[UPDATE] Global Cloudflare Outage Fixed; ChatGPT, Gemini, X & More Back Online

[UPDATE: Nov 18, 2025 – 14:42 UTC] Cloudflare has confirmed that “A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.” All the affected services should be up and running as of now.

[UPDATE: Nov 18, 2025 – 14:42 UTC] ChatGPT is now fully back online. You might still notice slow loading when pulling up older conversations, but a quick refresh and re-login should fix things for most users.

[UPDATE: Nov 18, 2025 – 14:34 UTC] Cloudflare says it has pushed out a change that brought the dashboard back. However, the company is “still working to remediate broad application services impact.” For now, X, Gemini, and Perplexity appear stable. ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, however, continue to show the same errors many users reported earlier.

[ORIGINAL STORY] If you tried opening ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or even X earlier this morning and kept running into weird errors, you should know that a massive Cloudflare outage has knocked several major services either partially or completely offline, affecting millions around the world. The issue isn’t limited to AI tools; platforms from social media to payments and even gaming servers are struggling.

Cloudflare’s status page confirmed widespread internal server errors (500s), along with failures on the Cloudflare Dashboard and API. ChatGPT users are spotting messages like “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed” or simply being blocked from loading conversations. Copilot wasn’t responding either during testing — although it briefly flickered back to life before going down again.

Gemini is also throwing a generic “Something went wrong” message with no additional info. And over on X (formerly Twitter), timelines, trends, and other sections are either refusing to load or timing out completely.

What’s down right now?

So far, these platforms have been hit by Cloudflare’s global outage:

• X (Twitter)
• Spotify
• OpenAI (ChatGPT)
• Perplexity
• Letterboxd
• Sage
• PayPal
• League of Legends
• Archive of Our Own
• Genshin Impact
• Honkai: Star Rail
• Amazon Web Services
• Canva

Cloudflare shares more details

In its 13:04 UTC update, Cloudflare revealed it had temporarily disabled WARP access in London while working on fixes. The company says WARP and Cloudflare Access have now recovered and should be operating normally again.

At 13:58 UTC, Cloudflare confirmed ongoing work to restore services for customers still affected. And at 14:22 UTC, the company noted it continues to roll out fixes to stabilize application services across regions.

If any of these services have come back online on your end, let us know. As of now, recovery is still in progress, and platforms may come online at different times depending on the region.