Claude outage August 14, 2026
Service disruption on Claude services
Claude Claude API (api.anthropic.com) was down for 1 h 28 min on August 14, 2026.
Claude recorded a major-impact incident affecting Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on August 14, 2026. It ran for 1 h 28 min — 21 min longer than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.
- Started
- August 14, 2026, 20:30 UTC
- Resolved
- August 14, 2026, 21:58 UTC
- Duration
- 1 h 28 min
- Impact
- Major
What was affected?
How long did it last?
- August 14, 2026, 20:30 UTCinvestigatingT+0
- August 14, 2026, 20:44 UTCidentifiedT+13 min
- August 14, 2026, 20:44 UTCmonitoringT+14 min
- August 14, 2026, 21:58 UTCresolvedT+1 h 28 min
Has this happened before?
This was incident 12 of 26 recorded in August 2026, totalling 38 h 15 min of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. Claude API (api.anthropic.com) was affected by 35 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching Claude API (api.anthropic.com) started on August 13, 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 .