Anthropic incident
Elevated errors for Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic experienced a major incident on August 13, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and 1 more component, lasting 1h 34m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
claude.aiClaude API (api.anthropic.com)Claude CodeClaude Cowork
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 13, 2026, 02:33 PM UTC
We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Sonnet 5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- investigating Aug 13, 2026, 03:44 PM UTC
We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- resolved Aug 13, 2026, 04:08 PM UTC
The issue affecting Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 has been resolved.