence

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100.0%

24h Uptime

646ms

p50 Latency

906ms

p95 Latency

Incidents (30d)

Current Status

✅

Operational

Everything works normally

✓Checked by our probes · 728ms

Verified 1m ago

✓No major incident reported

ⓘNo reports in the last 24h

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0reports in the last 24 hours

Surface Health

Whisper APIOperational

HTTP 200p50 646ms1m ago

Uptime — last 24h

100.0%

Latency — last 20 probes

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Is OpenAI Whisper down for everyone?

Likely local or client-side issue

Our probes see normal responses. The issue is likely on your end or in your network path.

Moderate confidence

Probe summary (1 surface)

All surfaces operational as of last probe.

Signals detected

All monitored surfaces operational
No recent user reports
Check your network, credentials, or rate limits

Incident history (30d)

✓No incidents recorded in the past 30 days.

Reported symptoms

No user reports for OpenAI Whisper in the last 24 hours.

Known error signatures

Common failure patterns and how to diagnose them

Provider details

OpenAI's speech-to-text model. Available via OpenAI API, as open-weight model, and on third-party hosts (Groq, etc.).

What we monitor

api.openai.com Audio endpoint — Whisper and successors

Operator notes

Whisper is open-weight — self-hosted via whisper.cpp or faster-whisper is a production-grade fallback. Groq hosts Whisper with very low latency and a free tier.

Fallback alternatives

What to use if this service is down

OpenAI Whisper API is degraded

AssemblyAI, Deepgram, Groq (Whisper-large-v3, fast + free tier), or local Whisper can reduce downtime for STT

Local = high setup cost

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How we monitor

downforai.com probes each AI service every 2–5 minutes from multiple independent locations. We measure HTTP response codes, latency (p50 & p95), and endpoint availability across the surfaces listed above. Status is classified as Operational, Degraded, or Outage based on a weighted combination of probe results. Uptime is calculated over 30-minute buckets and the last 24 hours. User reports are factored into our diagnosis as a secondary signal. We are independent of all providers listed and receive no compensation to report any particular status.

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