Access denied - Error 1020

me to can someone help us???
i have this issue on my all devices and browsers

Access denied

You do not have access to chat.openai.com.

The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site.

  • Ray ID: 7a13731d0a5b3674
  • Timestamp: 2023-03-01 18:26:40 UTC
  • Your IP address: ----------
  • Requested URL: chat.openai.com/chat
  • Error reference number: 1020
  • Server ID: FL_637F127
  • User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

I found this great article explaining and fixing the error Access denied Error code 1020 You do not have access to chat openai com The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site.. By following this error I was able to unstand and resolved the error

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Access denied

You do not have access to chat.openai.com.

The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site.

  • Ray ID: 7a27442eee309e5e
  • Timestamp: 2023-03-04 04:09:53 UTC
  • Your IP address:
  • Requested URL: chat.openai.com/chat
  • Error reference number: 1020
  • Server ID: FL_464F112
  • User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

I’ve set it up, but the problem is still not solved.

Yes, turning off the VPN before could solve this problem, but I just wanted to use ChatGpt when I couldn’t go directly to the website without opening the VPN.

can someone help me?

I USE clash,it works!thanks!

Issue got resolved after changing to a supported region in my VPN settings.

if your vpn are host by cloud or provided by some cloud company, it will cause this error. So maybe the solution is to change the vpn node until success…

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Hi, iam living on Russian, i got the same error, when i had this error i was using the computer with VPN, but i tryied to use my phone, on my phone iam using the Psiphon Vpn with other location, im located on USA, and it is working, but i dont fix the error on my computer,

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谁能帮我解决下?

Same Here :woman_facepalming:. Very appreciate if anyone could help :two_hearts: :two_hearts:

Access denied

You do not have access to chat.openai.com.

The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site.

Ray ID: 7aa5fa782f4d9e4a
Timestamp: 2023-03-19 13:14:25 UTC
Your IP address: 157.230.37.160
Requested URL: chat.openai.com/
Error reference number: 1020
Server ID: FL_410F369
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Yes, I am in a dilema, I am in China ,I have to use VPN to access openai ,and when I can use VPN, I can’t use chaGPT :sweat_smile:

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我也一样所有办法都试过but 不起作用 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

if you just want to use chatgpt answer questions ,you can use the playground instead.

vps server install CloudFlare WARP.

it’s work for me.

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I too was extremely frustrated by this issue and after long research I found that this error is mostly because of yhe country restrictions. During my research to the solution, I found a video on YouTube that proved to be helpful for getting out of this issue. It covers the same topic and provides step-by-step instructions on how to fix it. He explains a very quick method to fix the access denied error.

Here’s the link to the video: ChatGPT: Access Denied - You Don't Have Access To chat.openai.com | How To Fix Error - YouTube

I hope you find it helpful! Let me know if you have any other questions or if there’s anything else I can help with.

I think this issue can also occur based only on your ISP, even if your ISP is in the same country and doesn’t generally allow spam. There are certain US ISPs that allocate IP addresses differently than many services (e.g. YouTube) expect.

Ok, found a set of steps that can work. Here are the steps for Windows:

  1. Clear your browser cache for the site
  2. Open Command Prompt as administrator
  3. Run the following commands:

netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns

  1. Reboot the machine

Turn off the VPN and it will work fine.