Anthropic experienced a minor incident on July 8, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and 1 more component, lasting 3h 4m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 08, 2026, 06:00 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- identified Jul 08, 2026, 06:28 PM UTC
We have identified an issue causing elevated errors on requests to some models, and our team is working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. We will provide an additional update shortly.
- monitoring Jul 08, 2026, 07:05 PM UTC
At this time, success rates have recovered across impacted models and we are monitoring closely to ensure no further issues occur.
- identified Jul 08, 2026, 07:29 PM UTC
We are continuing to work to fully resolve errors impacting some requests, and will provide an additional update as soon as possible.
- resolved Jul 08, 2026, 09:04 PM UTC
This issue has been resolved. Users saw elevated errors on requests to some models between 10:45am PT / 17:45 UTC and 12:40pm PT / 19:40 UTC.