Anthropic incident: Degraded performance on Claude Opus 4.8

Affected components

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

1. resolvedJul 30, 2026, 14:24 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. investigatingJul 30, 2026, 13:43 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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