Claude outage August 5, 2026
Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5
Claude claude.ai was degraded for 43 min on August 5, 2026.
Claude recorded a minor-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on August 5, 2026. It ran for 43 min — 24 min shorter than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.
- Started
- August 5, 2026, 13:51 UTC
- Resolved
- August 5, 2026, 14:34 UTC
- Duration
- 43 min
- Impact
- Minor
What was affected?
How long did it last?
- August 5, 2026, 13:51 UTCidentifiedT+0
- August 5, 2026, 14:34 UTCresolvedT+43 min
Has this happened before?
This was incident 7 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 35 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on August 5, 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 .