Resolved · lasted 7 h

Claude outage on October 5

Reports for Claude jumped to 152 an hour and stayed high for 7 h.

Started
1:00 PM
October 5, 2026 · UTC
Back to normal
8:00 PM
7 h later
Peak
152/hr
5× normal
Anthropic’s incident
16 min
Elevated errors for Claude Mythos 5.1 and Claude Fable 5.1

Reports during the outage

11:00 AM9:50 PM UTC

What Anthropic said

status.claude.com
Resolved1:05 – 1:21 PM · 16 min

Elevated errors for Claude Mythos 5.1 and Claude Fable 5.1

  1. Resolved · 1:21 PM

    The issue affecting Claude Mythos 5.1 and Claude Fable 5.1 has been resolved. Impact occurred from 05:40 PT / 12:40 UTC to 06:10 PT / 13:10 UTC.

  2. Investigating · 1:05 PM

    We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5.1 and Claude Fable 5.1. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

Anthropic posted its first update 6 min after reports started rising.

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