Overview
- A sharp spike in user reports on outage tracker Downdetector signaled widespread failures for Claude starting in the morning, and third‑party reports rose into the thousands.
- Anthropic posted on its status page that multiple models showed an elevated error rate and that engineers identified the issue and are implementing a fix.
- The outage has hit both paid and free accounts and affected Claude Chat, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the public API while Claude for Government appears to be functioning.
- Users reported the assistant stalling on 'contemplating' responses or returning 'this model isn't available right now', and Downdetector counts peaked around 7,119 before dipping to roughly 6,000 in the US.
- This is the latest interruption in a run of recent reliability problems for Claude, creating friction for individual users and developers and prompting firms to watch Anthropic's status updates for full restoration.