Incident archive

Claude outage August 3, 2026

Degraded performance on Claude Sonnet 5

Claude claude.ai was degraded for 15 min on August 3, 2026.

Claude recorded a minor-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on August 3, 2026. It ran for 15 min — 52 min shorter than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.

Started
August 3, 2026, 15:13 UTC
Resolved
August 3, 2026, 15:29 UTC
Duration
15 min
Impact
Minor

What was affected?

How long did it last?

  1. August 3, 2026, 15:13 UTCinvestigatingT+0
  2. August 3, 2026, 15:29 UTCresolvedT+15 min

Has this happened before?

This was incident 2 of 26 recorded in August 2026, totalling 38 h 15 min of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. claude.ai was affected by 31 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on August 3, 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 .