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Anthropic outage: Elevated errors across Claude Models

Anthropic reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on May 8, 2026, 09:49 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 51m.

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May 8, 2026, 09:49 UTC
started
May 8, 2026, 11:40 UTC
resolved
1h 51m
duration
Major
impact
  1. resolvedMay 8, 2026, 11:40 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

Anthropic outage on May 8, 2026: Elevated errors across Claude Models · APIStatus.watch