Resolved · lasted 5 h

Claude outage on August 24

Reports for Claude jumped to 3,103 an hour and stayed high for 5 h.

Started
4:00 AM
August 24, 2026 · UTC
Back to normal
9:00 AM
5 h later
Peak
3,103/hr
97× normal
Anthropic’s incident
3 h 24 min
Elevated errors for multiple models

Reports during the outage

2:00 AM10:50 AM UTC

What Anthropic said

status.claude.com
Resolved5:06 – 8:30 AM · 3 h 24 min

Elevated errors for multiple models

  1. Resolved · 8:30 AM

    This issue has been resolved. From 9:50pm PT / 04:50 UTC through 00:36am PT / 07:36 UTC, users saw elevated errors on requests to Claude models, including Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5.

  2. Identified · 7:47 AM

    At this time, we have seen errors stabilize on Opus 5 and Fable 5, and are working to fully resolve success rates on all affected models. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  3. Identified · 6:42 AM

    We are continuing to work to resolve issues causing elevated requests on multiple models. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  4. Identified · 5:27 AM

    We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and other Claude models and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  5. Investigating · 5:06 AM

    We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and Claude Opus 4.8. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

Anthropic posted its first update 1 h 07 min after reports started rising.

What people said

  • HCR5:10 AM

    529 Overloaded API Error

  • no me leas6:35 AM

    creo que claude se fue a dormir

  • Marx7:35 AM

    Caido

11 comments during the outage

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