Resolved · lasted 10 h
Claude outage on August 14
Reports for Claude jumped to 1,446 an hour and stayed high for 10 h.
- Started
- 2:00 PM
- August 14, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 12:00 AM
- 10 h later
- Peak
- 1,446/hr
- 45× normal
- Anthropic’s incident
- 1 h 28 min
- Service disruption on Claude services
Reports during the outage
What Anthropic said
status.claude.comService disruption on Claude services
- Resolved · 9:58 PM
The issue affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved. Impact occurred from 20:14 to 20:38 UTC.
- Monitoring · 8:44 PM
A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and we are monitoring for recovery.
- Identified · 8:44 PM
We have identified the cause of the issue affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- Investigating · 8:30 PM
We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
Anthropic posted its first update 6 h 31 min after reports started rising.
What people said
- joaquin5:36 PM
couldnt finish loading
- crispydoggo6:48 PM
dowsn't work in cowork app, the app is frozen
- Yo-yo8:31 PM
Thinking for too long
5 comments during the outage
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