On Wednesday, August 20, 2025, the question “Is ChatGPT down in India?” surged across the internet. The answer is yes: the AI service experienced an outage starting around 12 PM that day. As per the Downdetector data, Over the last 24 hours, OpenAI had some interruptions in its service. Most of the time, very few users reported problems, close to zero. There were two times when more people reported issues. The first was around 9:00 PM on 19th August, with about 80 reports, which was a small and brief problem. The second was around 12:00 PM on 20th August, with nearly 483 reports, which was the biggest problem of the day. Afternoon, the number of reports went down but stayed a bit higher than normal, showing some lingering issues. Overall, the service worked fine most of the time except during these two spikes.
According to Downdetector, most problems are with ChatGPT, making up 54% of all complaints. About 43% of issues are with the OpenAI website, and only 3% are from the mobile app. The outage map shows that these problems are happening in many different parts of India, not just one area.
OpenAI’s response
OpenAI has acknowledged the disruption on its official status page. “We are facing issues, with users encountering increased errors for affected services.” The company noted it was diligently working on a solution to address the problem. At the time of the report, the elevated error rate had persisted for seven minutes. The issue disrupted multiple users trying to access ChatGPT, leading to temporary interruptions in the chatbot service.
ChatGPT: Is It Back Online?
Yes, ChatGPT is back online, offering the same services as before.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a chatbot made by OpenAI. It uses advanced AI to understand and write text like a human. It can answer questions, explain things, help with writing, and have conversations on many topics. People use ChatGPT for learning, creating content, customer support, and chatting for fun. It works on both web and mobile devices and gets better as OpenAI updates it.
