Major impactResolvedAI/ML

Claude outage: Elevated errors for Claude Opus 4.8

Claude reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Jun 16, 2026, 20:50 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 12m.

Right now Claude is operational. Live Claude status →

🔔 Get alerted when Claude has issuesFree · email alerts · no credit card
Jun 16, 2026, 20:50 UTC
started
Jun 16, 2026, 22:02 UTC
resolved
1h 12m
duration
Major
impact
  1. resolvedJun 16, 2026, 22:02 UTC

    This issue has been resolved. We saw elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 4.8 between 1:45pm PT / 20:45 UTC and 1:58pm PT / 20:58 UTC.

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.

Other services with incidents at the same time

Overlapping incidents aren't necessarily related.

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 Jun 16, 2026: Elevated errors for Claude Opus 4.8 · APIStatus.watch