Anthropic outage: Elevated errors for multiple models

1. resolvedJul 16, 2026, 22:53 UTC

   This issue has been resolved. From 11:30am PT / 18:30 UTC through to 3:15pm PT / 22:15 UTC some users experienced elevated errors on requests to Claude Models. Most errors were experienced within the first hour of the impact window.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Anthropic's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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How often does Anthropic have incidents?

Anthropic reported 85 incidents in the last 90 days, 32 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 7m. See Anthropic's uptime and incident history