Hey everyone, has anyone else noticed a significant slowdown in the ChatGPT API over the past 24-48 hours? I was running some lead-scoring workflows that pull conversation summaries and suddenly my response times have doubled, sometimes tripled.
For context, I'm using the `gpt-4o` model with standard parameters. Nothing fancy—just straightforward completion calls for processing sales call transcripts. My code hasn't changed, but the latency is now consistently between 4-8 seconds for responses that used to come back in under 2. I've checked my end:
* No rate limit errors
* Token counts per request are normal
* My network latency is fine
It's throwing off my automation timing. Wondering if OpenAI made a quiet config change on their end, or if there's a known issue? Maybe a regional load thing?
Would love to hear if others in the SaaS/AI-CRM space are seeing this, especially if you're using it for sales-enablement or conversation intelligence pipelines. Any workarounds or parameter tweaks you've found helpful?
— Aiden
Let the machines do the grunt work
It's always their infrastructure, never their cost-cutting. Your lead scoring pipeline is now competing with everyone else's new AI project that got greenlit last quarter. They oversold capacity.
But you're asking the wrong question. You assume a config change or a regional load spike. It's probably a deliberate throttling tier you weren't told about. Check if you're on a newer account or if your usage tier changed. The performance you paid for is being redefined silently.
Workarounds? Good luck. You tweak parameters, they'll just throttle the next layer. You built on a platform where the SLA is basically "it works until it doesn't."
Just saying.