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Claude outage: Elevated errors on several models

Claude reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Jul 21, 2026, 15:35 UTC. It was resolved after 2h 43m.

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Jul 21, 2026, 15:35 UTC
started
Jul 21, 2026, 18:18 UTC
resolved
2h 43m
duration
Critical
impact
  1. resolvedJul 21, 2026, 18:18 UTC

    From 8:28am PT / 15:28 UTC through 9:26am PT / 16:26 UTC users experienced elevated errors on requests to multiple Claude models. This issue has been resolved.

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Claude outage on Jul 21, 2026: Elevated errors on several models · APIStatus.watch