Claude Down: Anthropic's AI Platform Hit by Multi-Model Outage Affecting Thousands

Is Claude Down? AI Chatbot Slowly Recovers From Latest Outage

Having problems connecting with Claude AI this morning? You're not alone with many struggling to connect to Anthropic's tools during an hours-long outage. Reports of issues on Downdetector began at 12:30 a.m. ET on Aug. 24 and continued for an hour before Anthropic officially acknowledged an issue. An update at 1:27 a.m. ET saw Anthropic say the issue caused "elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and other Claude models." At 3:47 a.m. ET, Anthropic said, "At this time, we have seen errors stabilize on Opus 5 and Fable 5, and are working to fully resolve success rates on all affected models. We will provide an update as soon as possible." That's the latest we've heard from Anthropic, but failure rates reported through Downdetector are dropping, suggesting more people are able to connect to the correct tools. If you continue to see issues, you will have to await further news from Anthropic. We've yet to find out exactly what caused this issue, but we expect to hear from the artificial intelligence tool's creator later to learn the cause of this latest outage. Anthropic also uses its status page to boast about its outage stats, claiming 99.29% uptime for claude.ai tools over the last 60 days. A large percentage of its included downtime comes from the last few hours, although it routinely sees small pockets of issues that cause minor outages that don't usually last this long.

You're not alone: Claude is down right now

The company has yet to provide a timeline for when the issues will be fully resolved. Anthropic's Claude AI service is experiencing issues right now. A growing number of users are reporting problems accessing the platform. Reports of an outage have also surged on Downdetector and X. Anthropic has acknowledged the problem on its status page, saying it has identified the cause of "elevated errors" affecting requests to multiple Claude models, including Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Opus 5. The company says it is working on a fix. The status page initially listed Claude Opus 4.8 as one of the affected models, before Anthropic updated the notice to say the problem affected multiple models. In its latest update, Anthropic said it is "continuing to work to resolve issues causing elevated requests on multiple models" and will provide another update as soon as possible. We'll update this article when we know more.

Claude outage hits multiple models again

Anthropic's Claude AI is showing signs of overload again. On Monday morning, users trying to work with Claude encountered failed requests and a "529 Overloaded" error. The message says the problem is a temporary server-side issue, then sends users to Anthropic's status page. A screenshot shared with TNW shows the error appearing in the Claude interface. Anthropic's own incident report is broader, and more cautious. At 05:06 UTC on 24 August, the company said it was investigating elevated errors affecting requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and Claude Opus 4.8. The incident also affects claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. At 05:27 UTC, Anthropic said it had identified the cause and was working on a fix. Its latest update, posted at 06:42 UTC, says the company is still working to resolve the issue. The status page does not yet provide a recovery time or a technical explanation. The distinction matters. "529 Overloaded" describes what at least some users are seeing, but Anthropic has not said that overload is the root cause of the wider incident. For now, the public record establishes elevated errors across several models and products, not why they occurred. Claude's busy August This is not the first Claude service problem this month. Anthropic's status history includes a degraded-performance incident affecting multiple models on 18 August, followed by another incident involving Opus 5 and Haiku 4.5 on 19 August. A separate disruption affecting multiple models was reported on 20 August. Independent coverage has also documented the latest interruption. Frandroid reported that some users could not access Anthropic's models and that the company had identified the problem. Online discussions on Hacker News and other forums show users posting the same 529 error while trying to use Claude. Those reports do not establish the scale of the outage. They do show how quickly an infrastructure issue becomes visible: in a broken chat request, a failed coding session, or an API call that needs to be retried. The cost of shared infrastructure Claude is no longer one product. It is a family of models exposed through consumer chat, developer tools, an API, and Cowork. When several surfaces fail together, users do not experience separate incidents. They experience one unavailable dependency. That is the more important story here. Anthropic has identified the cause, but it has not yet explained whether the problem sits in a shared service, model routing, capacity, or another part of the stack. Any of those explanations would be speculation at this stage. The fix is still being monitored. Until Anthropic publishes more detail, the question is not simply when Claude comes back. It is whether users can build on it without treating failure as part of the interface.

Claude down today: Users report issues as Downdetector shows big spike. Here's latest update

Claude AI users reported widespread service issues on Sunday night, with Downdetector showing a sharp rise in complaints involving Claude Code, Claude Chat and the app. Anthropic acknowledged the disruption and said engineers were working to restore normal service. Users reported widespread service disruption on Anthropic's Claude AI platforms today. Several users reported trouble accessing the chatbot, Claude Code and other services. Reports on Downdetector rose sharply as people complained about failed access, slow responses and other technical problems. The outage appeared to affect several parts of Anthropic's AI ecosystem rather than being limited to the main Claude chatbot. Claude Code among services facing problemsDowndetector data showed that Claude Code accounted for the largest share of user complaints, at 41%. Claude Chat followed with 31%, while 19% of reports were linked to problems with the app. Some users also reported difficulty logging in, website errors and unusually high latency while trying to use Claude. The reports quickly spread across social media as users tried to determine whether the problem was limited to individual accounts or was affecting the wider service. Anthropic acknowledges Claude disruptionAnthropic confirmed that it was aware of the issue through its service status page. The company said it had identified the cause of the disruption and that its engineers were working to bring services back to normal. However, Anthropic had not provided a specific timeline for complete restoration when the reports emerged. That left users waiting for further updates as the company worked to resolve the incident. Claude API and Cowork also affectedThe disruption was not confined to Claude.ai. Posts on X and user reports suggested that several Anthropic products were experiencing degraded performance. Technology commentator Alex Getman said Claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code and Claude for Workspaces, also known as Cowork, were all facing performance problems. For developers and businesses that rely on Anthropic's API or workplace tools, such an outage can have a wider impact than a temporary problem with the consumer chatbot. Claude Code is also used by developers for programming-related tasks, making service interruptions particularly noticeable for users working on active projects. As Anthropic continued its recovery efforts, users were advised to follow the company's service-status updates for the latest information on the outage.

Claude down: Thousands of users facing issues with Anthropic's AI platform

On Claude's status page, Anthropic has acknowledged the outage. Claude down: Anthropic's Claude AI is currently facing an outage globally, including in India. On Downdetector, an online outage monitoring platform, more than 1,300 users in the US have reported problems with the AI service. Meanwhile, in India, there are over 180 reports. Most users, around 55 per cent, say they are struggling to use Claude Code, while 21 per cent reported issues with Claude Chat. The remaining 14 per cent reported facing issues with the app. According to Downdetector, the reports of the outage started appearing at around 10:00 AM in India. As expected, Claude users head to X (formerly Twitter) to share their frustrations and look out for updates. While one user posted, "Claude is down. Let's call it a day!," another wrote, "Claude is down! API error 429 overloaded service side issues has been happening more frequently lately." Also read: Sam Altman says he expected faster AI disruption after GPT 4, admits he was wrong The company is yet to share an official statement regarding the outage. For now, Claude users will just have to wait for Anthropic to identify the issue and fix it. Update: Anthropic has acknowledged the issue. On Claude's status page, the company has posted, "We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and other Claude models and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible."