Anthropic’s Claude faces major outage till date, services disrupted for nearly five hours

Anthropic’s Claude AI experienced a major outage on Friday, resulting in a service disruption that lasted nearly five hours, one of the longest incidents reported for the platform to date.

Users reported widespread issues with the Claude API and models such as Opus 4.6. However, Claude for Government services remained largely unaffected.

According to outage tracker Downdetector, user reports surged past 100 around 2:20 pm IST, with another peak observed at 5:05 pm IST. The disruption continued until approximately 8 pm IST.


Anthropic's Claude outage

A breakdown of reported issues showed that Claude Chat accounted for 50% of complaints, followed by the app at 21% and Claude Code at 20%.

Anthropic acknowledged the outage, stating that as of 6:40 pm PT, error rates had returned to baseline levels, while monitoring efforts were ongoing.

The company added that issues with Sonnet 4.6 were resolved by 5:00 pm PT, while work was still underway to address problems with Opus 4.6, which recorded an error rate of around 0.4%.

This marks the second outage affecting Anthropic’s Claude within a week.

Netizens react

Users took to X to share their experiences of disruption, with many reporting error messages such as:

“Taking longer than usual. Trying again shortly.”


Another user took to X, taking a dig at Anthropic's idea of “vibe coding.”


One user took to X, sharing how the outage affected their work.


Others questioned if Anthropic could sustain its growing user base.