Incident report · read from Anthropic's status page

Anthropic incident: Service disruption on Claude services

Resolved after 1 h 27 m (14 Aug 2026, 20:30–21:58 UTC), impact major, affecting Claude Cowork, Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and Claude Code.

Timeline

1. 14 Aug 2026 at 20:30 UTC investigating

   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.

2. 14 Aug 2026 at 20:44 UTC identified

   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.

3. 14 Aug 2026 at 20:44 UTC monitoring

   A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and we are monitoring for recovery.

4. 14 Aug 2026 at 21:58 UTC resolved

   The issue affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved. Impact occurred from 20:14 to 20:38 UTC.

Affected components

• Claude Cowork: partial outage for 1 h 27 m
• Claude API (api.anthropic.com): partial outage for 1 h 27 m
• Claude Code: partial outage for 1 h 27 m

Source

Anthropic's own report of this incident, on Anthropic's status page. This page is a record of Anthropic's own report; where the two disagree, theirs is right.

Last checked 8 Sep 2026 at 16:16 UTC.

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