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Anthropic's Claude Services Experience Elevated Error Rates

Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API are experiencing degraded performance and error spikes.

By The Downtime ยท Sep 29, 2026 ยท 2:33 PM ยทUpdated 2 weeks ago

Anthropic is investigating elevated error rates across Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and its Claude API platform. The incident is classified as major. Users are reporting failed requests, errors loading or sending conversations, and unexpected sign-in prompts; retrying may succeed.

Anthropicis the creator of Claude, an AI assistant used by millions of developers and end users for conversational tasks, coding, and document analysis.

The company began investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. It has not yet disclosed a cause or estimated resolution time.

This is a developing story. The Downtime will update as Anthropic provides more information.

๐Ÿ•’ Live updates (8)

resolved Sep 29, 4:27 PM

The issue affecting Claude.ai, the Claude desktop and mobile apps, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API has been resolved, and services have been operating normally since recovery. Impact occurred from 07:00 PT / 14:00 UTC to 07:59 PT / 14:59 UTC.

monitoring Sep 29, 3:30 PM

All services have been operating normally since 14:59 UTC. We are continuing to monitor.

monitoring Sep 29, 3:11 PM

Most services have recovered as of 14:59 UTC. Signing in, starting new chats, voice conversations, Claude Code and Cowork sessions, purchases and file uploads are working again. Some messages sent between 14:00 and 14:59 UTC may not have been saved. We are monitoring closely and will post another update within 30 minutes.

investigating Sep 29, 3:00 PM

The errors that began at 14:00 UTC were mitigated at 14:36 UTC, and existing conversations are mostly working again. A second issue is preventing many users from signing in (single sign-on and Sign in with Apple are unavailable), starting new chats, voice conversations and Claude Code or Cowork sessions, making purchases, and uploading files. If you're signed in, please don't sign out. We're working on a fix and will post another update within 30 minutes.

investigating Sep 29, 2:41 PM

We have applied a mitigation and error rates have dropped substantially. Some sign-in attempts, account actions and Claude Code and Cowork sessions are still failing. We are continuing to work on a full fix.

investigating Sep 29, 2:30 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

investigating Sep 29, 2:28 PM

We are investigating elevated error rates affecting Claude.ai (including the desktop and mobile apps), Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Some requests to the Claude API are also returning errors. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

investigating Sep 29, 2:21 PM

We are investigating elevated error rates affecting Claude.ai (including the desktop and mobile apps), Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Users may see failed requests, errors loading or sending conversations, or be asked to sign in again; retrying may succeed. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

๐Ÿ“Ž Sources

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