Incident report · read from Anthropic's status page
Anthropic incident: Degraded performance for multiple models
Resolved after 2 h 41 m (18 Aug 2026, 16:20–19:01 UTC), impact minor, affecting Claude Cowork, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), claude.ai and Claude Code.
Timeline
- investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting multiple models. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- investigating
We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Haiku 4.5, and other Claude models. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- investigating
We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved
The issue affecting Claude Opus 5 has been resolved. Impact occurred from 16:11 to 18:23 UTC.
Affected components
- Claude Cowork: degraded for 2 h 6 m
- Claude API (api.anthropic.com): degraded for 2 h 6 m
- claude.ai: degraded for 2 h 6 m
- Claude Code: degraded for 2 h 6 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.
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