# "Thinking failed" in ChatGPT Pro 6 Astra on ChatGPT **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugs\ **Tags:** chatgpt\ **Created:** [September 24, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/thinking-failed-in-chatgpt-pro-6-astra-on-chatgpt/1400485 "2026-09-24T18:45:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![parrotcarrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb9ed0/32.png) [@parrotcarrot](https://community.openai.com/u/parrotcarrot)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/thinking-failed-in-chatgpt-pro-6-astra-on-chatgpt/1400485/1 "2026-09-24T18:45:35Z")
## Environment - Surface: Web / iOS / macOS - Affected feature and model, if relevant: GPT 6 Pro ## Bug Repeatedly, a request for GPT 6 Pro leads to ‘Thinking failed’ errors. In fact, this happens on more than 50% of my queries, and leads to hours of wasted effort. This is extremely frustrating. Has been happening for months. ## Screenshots ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/8/5/6/85688b9837c892a9aebe9c095b2e521a71fe31b1.png) ---
**Author:** ![maddoxdean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@maddoxdean](https://community.openai.com/u/maddoxdean)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/thinking-failed-in-chatgpt-pro-6-astra-on-chatgpt/1400485/2 "2026-09-24T19:12:45Z")
This has been happening for me recently as well. Almost every prompt I send fails. ---
**Author:** ![lorkesno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@lorkesno](https://community.openai.com/u/lorkesno)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/thinking-failed-in-chatgpt-pro-6-astra-on-chatgpt/1400485/3 "2026-09-24T19:18:17Z")
My last day to use up my 200 pro 6 messages, and everything is failing. Money back please ---
**Author:** ![parrotcarrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb9ed0/32.png) [@parrotcarrot](https://community.openai.com/u/parrotcarrot)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/thinking-failed-in-chatgpt-pro-6-astra-on-chatgpt/1400485/4 "2026-09-24T20:02:38Z")
you can’t use 200 messages if they keep rate limiting you for even the ones that fail LOL what a great way to save on compute! @OpenAI_Support ! ---
**Author:** ![krasnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@krasnik](https://community.openai.com/u/krasnik)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 6:08am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/thinking-failed-in-chatgpt-pro-6-astra-on-chatgpt/1400485/5 "2026-09-25T06:08:23Z")
There is now an official status incident that overlaps part of this thread, which gives us a useful timing boundary. OpenAI Status recorded **“Elevated Error Rates on GPT-6 Astra Pro”** on September 24: - identified: about **18:59** - monitoring after mitigation: about **19:32** - resolved: about **19:46** That overlaps the evening reports here around 19:12 and 19:18, so those failures should be treated as incident-confounded rather than clean evidence of some separate account-specific cause. But it does **not** explain the whole report, because the original post says the “Thinking failed” problem has been happening for months and on more than half of queries. So I would split the evidence into three windows: 1. **before the official Sep-24 incident** ; 2. **during 18:59–19:46** ; 3. **after the status page says the incident was resolved**. The most useful next evidence is not another large batch of attempts. It is one naturally occurring post-resolution failure with: - exact local timestamp/timezone; - selected model/mode; - surface (Web/iOS/macOS); - exact “Thinking failed” text or screenshot; - whether the failed request still consumed one of the Pro-message allowances. If failures continue after the official recovery window, that separates the chronic issue from the known Sep-24 outage. And I would keep “Thinking failed”, rate-limit accounting, and model-routing/substitution as separate questions unless native evidence actually ties them together. ---
**Author:** ![parrotcarrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb9ed0/32.png) [@parrotcarrot](https://community.openai.com/u/parrotcarrot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2026, 12:33am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/thinking-failed-in-chatgpt-pro-6-astra-on-chatgpt/1400485/6 "2026-09-26T00:33:09Z")
This issue is persistent - it existed before, and continues to exist after that incident. Here’s a screenshot of a conversation I just had with GPT 6 Pro. Why do I have to ask it to continue over and over again? It’s extremely frustrating. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/f/e/c/fec8cbd0b9bb45c84f7a3c8e54270c7e180e7864.png)