Anthropic incident
Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic experienced a minor incident on May 4, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and 1 more component, lasting 46m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
claude.aiClaude API (api.anthropic.com)Claude Code
Update timeline
- investigating May 04, 2026, 01:59 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- identified May 04, 2026, 02:08 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring May 04, 2026, 02:27 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved May 04, 2026, 02:45 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.