{"slug": "ask-hn-is-openai-down-nonstop-429s-on-pro-subscription", "title": "Ask HN: Is OpenAI down? Nonstop 429s on pro subscription", "summary": "Hacker News user srcreigh posted an Ask HN thread reporting that OpenAI's service has produced repeated HTTP 429 rate-limit errors on a paid Pro subscription over the past few days, causing agent sessions to fail during several periods. The post, submitted 36 minutes before the page was captured, had drawn 1 point and 1 comment at the time, and no OpenAI response or official outage confirmation is included in the source.", "body_md": "| [Consider applying for YC's Winter 2027 batch! __Applications__ are open till November 2.](https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/)[Guidelines](newsguidelines.html) \\|[FAQ](newsfaq.html) \\|[Lists](lists) \\|[API](https://github.com/HackerNews/API) \\|[Security](security.html) \\|[Legal](https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/) \\|[Apply to YC](https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/) \\|[Contact](mailto:hn@ycombinator.com) | \n\n|  | **[Hacker News](news)**[new](newest) \\|[past](front) \\|[comments](newcomments) \\|[ask](ask) \\|[show](show) \\|[jobs](jobs) \\|[submit](submit) | [login](login?goto=item%3Fid%3D50190282) | \n\n|  |  | [Ask HN: Is OpenAI down? Nonstop 429s on pro subscription](item?id=50190282) | \n|  |  | 1 point by [srcreigh](user?id=srcreigh)[36 minutes ago](item?id=50190282) \\|[hide](hide?id=50190282&goto=item%3Fid%3D50190282) \\|[past](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Ask%20HN%3A%20Is%20OpenAI%20down%3F%20Nonstop%20429s%20on%20pro%20subscription&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0) \\|[favorite](fave?id=50190282) \\|[1 comment](item?id=50190282) | \n|  |  | The past few days I’ve had several periods where agent sessions constantly fail with 429s. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-openai-down-nonstop-429s-on-pro-subscription", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50190282", "published_at": "2026-10-22 02:05:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-22 02:42:32.014754+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-products"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Hacker News", "srcreigh"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-openai-down-nonstop-429s-on-pro-subscription", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-openai-down-nonstop-429s-on-pro-subscription.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-openai-down-nonstop-429s-on-pro-subscription.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-openai-down-nonstop-429s-on-pro-subscription.jsonld"}}