Anthropic incident

Elevated errors across many models

Resolved after 2 hours 2 minutes, affecting claude.ai and Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and 1 more, on June 16, 2026.

resolved Jun 16, 2026, 07:32 PM UTC

The incident has now been resolved. We had two phases: * between 10:23 PT / 17:23 UTC to 11:00 PT / 18:00 UTC -- all Sonnet and Opus models were affected, reaching an error rate of around 10% * after 11:00 PT / 18:00 UTC and until 12:20 PT / 19:20 UTC -- Opus 4.8 had an average error rate of 10% The incident is now resolved.

Started
Jun 16, 2026, 05:29 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 16, 2026, 07:32 PM UTC
Duration
2h 2m
Detected by Pingoru
Jun 16, 2026, 05:29 PM UTC

Affected components

claude.aiClaude API (api.anthropic.com)Claude CodeClaude Cowork

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jun 16, 2026, 05:29 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Jun 16, 2026, 06:00 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. identified Jun 16, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC

    We are still seeing errors on Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5.

  4. identified Jun 16, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work to resolve an elevated rate of errors on requests to Claude Opus 4.8, and will provide an additional update as soon as possible.

  5. identified Jun 16, 2026, 07:08 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  6. monitoring Jun 16, 2026, 07:22 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  7. resolved Jun 16, 2026, 07:32 PM UTC

    The incident has now been resolved. We had two phases: * between 10:23 PT / 17:23 UTC to 11:00 PT / 18:00 UTC -- all Sonnet and Opus models were affected, reaching an error rate of around 10% * after 11:00 PT / 18:00 UTC and until 12:20 PT / 19:20 UTC -- Opus 4.8 had an average error rate of 10% The incident is now resolved.

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