Anthropic incident

Elevated errors on requests to multiple models

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Anthropic experienced a major incident on August 20, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and 1 more component, lasting 26m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 20, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 20, 2026, 07:42 PM UTC
Duration
26m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 20, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 20, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

    We are investigating elevated errors on requests to some Claude models. We will provide additional updates as soon as possible.

  2. resolved Aug 20, 2026, 07:42 PM UTC

    This issue has been resolved.