Resolved · lasted 7 h
Claude outage on August 12
Reports for Claude jumped to 491 an hour and stayed high for 7 h.
- Started
- 1:00 PM
- August 12, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 8:00 PM
- 7 h later
- Peak
- 491/hr
- 15× normal
- Anthropic’s incident
- 4 h 17 min
- Degraded performance for multiple models
Reports during the outage
11:00 AM9:50 PM UTC
What Anthropic said
status.claude.comResolved1:50 – 6:07 PM · 4 h 17 min
Degraded performance for multiple models
- Resolved · 6:07 PM
This issue has been resolved.
- Identified · 5:28 PM
We are continuing to work to resolve an issue resulting in slightly elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- Identified · 4:10 PM
We have identified an issue which resulted in errors across multiple models. At this time, errors are primarily impacting Claude Fable 5 and we are working to fully resolve these issues.
- Investigating · 1:50 PM
We are investigating elevated errors on requests to multiple models. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
Anthropic posted its first update 50 min after reports started rising.
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