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Claude outage July 30, 2026

Elevated errors across many models

Claude claude.ai was down for 4 h 51 min on July 30, 2026.

Claude recorded a major-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on July 30, 2026. It ran for 4 h 51 min — 4.3× the archive median of 1 h 7 min.

Started
July 30, 2026, 05:57 UTC
Resolved
July 30, 2026, 10:48 UTC
Duration
4 h 51 min
Impact
Major

What was affected?

How long did it last?

  1. July 30, 2026, 05:57 UTCinvestigatingT+0
  2. July 30, 2026, 06:26 UTCidentifiedT+29 min
  3. July 30, 2026, 07:33 UTCidentifiedT+1 h 36 min
  4. July 30, 2026, 08:06 UTCidentifiedT+2 h 9 min
  5. July 30, 2026, 08:33 UTCidentifiedT+2 h 36 min
  6. July 30, 2026, 10:03 UTCmonitoringT+4 h 6 min
  7. July 30, 2026, 10:23 UTCmonitoringT+4 h 25 min
  8. July 30, 2026, 10:48 UTCresolvedT+4 h 51 min

Has this happened before?

This was incident 36 of 38 recorded in July 2026, totalling 113 h of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. claude.ai was affected by 27 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on July 27, 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 .