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Claude incident: Degraded performance on Claude Opus 4.8

Claude reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Jul 30, 2026, 13:43 UTC. It was resolved after 41 min.

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Jul 30, 2026, 13:43 UTC
started
Jul 30, 2026, 14:24 UTC
resolved
41 min
duration
Minor
impact

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 Claude's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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Claude incident on Jul 30, 2026: Degraded performance on Claude Opus 4.8 · APIStatus.watch