Claude outage August 24, 2026
Elevated errors for multiple models
Claude claude.ai was down for 3 h 24 min on August 24, 2026.
Claude recorded a major-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on August 24, 2026. It ran for 3 h 24 min — 3× the archive median of 1 h 7 min.
- Started
- August 24, 2026, 05:06 UTC
- Resolved
- August 24, 2026, 08:30 UTC
- Duration
- 3 h 24 min
- Impact
- Major
What was affected?
How long did it last?
- August 24, 2026, 05:06 UTCinvestigatingT+0
- August 24, 2026, 05:27 UTCidentifiedT+21 min
- August 24, 2026, 06:42 UTCidentifiedT+1 h 36 min
- August 24, 2026, 07:47 UTCidentifiedT+2 h 41 min
- August 24, 2026, 08:30 UTCresolvedT+3 h 24 min
Has this happened before?
This was incident 21 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 25 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on August 20, 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 .