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    Anthropic Outage History

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    There were 326 Anthropic outages since January 2025 which are summarized below, including incident details, duration, and resolution information.

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    : Anthropic Claude.ai chat creation errors brief outage

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged:
    Outage ended: (15 minutes)

    The Claude.ai component experienced transient errors when initiating chats, causing a brief outage in chat creation. The incident began at and was resolved by , lasting about 15 minutes. The status page noted the issue was identified and a fix was being implemented around . The Claude.ai component received two official updates during the incident.

    The impact was limited to chat creation functionality, with no broader service disruption reported, and Claude.ai returned to normal operation after the fix was deployed.

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    : Anthropic Opus 4 brief elevated errors across UI and API

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged:
    Outage ended: (1 hour and 15 minutes)

    Anthropic Claude Opus 4 experienced a brief degradation with elevated errors across the web console, API, and Claude.ai. The incident began at and the status page listed console.anthropic.com, api.anthropic.com, and claude.ai as affected. Users interacting with Claude Opus 4 may have experienced errors or slower responses during this period.

    The outage lasted approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, with Anthropic publishing two status updates as engineers investigated and then resolved the issue. The services returned to an operational state by with all three components listed as up.

    Impact was limited to three components and the incident was contained. Anthropic issued two status updates to communicate investigation and resolution, and Claude Opus 4 components returned to up by the end of the incident.

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    : Anthropic Claude API and Code degraded for several hours

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged:
    Outage ended: (5 hours and 10 minutes)

    The Claude service experienced a multi-hour degraded period affecting api.anthropic.com, claude.ai, and Claude Code. The incident began at with intermittent visibility issues related to Google Docs in the project knowledge base, followed by elevated errors on Claude Opus 4. The disruption lasted approximately 5 hours and 10 minutes and was resolved by . Users likely encountered degraded API responses and intermittent access to Claude features during the event.

    The service published three official status updates documenting the progression from investigation to restoration, noting ongoing issues before all components returned to normal by the end of the window.

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    : Anthropic Claude Haiku 3.5 outage impacts API and Console

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged:
    Outage ended: (1 hour and 5 minutes)

    The Anthropic Claude Haiku 3.5 service experienced an outage with elevated errors affecting the API at api.anthropic.com and the web Console at console.anthropic.com. The incident began at when the Claude status page transitioned to a warning as engineers worked to implement a fix. The two affected components were api.anthropic.com and console.anthropic.com, and the issue was resolved by after about 1 hour and 5 minutes. The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident.

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    : Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 elevated errors across services

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged:
    Outage ended: (3 hours and 35 minutes)

    Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 experienced elevated errors affecting multiple Claude services, including claude.ai, api.anthropic.com, and Claude Code. The issue prompted an investigation starting at , with the status updated to a degraded state at as engineers worked to identify the root cause. Users reported API errors in the early afternoon UTC, around , indicating broader impact across the platform.

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    : Anthropic Claude services briefly degraded; API, Claude AI, Claude Code affected

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged:
    Outage ended: (50 minutes)

    Anthropic Claude experienced a brief degradation affecting api.anthropic.com, claude.ai, and Claude Code. The incident began at and was resolved by , lasting about 50 minutes. Users interacting with the Claude API, Claude AI, or Claude Code likely saw elevated errors or slower responses during this window. The issue impacted multiple core endpoints across the Claude platform.

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    : Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 elevated errors briefly impacted services

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged:
    Outage ended: (1 hour and 55 minutes)

    Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 experienced elevated errors that affected api.anthropic.com, claude.ai, and console.anthropic.com. Users attempting to use the API, interact with Claude, or access the console likely saw request failures or degraded responses. The disruption began at and persisted until . The incident involved three components and generated a small amount of user feedback.

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    : Anthropic Claude chat sessions disrupted by connectivity issues

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged: No

    Anthropic Claude experienced connectivity issues that caused some users' chat sessions to end prematurely. Users reported activity in the UTC afternoon window from around to .

    An Early Warning Signal was triggered at based on these user reports, indicating detection before any official Claude status update. At the time of writing, Claude’s status page had not published an acknowledged incident. The reported impact appeared limited to chat connectivity for a subset of users.

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    : Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 services briefly degraded

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged:
    Outage ended: (11 minutes)

    Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 experienced a brief degradation affecting api.anthropic.com, claude.ai, and console.anthropic.com. Users may have encountered elevated errors or slower responses during the incident.

    Status updates indicate the investigation began around with the affected components entering degraded state by . The issue was resolved by . The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident to communicate progression and resolution.

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    : Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 brief degraded services

    Detected by StatusGator:
    Officially acknowledged:
    Outage ended: (25 minutes)

    Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 experienced elevated errors that led to degraded performance across three components: api.anthropic.com, claude.ai, and console.anthropic.com. Users could have encountered slower responses or intermittent issues when using Claude Opus 4.1.

    The outage began at and was resolved by , lasting roughly 25 minutes. The Claude Opus status page issued two updates during the incident as teams investigated and then restored normal service to all affected endpoints.

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