Resolved · lasted 7 h
Claude outage on August 16
Reports for Claude jumped to 17,106 an hour and stayed high for 7 h.
- Started
- 9:00 PM
- August 16, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 4:00 AM
- 7 h later
- Peak
- 17,106/hr
- 535× normal
- Anthropic’s incident
- 36 min
- Service disruption on Claude services
Reports during the outage
What Anthropic said
status.claude.comService disruption on Claude services
- Resolved · 10:34 PM
The issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved.
- Monitoring · 10:22 PM
A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and we are monitoring for recovery.
- Investigating · 10:02 PM
We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- Investigating · 9:58 PM
We are investigating an issue with users authenticating to claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
Anthropic posted its first update 59 min after reports started rising.
What people said
- Ty9:51 PM
Claude fonctionne plus
- Michele10:06 PM
No se abre directamente la app
- Arthur10:28 PM
Ya volvio
35 comments during the outage
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