Anthropic incident

Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude API

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Anthropic experienced a major incident on September 29, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and 1 more component, lasting 2h 5m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 29, 2026, 02:21 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 29, 2026, 04:27 PM UTC
Duration
2h 5m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 29, 2026, 02:21 PM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 02:21 PM UTC

    We are investigating elevated error rates affecting Claude.ai (including the desktop and mobile apps), Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Users may see failed requests, errors loading or sending conversations, or be asked to sign in again; retrying may succeed. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  2. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 02:28 PM UTC

    We are investigating elevated error rates affecting Claude.ai (including the desktop and mobile apps), Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Some requests to the Claude API are also returning errors. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  3. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 02:30 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  4. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 02:41 PM UTC

    We have applied a mitigation and error rates have dropped substantially. Some sign-in attempts, account actions and Claude Code and Cowork sessions are still failing. We are continuing to work on a full fix.

  5. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC

    The errors that began at 14:00 UTC were mitigated at 14:36 UTC, and existing conversations are mostly working again. A second issue is preventing many users from signing in (single sign-on and Sign in with Apple are unavailable), starting new chats, voice conversations and Claude Code or Cowork sessions, making purchases, and uploading files. If you're signed in, please don't sign out. We're working on a fix and will post another update within 30 minutes.

  6. monitoring Sep 29, 2026, 03:11 PM UTC

    Most services have recovered as of 14:59 UTC. Signing in, starting new chats, voice conversations, Claude Code and Cowork sessions, purchases and file uploads are working again. Some messages sent between 14:00 and 14:59 UTC may not have been saved. We are monitoring closely and will post another update within 30 minutes.

  7. monitoring Sep 29, 2026, 03:30 PM UTC

    All services have been operating normally since 14:59 UTC. We are continuing to monitor.

  8. resolved Sep 29, 2026, 04:27 PM UTC

    The issue affecting Claude.ai, the Claude desktop and mobile apps, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API has been resolved, and services have been operating normally since recovery. Impact occurred from 07:00 PT / 14:00 UTC to 07:59 PT / 14:59 UTC.