Incident report · read from Anthropic's status page

Anthropic incident: Elevated errors across all models

Resolved after 2 h 46 m (29 Jul 2026, 19:49–22:36 UTC), impact critical, affecting Claude Cowork, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), claude.ai and Claude Code.

Timeline

1. 29 Jul 2026 at 19:49 UTC investigating

   We are currently investigating this issue.

2. 29 Jul 2026 at 20:33 UTC identified

   We have identified an issue resulting in elevated errors across multiple models, and are working to resolve this. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

3. 29 Jul 2026 at 21:38 UTC identified

   We are continuing to work to fully resolve issues resulting in elevated requests and latency to Claude models. At this time, we are seeing recovery across most models. We will provide an additional update as soon as possible.

4. 29 Jul 2026 at 22:20 UTC monitoring

   From 12:45 PT / 19:45 UTC through to 1:26 PT / 21:26 UTC, we saw elevated rates of errors across Claude models. We have seen recovery in success rates across all models and are monitoring closely to ensure no further issues.

5. 29 Jul 2026 at 22:36 UTC resolved

   This issue has been resolved.

Affected components

• Claude Cowork: major outage for 1 h 48 m
• Claude API (api.anthropic.com): major outage for 1 h 48 m
• claude.ai: major outage for 1 h 48 m
• Claude Code: major outage for 1 h 48 m
• Claude Cowork: partial outage for 41 m
• Claude API (api.anthropic.com): partial outage for 41 m
• claude.ai: partial outage for 41 m
• Claude Code: partial outage for 41 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 16:17 UTC.

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