Claude outage July 16, 2026
Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 5
Claude claude.ai was degraded for 15 min on July 16, 2026.
Claude recorded a minor-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude Console (platform.claude.com), Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on July 16, 2026. It ran for 15 min — 52 min shorter than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.
- Started
- July 16, 2026, 08:39 UTC
- Resolved
- July 16, 2026, 08:53 UTC
- Duration
- 15 min
- Impact
- Minor
What was affected?
How long did it last?
- July 16, 2026, 08:39 UTCinvestigatingT+0
- July 16, 2026, 08:53 UTCresolvedT+15 min
Has this happened before?
This was incident 3 of 38 recorded in July 2026, totalling 113 h of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. claude.ai was affected by 2 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on July 15, 2026. These comparisons are drawn from our archive, which starts on July 14, 2026. See the full outage history.
Summarized by Claude Network from Claude Status. Last verified .