Anthropic outage: Service disruption on Claude services

Affected components

• Claude API (api.anthropic.com)
• Claude Code
• Claude Console (platform.claude.com)
• Claude Cowork
• claude.ai

1. resolvedAug 16, 2026, 22:34 UTC

   The issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved.

2. monitoringAug 16, 2026, 22:22 UTC

   A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and we are monitoring for recovery.

3. investigatingAug 16, 2026, 22:02 UTC

   We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

4. investigatingAug 16, 2026, 21:58 UTC

   We are investigating an issue with users authenticating to claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

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 47 incidents in the last 90 days, 21 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 4m. See Anthropic's uptime and incident history