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Claude incident: Elevated errors across many models

Claude reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Jun 16, 2026, 17:29 UTC. It was resolved after 2h 3m.

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Jun 16, 2026, 17:29 UTC
started
Jun 16, 2026, 19:32 UTC
resolved
2h 3m
duration
Minor
impact
  1. resolvedJun 16, 2026, 19:32 UTC

    The incident has now been resolved. We had two phases: * between 10:23 PT / 17:23 UTC to 11:00 PT / 18:00 UTC -- all Sonnet and Opus models were affected, reaching an error rate of around 10% * after 11:00 PT / 18:00 UTC and until 12:20 PT / 19:20 UTC -- Opus 4.8 had an average error rate of 10% The incident is now resolved.

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Claude incident on Jun 16, 2026: Elevated errors across many models · APIStatus.watch