Trying to figure out what’s going on here… I’ve been using o1 in the API at medium reasoning and it’s been acceptable speed-wise. I’m now dropping in o3-mini to test it out and when accessed via the API it’s so slow it’s unusable (network timeout slow). The same conversation in the Playground seems…

Well, I may have spoken too soon and this was just a temporary glitch because things seem more or less back to where I’d expect them at this point. Good times!

Phew! Let us know if you run into it again.

I have the same issue. Assistant via API or playground response is very slow or even fails “The server had an error processing your request. Sorry about that! You can retry your request, or contact us through our help center”. My current model 4o-mini works without any problems. Could you please c…

[image] O3-mini-high performance degradation (feb 5th) [possibily requires oai staff attention] ChatGPT @vb @Foxalabs maybe keep this one for today’s issue? another user also reported issues on playground and the api edit: now o3-mini-high is stuck for over 10 minutes ov…

I was able to reproduce the issue in the playground using the Assistants API with o3-mini low and send a message to OpenAI. Hope this helps!

Hey team, thanks for flagging this. The team is currently aware of the latency issues with Assistants API for o3-mini and we’re currently investigating it. We’ll update back once its resolved!

Hi Gokulraya, We are seeing 2% (random) of queries to o3-mini completions API taking incredibly long. Other times it is very fast.

O3-mini Completion API Access Incredibly Slow?

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