Anthropic incident
Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code
Anthropic experienced a critical incident on April 15, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and 1 more component, lasting 2h 49m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 15, 2026, 02:53 PM UTC
We are seeing increased errors on Claude.ai, API, and Claude Code
- investigating Apr 15, 2026, 02:55 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- identified Apr 15, 2026, 03:03 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- identified Apr 15, 2026, 03:20 PM UTC
The Claude API has fully recovered as of 8:01 PT / 16:01 UTC. We are currently working on mitigating the ongoing errors for Claude AI. Claude Code users who are logged in are still able to use it, but logging in is still broken.
- identified Apr 15, 2026, 03:57 PM UTC
Claude.ai and Platform are down. Login for Claude Code does not work via Claude.ai.
- identified Apr 15, 2026, 04:29 PM UTC
We have seen success rates for login to Claude.ai, including via Claude Code, stabilize and are working to fully resolve this issue. We will provide an update shortly.
- resolved Apr 15, 2026, 05:42 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.