Incident report · read from Anthropic's status page

Anthropic incident: Elevated errors for Claude Sonnet 5

Resolved after 26 m (2 Sep 2026, 21:17–21:44 UTC), impact major, affecting Claude Cowork, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), claude.ai and Claude Code.

Timeline

1. 2 Sep 2026 at 21:17 UTC investigating

   We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Sonnet 5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

2. 2 Sep 2026 at 21:44 UTC resolved

   The issue affecting Claude Sonnet 5 has been resolved. Impact occurred from 2:05pm PT / 21:05 UTC to 2:19pm PT / 21:19 UTC.

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 15:06 UTC.

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