Is Claude down today?

Check the status badge at the top of this page for the current status. Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes and cross-references with user reports to give you the most accurate picture.

How often does Claude go down?

Based on our 90-day data, we've detected 131 incidents, of which 37 were major or critical. The median resolution time is 59m.

How are outages detected?

Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes from multiple global locations. Crowdsourced user reports provide an additional early-warning signal, often surfacing issues before the official monitors catch them.

Is it down for everyone or just me?

The outage map and region breakdown help answer this. If reports are concentrated in one area it may be regional; if hotspots appear globally it's a widespread outage. Submit your own report to help others understand the scope.

What does "never acknowledged" mean?

"Never acknowledged" means Pulsetic detected a real service disruption, confirmed by multiple user reports, but the official status page never posted an incident for it. This is one of the core reasons teams use third-party monitoring alongside official status pages.

MAJOR OUTAGE DETECTED

Claude is currently
experiencing a major outage.

Pulsetic detects outages before the provider officially reports them. Monitoring since Apr 2026 · 205 incidents caught

Last checked: 1 min ago · 144 user reports (24h) · Trusted by 30,000+ teams

MAJOR · INVESTIGATING

Service disruption on Claude services

Started 2 days ago · Aug 16, 2026 · 10:07 PM UTC

We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai and platform.claude.com. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

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User Reports: Last 24 Hours
144 reports

Bars represent 20-min intervals. Occasional spikes may reflect individual issues, not widespread outages.

Outage Map
144 reports (24h)

Reports by region (last 24h)

Asia 45 (31%) Europe 45 (31%) North America 38 (26%) South America 8 (6%) Africa 6 (4%) Oceania 2 (1%)

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Recent User Reports
Live

Latest 50 reports from the last 48 hours

Top reported issues

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Service outage 99

Timeouts / no response 52

API errors 11

Error messages 6

Degraded performance 4

Feature not working 4

Network / connectivity issues 3

Billing or usage issues 1

Authentication issues 0

Other 0

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Issue breakdown
180 total votes

Distribution of reported issues over the last 24 hours.

Service outage 55%

Timeouts / no response 29%

API errors 6%

Error messages 3%

Degraded performance 2%

Feature not working 2%

Network / connectivity issues 2%

Billing or usage issues 1%

Authentication issues 0%

Other 0%

Last 90 days

90-Day Health Summary

Total Incidents

131

Since Apr 2026
Major / Critical

37

37 high-impact incidents
Minor Incidents

94

Avg. 1.0 per day
Median Resolution

59m

P95: 6h 32m

Claude Response Time, ms

By Continent

Location List

From official status page

Recent Outage History

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Incident	Started	Duration	Impact	Status	Link
Degraded performance for multiple models	Aug 18, 2026 · 4:20 PM	2h 41m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5	Aug 17, 2026 · 1:56 PM	1h 32m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Service disruption on Claude services	Aug 16, 2026 · 10:07 PM	Ongoing	Major	Investigating	Details →
Service disruption on Claude services	Aug 16, 2026 · 9:58 PM	35m	Critical	Resolved	Details →
Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5	Aug 14, 2026 · 11:57 PM	30m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Service disruption on Claude services	Aug 14, 2026 · 8:30 PM	1h 27m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Issues reaching status.claude.com	Aug 14, 2026 · 7:58 AM	2h 55m	None	Resolved	Details →
Service disruption on Claude Code on the web and related services	Aug 14, 2026 · 12:36 AM	14m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
Elevated errors for Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Sonnet 5	Aug 13, 2026 · 2:33 PM	1h 34m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Degraded performance for multiple models	Aug 12, 2026 · 1:50 PM	4h 16m	Minor	Resolved	Details →

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Common questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Claude down today?

Check the status badge at the top of this page for the current status. Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes and cross-references with user reports to give you the most accurate picture.
How often does Claude go down?

Based on our 90-day data, we've detected 131 incidents, of which 37 were major or critical. The median resolution time is 59m.
How are outages detected?

Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes from multiple global locations. Crowdsourced user reports provide an additional early-warning signal, often surfacing issues before the official monitors catch them.
Is it down for everyone or just me?

The outage map and region breakdown help answer this. If reports are concentrated in one area it may be regional; if hotspots appear globally it's a widespread outage. Submit your own report to help others understand the scope.
What does "never acknowledged" mean?

"Never acknowledged" means Pulsetic detected a real service disruption, confirmed by multiple user reports, but the official status page never posted an incident for it. This is one of the core reasons teams use third-party monitoring alongside official status pages.