# Chat GPT Image Models Down - 401 errors
**URL:** https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681
**Category:** Bugs
**Tags:** image-generation
**Created:** [June 4, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681 "2026-06-04T19:13:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@hope12](https://community.openai.com/u/hope12)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681/1 "2026-06-04T19:13:03Z")
Getting 401 error using replicate, open-ai api, and developer images playground.
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### Author:  [@LarisaHaster](https://community.openai.com/u/LarisaHaster)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2026, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681/2 "2026-06-04T19:24:37Z")
Welcome to the community!
I just got an email about it from OpenAI status page:
> **[Image API requests failing with 401s - OpenAI Status](https://status.openai.com/incidents/mhr31gvv)**
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> We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.
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> We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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### Author:  [@jeffvpace](https://community.openai.com/u/jeffvpace)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681/3 "2026-06-04T19:59:24Z")
Thought I was going crazy
🫪 🫪
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### Author:  [@LarisaHaster](https://community.openai.com/u/LarisaHaster)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2026, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681/4 "2026-06-04T20:12:21Z")
**Update** : It is now resolved and operational again.
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### Author:  [@jeffvpace](https://community.openai.com/u/jeffvpace)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681/5 "2026-06-04T20:24:46Z")
Now getting 401s on gpt-5.5
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### Author:  [@LarisaHaster](https://community.openai.com/u/LarisaHaster)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2026, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681/6 "2026-06-04T20:27:28Z")
I just tried gpt-5.5 and couldn’t reproduce the error​🤔 maybe temporarily glitch?
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### Author:  [@jeffvpace](https://community.openai.com/u/jeffvpace)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2026, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681/7 "2026-06-04T20:57:59Z")
Narrowed down to 401s with API for document and image analysis - other stuff works ok. Maybe they are in the process of bumping it to 5.6 …
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### Author:  [@OpenAI\_Support](https://community.openai.com/u/OpenAI_Support)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2026, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681/8 "2026-06-08T22:35:24Z")
Hey @jeffvpace Just checking in - are you still experiencing issue with 401 errors when using the API?
~ Smith
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### Author:  [@jeffvpace](https://community.openai.com/u/jeffvpace)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681/9 "2026-06-09T00:03:05Z")
Thank you. No more 401s. Actually there were two issues: one with the Image API that OAI fixed; and 400s with gpt-5.5 that I fixed in my code.
Sorry for my confusion.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.openai.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-image-models-down-401-errors/1382681/10 "2026-06-12T00:03:55Z")
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