Playground timeout with long-running model requests
Last updated: February 26, 2026
Applicable To
Plans: All plans
Deployments: All
Summary
Issue: Playground runs with long-running models like gpt-5-mini (85+ seconds) appear to hang or timeout, showing no progress updates in the UI even though the request completes successfully in the background.
Cause: Server-Side Events (SSE) connection drops before the job completes, preventing the UI from receiving completion updates.
Resolution: Refresh the page to view completed results
Resolution Steps
Workaround for current issue
Step 1: Wait for expected completion time
Allow sufficient time for the model to complete processing (typically 85+ seconds for gpt-5-mini).
Step 2: Refresh the browser page
Reload the page to display the completed results that processed in the background.