Anthropic outage: Claude.ai is experiencing elevated error rates

1. resolvedMay 13, 2026, 11:57 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

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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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