Claude Outage History

Claude AI services experienced degraded performance beginning at Jan 7, 2026 7:08 PM UTC, affecting claude.ai and Claude Code. Users saw elevated errors and, for Claude subscriptions, incorrect display of usage limits. This degraded experience could disrupt interactive sessions and quota-based features on Claude.ai.

The provider published three status updates during the incident as they investigated and then restored service. The outage lasted from Jan 7, 2026 7:08 PM UTC to Jan 8, 2026 5:13 AM UTC, roughly 10 hours and 5 minutes. Services were fully restored by Jan 8, 2026 5:13 AM UTC. User reports came from multiple locations, suggesting a broader impact rather than a single region.

Claude experienced a brief degraded performance beginning at 9:13 AM UTC due to elevated error rates on Opus 4.5. The issue affected Claude API (api.anthropic.com), claude.ai, and platform.claude.com, with users potentially encountering slower responses or intermittent failures. The status page showed elevated error rates, and the provider issued two updates during the incident. The incident was resolved by 9:28 AM UTC, lasting approximately 15 minutes.