Incident report · read from Anthropic's status page

Anthropic incident: Elevated errors on requests to multiple models

Resolved after 26 m (20 Aug 2026, 19:16–19:42 UTC), impact major, affecting Claude Cowork, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), claude.ai and Claude Code.

Timeline

1. 20 Aug 2026 at 19:16 UTC investigating

   We are investigating elevated errors on requests to some Claude models. We will provide additional updates as soon as possible.

2. 20 Aug 2026 at 19:42 UTC resolved

   This issue has been resolved.

Affected components

• Claude Cowork: partial outage for 26 m
• Claude API (api.anthropic.com): partial outage for 26 m
• claude.ai: partial outage for 26 m
• Claude Code: partial outage for 26 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 16:20 UTC.

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