Resolved · lasted 4 h
Claude outage on October 21
Reports for Claude jumped to 220 an hour and stayed high for 4 h.
- Started
- 3:00 PM
- October 21, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 7:00 PM
- 4 h later
- Peak
- 220/hr
- 7× normal
- Anthropic’s incident
- 40 min
- Degraded performance for Claude Fable 5
Reports during the outage
1:00 PM8:50 PM UTC
What Anthropic said
status.claude.comResolved7:49 – 8:29 PM · 40 min
Degraded performance for Claude Fable 5
- Resolved · 8:29 PM
The issue affecting other Claude models has been resolved.
- Investigating · 7:49 PM
We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
Anthropic posted its first update 4 h 49 min after reports started rising.
What people said
- VgTempe, AZ · 5:06 PM
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1 comments during the outage
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Live status, today’s reports and other past outages.