Anthropic experienced a major incident on August 24, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and 1 more component, lasting 3h 24m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 24, 2026, 05:06 AM UTC
We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and Claude Opus 4.8. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 24, 2026, 05:27 AM UTC
We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and other Claude models and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 24, 2026, 06:42 AM UTC
We are continuing to work to resolve issues causing elevated requests on multiple models. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 24, 2026, 07:47 AM UTC
At this time, we have seen errors stabilize on Opus 5 and Fable 5, and are working to fully resolve success rates on all affected models. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- resolved Aug 24, 2026, 08:30 AM UTC
This issue has been resolved. From 9:50pm PT / 04:50 UTC through 00:36am PT / 07:36 UTC, users saw elevated errors on requests to Claude models, including Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5.