Anthropic reported a service outage impacting APIs, Console, and Claude earlier this afternoon.
Users on GitHub and Hacker News noted issues with Claude at around 12:20 ET, with Anthropic releasing a status update eight minutes later, noting that its APIs, Console, and Claude AI were down. As press time, the company said it had implemented several fixes and was monitoring the results. We’ve reached out to Anthropic for comment.
“We’re aware of a very brief outage of our API today shortly before 9:30am PT,” an Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch. “Service was quickly restored.”
Anthropic is no stranger to errors or bugs on its platform and has had some issues in the past few months, especially regarding Claude and its models.
As Claude users awaited its reboot, some joked about what they were supposed to do since the system was down. One user on GitHub wrote about how the software engineering community was now twiddling its thumbs, while another on Hacker News quoted what someone said last time something like this happened: “Nooooo I’m going to have to use my brain again and write 100% of my code like a caveman from December 2024.”
