Anthropic reported a service outage earlier this afternoon that impacted its APIs, Console, and Claude AI. Users on GitHub and Hacker News first began noting issues with Claude at around 12:20 PM ET.
Anthropic released a status update eight minutes later, confirming that its APIs, Console, and Claude AI were indeed down. At press time, the company stated it had implemented several fixes and was monitoring the results.
An Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch, “We’re aware of a very brief outage of our API today shortly before 9:30am PT. Service was quickly restored.”
Anthropic has experienced errors and bugs on its platform before and has dealt with several issues over the past few months, particularly concerning Claude and its models.
As users awaited the system’s reboot, some made light of the situation. One user on GitHub commented on how the software engineering community was now twiddling its thumbs. Another user on Hacker News quoted a sentiment from a previous outage, stating, “Nooooo I’m going to have to use my brain again and write 100% of my code like a caveman from December 2024.”