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Claude outage July 16, 2026

Elevated errors for multiple models

Claude services was down for 4 h 16 min on July 16, 2026.

Claude recorded a major-impact incident affecting Claude services on July 16, 2026. It ran for 4 h 16 min — 3.8× the archive median of 1 h 7 min.

Started
July 16, 2026, 18:36 UTC
Resolved
July 16, 2026, 22:53 UTC
Duration
4 h 16 min
Impact
Major

How long did it last?

  1. July 16, 2026, 18:36 UTCinvestigatingT+0
  2. July 16, 2026, 19:14 UTCidentifiedT+37 min
  3. July 16, 2026, 20:07 UTCidentifiedT+1 h 31 min
  4. July 16, 2026, 20:58 UTCidentifiedT+2 h 22 min
  5. July 16, 2026, 22:01 UTCmonitoringT+3 h 25 min
  6. July 16, 2026, 22:53 UTCresolvedT+4 h 16 min

Has this happened before?

This was incident 6 of 38 recorded in July 2026, totalling 113 h of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. Across the 73 resolved incidents in the archive, the median duration is 1 h 7 min; this one lasted 4 h 16 min. 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 .