Anthropic reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Jun 16, 2026, 20:50 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 12m.
Right now Anthropic is operational. Live Anthropic status →
This issue has been resolved. We saw elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 4.8 between 1:45pm PT / 20:45 UTC and 1:58pm PT / 20:58 UTC.
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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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