Anthropic outage: Service disruption on Claude services

Affected components

• Claude API (api.anthropic.com)
• Claude Code
• Claude Cowork

1. resolvedAug 14, 2026, 21:58 UTC

   The issue affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved. Impact occurred from 20:14 to 20:38 UTC.

2. monitoringAug 14, 2026, 20:44 UTC

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

3. identifiedAug 14, 2026, 20:44 UTC

   We have identified the cause of the issue affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

4. investigatingAug 14, 2026, 20:30 UTC

   We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting the Claude API, 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