# GPT-4o mini extremely slow today via API

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4o-mini-extremely-slow-today-via-api/1375490>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [March 2, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4o-mini-extremely-slow-today-via-api/1375490 "2026-03-02T12:53:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![secretariat2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@secretariat2](https://community.openai.com/u/secretariat2)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4o-mini-extremely-slow-today-via-api/1375490/1 "2026-03-02T12:53:30Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been using GPT-4o mini via API calls in production for about a year without any major issues.

However, today I’m experiencing extremely slow response times. Requests that normally complete in a few seconds are now taking significantly longer, sometimes timing out.

Nothing has changed on my side:

- Same infrastructure

- Same request structure

- Same model (gpt-4o-mini)

- Similar token usage

Is anyone else experiencing similar latency issues today?

Are there any known incidents, rate limit changes, or performance degradations affecting GPT-4o mini?

I would appreciate any feedback or confirmation.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![kailashprj2209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@kailashprj2209](https://community.openai.com/u/kailashprj2209)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4o-mini-extremely-slow-today-via-api/1375490/2 "2026-03-02T13:21:58Z")

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Yes, today it is slow. I am also facing the same issue."

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**Author:** ![VeitB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/veitb/32/712987_2.png) [@VeitB](https://community.openai.com/u/VeitB)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4o-mini-extremely-slow-today-via-api/1375490/3 "2026-03-02T14:03:45Z")

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Hi and welcome back!

I just ran a few tests and saw response times of roughly 300 to 600 ms for gpt-4o-mini with both the Responses API and chat.completions.

Please let us know if you are still experiencing the issue. If so, sharing a few request IDs would help the team investigate more efficiently.

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**Author:** ![kailashprj2209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@kailashprj2209](https://community.openai.com/u/kailashprj2209)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2026, 4:56am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4o-mini-extremely-slow-today-via-api/1375490/4 "2026-03-03T04:56:22Z")

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I have tested it, and it’s working fine.

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**Author:** ![VeitB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/veitb/32/712987_2.png) [@VeitB](https://community.openai.com/u/VeitB)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4o-mini-extremely-slow-today-via-api/1375490/5 "2026-03-07T20:01:07Z")

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A post was merged into an existing topic: [TTS API very slow today, even timing out](https://community.openai.com/t/tts-api-very-slow-today-even-timing-out/1375970/2)

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**Author:** ![VeitB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/veitb/32/712987_2.png) [@VeitB](https://community.openai.com/u/VeitB)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4o-mini-extremely-slow-today-via-api/1375490/6 "2026-03-07T20:01:11Z")

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