Outage report · Major outage
Claude outage on Aug 16, 2026
Service disruption on Claude services
What happened
Claude reported a major outage starting Aug 16, 2026, 21:58 UTC, affecting claude.ai, Claude Console (platform.claude.com), Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork. It was marked resolved at Aug 16, 2026, 22:34 UTC.
- The incident lasted 36m from first report to resolution.
- Claude had reported 2 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 5 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Claude
The issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of Claude started after this incident, so this report is based on Claude's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Claude's overall reliability
Claude has a reliability score of 57.0/100, with 99.25% effective uptime and 39 incidents over the last 90 days.
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