I have been using the gpt-image-2 Batch API for image edits for about 3 months without issues. Today, the same workflow suddenly started failing with a 401 error: “Unable to authorize file access” My workflow is: Upload an image file and get an image file ID. Create an image edit batch JSONL req…

seconding this issue on the Sora batch endpoint as well

You wanted to use previously uploaded images as reference for the video generation and then the API returned the 401 error message?

No, this was with a new batch video gen request with fresh image uploads

I cannot believe this is still not fixed! Do you not have other non-forum-browsing customers using this functionality, that are seeing the same issues? You have numerous reports on this; we’re a day later and still the same 401 errors when referencing file uploads.

If you have high blood pressure, you may want to consider blood pressure medication. I have to take it myself when I get impatient with impatient people.

I have plenty of patience, but the service I pay for is down - the status page is all green and there’s no official words on it being an issue, so everyones services are breaking - this also happened on the 16th this month, albeit it recovered on its own. It was down likely 15+ times during 2025 as …

There are no paid OpenAI Dev employees on this forum. We are volunteers that spend time trying to help folks. @VeitB already asked the dev team to take a look. Nothing more can be done. Your impatience does nothing to expedite the solution.

Hi everyone, I was processing scanned book pages using the Batch API with gpt-image-2 and /v1/images/edits. Initially, my Batch workflow was working perfectly. I successfully processed around 150 pages using uploaded image files and file_id. Then, without making any changes to my script or JSONL …

Same issue here, also starting on 2026-08-19 — “Unable to authorize file access” We’re seeing the exact same error in the Batch API, and it started on the same date (2026-08-19). Our workflow had been running fine for months with no code changes. Setup: We upload attachments via /v1/files with p…

thanks, I was able to resolve this by adding a toggle to be able to switch to the base64 version while this issue persists

Batch images edits failing with 401 Unable to authorize file access

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Batch images edits failing with 401 Unable to authorize file access

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