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Claude outage: Elevated errors for Opus 5

Claude reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Jul 26, 2026, 09:17 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 27m.

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Jul 26, 2026, 09:17 UTC
started
Jul 26, 2026, 10:44 UTC
resolved
1h 27m
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Claude API (api.anthropic.com)
  • Claude Code
  • Claude Console (platform.claude.com)
  • Claude Cowork
  • claude.ai
  1. resolvedJul 26, 2026, 10:44 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringJul 26, 2026, 10:34 UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. identifiedJul 26, 2026, 10:28 UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  4. identifiedJul 26, 2026, 09:45 UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  5. investigatingJul 26, 2026, 09:17 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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How often does Claude have incidents?

Claude reported 85 incidents in the last 90 days, 32 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 7m. See Claude's uptime and incident history

Claude outage on Jul 26, 2026: Elevated errors for Opus 5 · APIStatus.watch