Is Anthropic Down?
Claude 4, Claude 3.5, Claude API, Claude Code, and all Anthropic platform services.
[ STATUS AT A GLANCE ]
System Components
Current status of individual Anthropic services
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About Anthropic
What Anthropic does, where the data on this page comes from, and recent reliability
[ ABOUT ANTHROPIC ]
About Anthropic
Anthropic provides Claude, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Sonnet. Anthropic outages often matter most to engineering, agent, and internal tooling use cases where Claude is deeply embedded into day-to-day developer workflows.
This page pulls data from Anthropic's official status page to show current service health, any active incidents, and a history of recent issues — all in one view.
[ DATA SOURCES ]
Full incident history available
Anthropic publishes detailed component status, a full incident archive, and scheduled maintenance data through their official status page.
- Data pulled from Anthropic's official status page (status.claude.com)
- Refreshed every 60 seconds
- Covers Claude, Claude API, Claude Code, Claude Sonnet, and Claude Opus
- Includes full incident archive and scheduled maintenance history
[ RELIABILITY ]
Recent reliability
- 50 incidents reported over the last 90 days.
- The most recent incident was reported today.
- All 5 monitored components are currently operational.
- Most frequently affected: claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude API (api.anthropic.com).
[ COMMON USE CASES ]
How teams use Anthropic
Anthropic outages often matter most to engineering, agent, and internal tooling use cases where Claude is deeply embedded into day-to-day developer workflows.
Incidents & Maintenance
Active incidents, scheduled maintenance, and incident history for Anthropic
Past Incidents
Elevated errors on Claude.ai [retroactive]
Mar 23, 2026 — Resolved Mar 23, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
Between 9:10 PT / 16:10 UTC and 9:26 PT / 16:26 UTC users saw an elevated rate of errors on Claude.ai The Claude API was unaffected.
Claude.ai and Claude login down
Mar 22, 2026 — Resolved Mar 22, 2026
This incident has been resolved. Logins and authentication for claude.ai and platform.claude.com have returned to normal
A mitigation has been applied. Logins have returned to normal, the team is continuing to monitor the situation.
We are investigating an issue with users authenticating to claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com)
We are investigating an issue preventing logins on Claude Console (platform.claude.com)
Delayed response completion on Claude.ai
Mar 22, 2026 — Resolved Mar 22, 2026
As of 13:02 UTC / 06:02 PT this incident has been mitigated.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Since approximately 20:00 UTC / 13:00 PT on Friday, March 20, Claude.ai responses may appear to "hang" for around 5 seconds after the text has finished streaming before the message completes. The Anthropic API is not affected.
Elevated error rates on Claude Opus and Sonnet 4.6
Mar 21, 2026 — Resolved Mar 21, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
We have observed success rates return to normal for Claude Opus 4.6, and are working to fully resolve elevated errors for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
We have identified an issue resulting in elevated errors on both Claude Opus and Sonnet 4.6, and are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.
We are currently investigating elevated error rates affecting Claude Opus 4.6. Our team is actively working to identify the root cause.
Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6
Mar 19, 2026 — Resolved Mar 19, 2026
This incident started at 8:53 PT / 15:53 UTC and the errors have now returned to baseline since 9:14 PT / 16:14 UTC.
We are currently investigating this issue.
Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Mar 19, 2026 — Resolved Mar 19, 2026
As of 8:42 PT / 15:42 UTC the error rate has now returned to baseline.
We are currently investigating elevated errors that started at 8:23 PT / 15:23 UTC.
Elevated errors across surfaces
Mar 19, 2026 — Resolved Mar 19, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
From 23:59–00:30 UTC, users experienced elevated errors when trying to authenticate across various Claude surfaces including Claude.ai and Claude Code. This issue has been resolved, and we are monitoring closely to ensure no further issues.
We are currently investigating this issue. Our team is actively working to identify the root cause.
Elevated errors on Claude.ai
Mar 18, 2026 — Resolved Mar 18, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Claude Code login/logout actions are also affected by this outage.
We are currently investigating this issue.
Increased errors on Opus 4.6
Mar 18, 2026 — Resolved Mar 18, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
We are currently investigating this issue.
Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6
Mar 18, 2026 — Resolved Mar 18, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
We are currently investigating this issue.
Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6
Mar 17, 2026 — Resolved Mar 18, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
We are currently investigating this issue. We have identified mitigations which we are continuing to regularly employ as we investigate the root cause.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Mar 17, 2026 — Resolved Mar 17, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. At this stage, only free Claude.ai users are being impacted.
Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Mar 17, 2026 — Resolved Mar 17, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. At this stage, only free Claude.ai users are being impacted.
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Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6
Mar 17, 2026 — Resolved Mar 17, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
We are currently investigating this issue.
Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Mar 16, 2026 — Resolved Mar 16, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. This is currently only impacting free Claude.ai users.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
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Elevated errors on Claude.ai
Mar 16, 2026 — Resolved Mar 16, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently investigating this issue.
Elevated errors on Claude.ai
Mar 16, 2026 — Resolved Mar 16, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
We are currently investigating this issue.
Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
Mar 13, 2026 — Resolved Mar 13, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently investigating this issue.
Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Mar 12, 2026 — Resolved Mar 12, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
A repeat of an earlier issue today started at 9:27 PT / 16:27 UTC.
Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 4.6 and on Claude.ai
Mar 12, 2026 — Resolved Mar 12, 2026
This incident has been resolved.
We recently had an incident on Sonnet 4.6 between 8:30 PT / 15:30 UTC and 8:44 PT / 15:44 UTC where users would have seen a higher error rate across Claude Code, Claude API, and Claude.ai. Separately, we also had at around 8:27 PT an incident relate to Claude.ai that lasted a minute.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Anthropic down right now?
Check the status indicator at the top of this page — it pulls directly from Anthropic's official status page. If Anthropic is experiencing any issues, you'll see it reflected here.
What does this Anthropic status page track?
This page tracks Claude, Claude API, Claude Code, Claude Sonnet, and Claude Opus using data from Anthropic's official status page. You can see current component health, active incidents, and a history of past issues.
How often is Anthropic status updated here?
We check Anthropic's status page every 60 seconds. How quickly issues show up here depends on how fast Anthropic updates their own official status.
Why monitor Anthropic status?
Anthropic outages often matter most to engineering, agent, and internal tooling use cases where Claude is deeply embedded into day-to-day developer workflows.
What can I do if Anthropic goes down?
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