Incident archive

Claude outage July 31, 2026

Degraded performance on Claude Sonnet 5

Claude claude.ai was degraded for 47 min on July 31, 2026.

Claude recorded a minor-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on July 31, 2026. It ran for 47 min — 20 min shorter than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.

Started
July 31, 2026, 06:18 UTC
Resolved
July 31, 2026, 07:04 UTC
Duration
47 min
Impact
Minor

What was affected?

How long did it last?

  1. July 31, 2026, 06:18 UTCinvestigatingT+0
  2. July 31, 2026, 07:04 UTCresolvedT+47 min

Has this happened before?

This was incident 38 of 38 recorded in July 2026, totalling 113 h of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. claude.ai was affected by 29 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on July 30, 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 .