Incident archive

Claude outage October 24, 2026

Elevated errors for Claude Opus 5.5

Claude claude.ai was down for 6 min on October 24, 2026.

Claude recorded a major-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on October 24, 2026. It ran for 6 min — 1 h 1 min shorter than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.

Started
October 24, 2026, 00:31 UTC
Resolved
October 24, 2026, 00:37 UTC
Duration
6 min
Impact
Major

What was affected?

How long did it last?

  1. October 24, 2026, 00:31 UTCinvestigatingT+0
  2. October 24, 2026, 00:37 UTCresolvedT+6 min

Has this happened before?

This was incident 9 of 16 recorded in October 2026, totalling 172 h 2 min of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. claude.ai was affected by 6 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on October 23, 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 .