Resolved · lasted 7 h
Claude outage on August 4
Reports for Claude jumped to 1,344 an hour and stayed high for 7 h.
- Started
- 3:00 PM
- August 4, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 10:00 PM
- 7 h later
- Peak
- 1,344/hr
- 42× normal
- Anthropic’s incident
- 1 h 11 min
- Elevated errors across many models
Reports during the outage
1:00 PM11:50 PM UTC
What Anthropic said
status.claude.comResolved8:48 – 9:59 PM · 1 h 11 min
Elevated errors across many models
- Resolved · 9:59 PM
This issue has been resolved.
- Investigating · 9:04 PM
We have identified an issue which resulted in some users experiencing issues when attempting to log into Anthropic services, including Claude.ai and Claude Code via oAuth. Additionally, some users saw errors when making requests to models. At this time, we have seen success rates recover and are monitoring closely to ensure there are no further issues.
- Investigating · 8:48 PM
We are currently investigating this issue.
Anthropic posted its first update 5 h 48 min after reports started rising.
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