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#2 of 13

OpenAI

Level since 18 Oct, rising over 30 days (Direction ▲ 4.1). Latest driver: OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI.

Leads onUsage and adoption1stReliability1stRelease execution1stReception2nd
Lags onNo pillar in the bottom half of the field
Score78.8■ 0.0 since 18 Oct
Strength78.1Eight pillars
Direction▲ 4.1Last 30 days
Confidence high100% of its indicators measured and fresh

Score over time

Reconstructed70758024 Aug21 Sep19 Oct
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Reconstructed70758024 Aug21 Sep19 Oct
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57 daily closes, the earlier ones reconstructed. Download CSV

The eight pillars

Each pillar 0 to 100 on fixed goalposts, with its rank among the 13 ranked labs. The tick marks the median lab; points are what the pillar adds to Strength.

Capability204th84+16.8
Usage and adoption161st85+13.6
Release execution61st97+5.8
Value154th61+9.2
Ecosystem115th68+7.5
Reception42nd95+3.8
Reliability111st100+11.0
Trust, safety and privacy173rd62+10.5

Why OpenAI is #2

Most of its Strength comes from Capability and Usage and adoption. Points are contributions to the Score.

  • Behind Anthropic by 1.0 points. Biggest differences: Ecosystem −3.5, Value +2.6, Trust, safety and privacy −0.8; Direction +0.2.
  • Ahead of Google DeepMind by 3.2 points. Biggest differences: Usage and adoption +4.1, Trust, safety and privacy −1.4, Capability −1.1.

With every pillar weight moved up to 50% either way, it ranks 1 to 2 in 90% of recalculations; with equal weights, #2.

Since 18 Oct

Score down 0.0 (78.9 to 78.8). No pillar moved by 0.1 or more.

What was measuredAll 25 readings behind this close, with source, date and goalposts

Filled: no fresh reading, so the ranked labs' median was used. Carried: a source that keeps no history, read later.

IndicatorReadingScaledGoalpostsAs of
Arena text rating
Arena (arena.ai) text leaderboard: rating of the lab's best model with 1,000 votes or more
1485.1
gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh
781250 to 1550 rating13 Oct
Benchmarks
Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub: the lab's best score on each of GPQA Diamond, FrontierMath tiers 1 to 3, SWE-bench Verified and OTIS Mock AIME, each placed between fixed goalposts, averaged; runs from the last 365 days, at least 3 of the 4
89.4
GPQA diamond 95.8% (GPT-6 Astra (max)); FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private 93.7% (GPT-6.1 Sol (max)); SWE-Bench verified 80.6% (GPT-5.5 (xhigh)); OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 100.0% (GPT-6.1 Sol (max))
89already 0 to 10019 Oct
Paid adoption
Published spend and paid-use evidence, latest edition of each: Ramp AI Index (share of US businesses paying the vendor, monthly), Menlo Ventures (enterprise API spend share), a16z CIO survey (share of LLM wallet), ICONIQ (share of AI builders using the provider), each placed on its own scale and averaged by weight; facts and sources at /data/adoption.json
74.2
Ramp AI Index (2026-08): 39.76%; Menlo Ventures, State of Generative AI in the Enterprise (2025-12): 27%; a16z enterprise CIO survey (2026-01): 56%; ICONIQ, State of AI 2026: The Builder's Economy (2026-07): 71%
74already 0 to 10019 Oct
Assistant users
Users of the lab's assistants (chat apps and coding agents) as the lab or its parent last disclosed them, or a panel measurement (QuestMobile) where a lab discloses none; weekly figures count as monthly (a lower bound); dated by disclosure, and only disclosures from the last 12 months count; not applicable to a lab with no figure; facts and sources at /data/assistants.json
1000000000
ChatGPT, Codex and ChatGPT Work: more than one billion weekly active users and 2.5 million businesses (Sarah Friar, OpenAI CFO, 2026-09-08)
911 million to 2 billion monthly users19 Oct
Web traffic
Cloudflare Radar: the lab's best rank among the top 20 generative-AI services by traffic, 21 minus the rank
20
ChatGPT / OpenAI #1, OpenAI API #20 among generative-AI services
1000 to 20 rank points19 Oct
API spend share
OpenRouter rankings: the lab's share of all dollars spent on OpenRouter in the last 30 days, across every model (not token volume, which cheap bulk models dominate)
26.8919
26.9% of $104.4M spent on OpenRouter in 30 days (121 models)
880% to 35% of spend11 Oct
App charts
App Store top free charts in 7 countries
84.1
IN #2, BR #3, JP #3, DE #3, GB #3, US #3
840 to 100 chart points19 Oct
Coding agent downloads
npm and PyPI downloads of the lab's official coding agents (such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, Mistral Vibe), last 30 days; not applicable to a lab with none; standalone IDEs without public counts (such as Antigravity) are not seen
93017254
npm:@openai/codex 93017254
9910 thousand to 100 million a month19 Oct
Coding extension installs
VS Code Marketplace: installs of the lab's official coding extensions; not applicable to a lab with none
15667311
openai.chatgpt 15667311
81100 thousand to 50 million installs19 Oct
SDK downloads
PyPI and npm downloads of the official SDKs, last 30 days
471815429
pypi:openai 295856631; npm:openai 175958798
92100 thousand to 1 billion a month19 Oct
Open-model downloads
Hugging Face downloads of the lab's models, last 30 days
55698962
openai
7510 thousand to 1 billion a month19 Oct
Shipping cadence
Vikshy Wire: confirmed launches and updates of materiality 2 or more, last 90 days
57
57 confirmed launches and updates in 90 days
1000 to 30 in 90 days19 Oct
Biggest launch
Vikshy Wire: the biggest launch in the last 90 days, fading with age
4.6292materiality 0 to 519 Oct
Rating per dollar
Arena rating of the lab's best-value model, less 30 points for each doubling of its blended list price (3 parts input to 1 part output), with prices below $0.30 per million counted as $0.30
1494.7
gpt-6-luna-max: 1443 at $0.20/M blended
611250 to 1650 points13 Oct
Cloud availability
Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry: whether each offers the lab's current models as a managed, pay-per-use API (the flagship or the model one step behind it counts 1, an older generation only 0.5, open-weight side lines 0), dated by availability; facts and sources at /data/distribution.json
2
Amazon Bedrock: GPT-6 Astra (GA 8 Sep 2026), GPT-5.6, GPT-5.5; Microsoft Foundry: GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.x
670 to 3 platforms19 Oct
Open-weight hosts
OpenRouter: distinct providers serving the lab's open-weight models; not applicable to a lab that publishes none (a closed model's reach is its cloud availability)
23
Near AI, Venice, CoreWeave, DekaLLM, AkashML, DeepInfra, Crusoe, Mancer 2, Novita, DigitalOcean, Google, BaseTen
771 to 60 providers19 Oct
Developer interest
Hugging Face likes on the lab's models
32549
openai
611 thousand to 316 thousand likes19 Oct
Hacker News
Hacker News points on stories about the lab, last 30 days
12776
81 stories; top: ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector (764)
920 to 30,000 points19 Oct
Press and analysts
Vikshy Wire: press and analyst pieces on the lab's developments, last 30 days
1281000 to 60 pieces19 Oct
Official API uptime
The lab's own status page: 30-day uptime of the components that make up its model API, counting major outages in full and partial outages at 30%, the pages' own formula (degraded performance is not counted); labs label outages differently, so a measured cross-check sits beside it
100
status.openai.com, APIs: 100.000% over 30 days (0.0 h major, 0.0 h partial outage)
10099% to 100% over 30 days19 Oct
Measured uptime
OpenRouter: the median uptime of the lab's own API endpoints, an independent cross-check of the status page, the mean of daily readings over 30 days
99.9804
mean of 30 daily readings, 2026-09-20 to 2026-10-19
10090% to 100%19 Oct
Independent assessments
Independent assessments published by then, each put on 0 to 100: the Future of Life Institute AI Safety Index (40%), the Stanford Foundation Model Transparency Index (30%) and the SaferAI risk-management ratings (30%), averaged over those that cover the lab; a lab none covers is not independently assessed, and filled with the median like any gap
41.9
3 of 3 assessments: FLI AI Safety Index (2026-07) 2.28; Foundation Model Transparency Index (2025-12) 35; SaferAI Risk Management Tracker (2026-07) 34
420 to 10019 Oct
Customer data commitments
From the lab's own documentation: API and business data not used for training by default; a zero-data-retention option; a choice of data region
3
no training on API data by default, zero data retention available, choice of data region
1000 to 3 commitments19 Oct
Security certifications
From the lab's trust center: SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management) covering its model API
3
SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001
1000 to 3 certifications19 Oct
Security and privacy incidents
Security breaches, data leaks and regulatory privacy actions (bans, fines, orders) affecting the lab's AI services or caused by its AI systems in the last 12 months, from reputable reporting and regulators, counted once per public disclosure, and half when the lab itself disclosed harm from its AI with no legal duty to; every fact, and what was not counted and why, is at /data/trust.json
3.5
2025-11-26: Breach at analytics vendor Mixpanel exposed API users' names, emails, approximate location and organisation IDs; 2026-07-21: Pre-release models escaped an evaluation sandbox and breached Hugging Face and other organisations (disclosed by the lab: counts half); 2026-05-06: Canadian federa
00 to 3 in 12 months, fewer is better19 Oct

What moved Direction

The developments that count most in the last 30 days. Direction ▲ 4.1.

  1. +3.1OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI5 Oct · Frontier-class model launch
  2. +1.6OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra completes tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol28 Sep · New product or feature
  3. +1.0OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Sol and Luna models22 Sep · Frontier-class model launch
  4. −0.6OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites16 Oct · Security incident
  5. −0.6OpenAI engineer arrested over hidden recording device in office13 Oct · Security incident
  6. +0.6OpenAI introduces dots, a proactive assistant for ongoing tasks29 Sep · New product or feature
All 94 developments, line by line

Points for materiality, times recency, times diminishing returns (or the setback cap).

DevelopmentMaterialityPointsRecencyDiminish or capCounts
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra breaks long-unsolved Enigma message
21 Sep · Research
31.50.540.29+0.24
OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Sol and Luna models
22 Sep · Frontier-class model launch
540.560.45+1.02
OpenAI and Grab launch AI skills programme in Southeast Asia
23 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.560.06+0.03
ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan
23 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.560.06+0.03
OpenAI introduces MentalHealthBench for AI mental health responses
23 Sep · Research
20.750.570.06+0.03
OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
23 Sep · Security incident
31.50.580.45-0.39
OpenAI prepares $500 per month Pro Max plan for ChatGPT
24 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.590.07+0.03
OpenAI cites Proaction using Codex and GPT models
25 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.610.07+0.03
OpenAI investigates dozens of cases of agents acting improperly
26 Sep · Incident report
31.50.610.45-0.41
OpenAI resets Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limits
26 Sep · Usage limits raised
20.750.620.07+0.03
OpenAI apologizes for incidents involving Australian government sites
27 Sep · Security incident
31.50.640.45-0.43
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra completes tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol
28 Sep · New product or feature
540.650.63+1.63
OpenAI introduces dots, a proactive assistant for ongoing tasks
29 Sep · New product or feature
42.50.670.36+0.6
OpenAI expands ChatGPT plugins with app-like interfaces and automations
29 Sep · Product update
20.750.670.08+0.04
OpenAI disrupts coordinated model-distillation campaign
30 Sep · Security incident
31.50.690.45-0.46
OpenAI launches Decisions API for fast, cheap agent inference
30 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.690.08+0.04
OpenAI resets Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limits
2 Oct · Usage limits raised
20.750.730.08+0.05
OpenAI safety researcher David Robinson leaves, criticizes safety culture
3 Oct · Security incident
31.50.740.45-0.5
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI
5 Oct · Frontier-class model launch
540.771+3.08
OpenAI and Ironclad train AI agents on contracting workflows
6 Oct · Research
20.750.790.09+0.06
OpenAI publishes math results from internal frontier model
6 Oct · Research
20.750.790.09+0.05
OpenAI resets Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limits
7 Oct · Usage limits raised
20.750.80.1+0.06
OpenAI resets Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limits for all accounts
7 Oct · Usage limits raised
20.750.810.11+0.06
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims
8 Oct · Security incident
31.50.830.45-0.56
Asana cuts browser agent model costs 76x using GPT-6.1 Sol
9 Oct · Research
20.750.830.11+0.07
Mathematicians react to OpenAI's flood of math results
9 Oct · Research
20.750.840.12+0.08
OpenAI resets Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limits
11 Oct · Usage limits raised
20.750.870.13+0.09
OpenAI resets Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limits
13 Oct · Usage limits raised
20.750.90.16+0.11
OpenAI powers Higgsfield AI video tools with GPT-6 Astra
13 Oct · New product or feature
20.750.90.14+0.1
OpenAI engineer arrested over hidden recording device in office
13 Oct · Security incident
31.50.910.45-0.61
OpenAI and Sullivan & Cromwell launch Agreement Analyzer
15 Oct · New product or feature
20.750.930.19+0.13
OpenAI resets Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limits
15 Oct · Usage limits raised
20.750.930.17+0.12
OpenAI launches Rosalind Academic Plan for life sciences labs
15 Oct · New product or feature
20.750.940.22+0.15
OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
16 Oct · Security incident
31.50.960.45-0.64
OpenAI staff reset Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limits
17 Oct · Usage limits raised
20.750.980.25+0.18
OpenAI expands Academy with new learning paths
21 Sep · Product update · minor: counts zero
100
OpenAI calls for shared global AI standards
21 Sep · Policy or regulatory step · counts zero (kind or rule)
20.750
OpenAI forms advisory group on mathematics and AI
21 Sep · Policy or regulatory step · counts zero (kind or rule)
20.750
OpenAI sets out principles for third party AI safety assessments
22 Sep · Policy or regulatory step · counts zero (kind or rule)
20.750
OpenAI resolves error rate affecting Plus and Pro users
22 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
ChatGPT Work error rates elevated across paid plans
22 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
ChatGPT Plus and Pro error rates resolved after 41 minutes
23 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product division
23 Sep · Product update · minor: counts zero
100
Altman addresses UN Security Council on AI safety
23 Sep · Policy or regulatory step · counts zero (kind or rule)
20.750
OpenAI extends Daybreak cyber access to Ukraine government
23 Sep · Policy or regulatory step · counts zero (kind or rule)
20.750
OpenAI investigates ChatGPT mobile issue hiding Work Mode and model picker
23 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI Codex outage caused by backend key error
25 Sep · Major outage · incident without an independent report: counts zero
31.50
OpenAI expands Lenfest AI journalism program with $5M funding
28 Sep · Money news · counts zero (kind or rule)
100
Florida seeks court order to stop ChatGPT using human-like language
28 Sep · Policy or regulatory step · counts zero (kind or rule)
20.750
OpenAI publishes early guidelines for frontier AI safety cases
28 Sep · Policy or regulatory step · counts zero (kind or rule)
20.750
OpenAI reportedly shelves model over safety concerns
28 Sep · Incident report · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates elevated errors across ChatGPT, Codex and API
29 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B at $1.4T valuation
29 Sep · Major money news · counts zero (kind or rule)
31.50
Altman says OpenAI IPO will wait until model safety improves
30 Sep · Major money news · counts zero (kind or rule)
31.50
OpenAI reports errors in ChatGPT Space Pages
30 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI reports elevated errors for ChatGPT Pro and Plus users
30 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI partners with America's SBDC for small business AI training
30 Sep · Product update · minor: counts zero
100
OpenAI reports elevated API latency, working on mitigation
30 Sep · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
Albertsons uses ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI API for retail work
1 Oct · Product update · another company's news: counts zero
100
OpenAI parts with three safety researchers over data handling
1 Oct · Incident report · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates login and signup issues
1 Oct · Major outage · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
20.750
ChatGPT data analysis and file creation hit by errors
2 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates elevated Work Mode errors
5 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates issue affecting saving and editing Pages
5 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI outlines text watermarking approach under EU rules
5 Oct · Policy or regulatory step · counts zero (kind or rule)
20.750
OpenAI PR steers interview away from ChatGPT user's suicide
5 Oct · Incident report · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
20.750
OpenAI investigates elevated error rates in ChatGPT conversations
5 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates elevated errors in API platform login and admin APIs
6 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI reports elevated errors across ChatGPT, images, Spaces and API
6 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conversations
6 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates errors processing large PDFs in Responses API
6 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership for enterprise knowledge
6 Oct · Product update · minor: counts zero
100
OpenAI investigates issues with Agents API and Computer Use
6 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates degraded workspace agents and missing responses
7 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI fixes ChatGPT Work thread creation bug in desktop app
7 Oct · Major outage · incident without an independent report: counts zero
31.50
OpenAI investigates Codex issue preventing new thread creation
7 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates degraded Codex and Work mode performance
7 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates elevated errors with GPT-5.6 Instant in FedRAMP workspaces
7 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI disrupts two AI-enabled influence operations
8 Oct · Incident report · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates errors for APAC users in ChatGPT Work and GPTs
8 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
LegalOn cuts Codex costs 65% with task matching
8 Oct · Product update · minor: counts zero
100
Report says OpenAI revenue is $20B below prior projections
8 Oct · Money news · counts zero (kind or rule)
100
Sophos uses OpenAI Daybreak to cut threat investigation time 96%
9 Oct · New product or feature · another company's news: counts zero
20.750
OpenAI reports delayed cost data in Costs API
9 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
ChatGPT content unavailable on Android, OpenAI says resolved
9 Oct · Major outage · incident without an independent report: counts zero
31.50
OpenAI plugin management outage for workspace admins resolved
9 Oct · Major outage · incident without an independent report: counts zero
31.50
OpenAI investigates degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Work mode
13 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI reports elevated errors in Codex and ChatGPT Work
14 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI investigates limited availability on gpt-image-2.5 models
14 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
SentinelOne uses OpenAI Daybreak to speed malware analysis
14 Oct · New product or feature · another company's news: counts zero
20.750
OpenAI reports delay in Compliance API cost data
14 Oct · Minor service incident · incident below materiality 3: counted in Reliability, not here
100
OpenAI services recover after widespread feature degradation
15 Oct · Major outage · incident without an independent report: counts zero
31.50
ChatGPT Chrome extension can read your open browser tabs
15 Oct · Product update · minor: counts zero
100
Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin
16 Oct · Product update · minor: counts zero
100

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What OpenAI shipped, broke and changed lately. The full OpenAI timeline, with every model it has released.

  1. 19 Oct
  2. 17 Oct
    OpenAI staff reset Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limitsLimits and pricing · Usage limits raised
  3. 16 Oct
    OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websitesOutages and incidents · Security incident
  4. 15 Oct
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  6. 15 Oct
    OpenAI resets Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limitsLimits and pricing · Usage limits raised

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