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Anthropic incident: Degraded performance on Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Jul 31, 2026, 06:18 UTC. It was resolved after 47 min.

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Jul 31, 2026, 06:18 UTC
started
Jul 31, 2026, 07:04 UTC
resolved
47 min
duration
Minor
impact

Affected components

  • Claude API (api.anthropic.com)
  • Claude Code
  • Claude Cowork
  • claude.ai
  1. resolvedJul 31, 2026, 07:04 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. investigatingJul 31, 2026, 06:18 UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

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

Anthropic incident on Jul 31, 2026: Degraded performance on Claude Sonnet 5 · APIStatus.watch