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Outage in Anthropic

Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

Resolved Major
April 28, 2026 - Started 1 day ago - Lasted about 2 hours
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Summary AI Generated

Anthropic experienced a major service outage that prevented users from accessing Claude.ai and caused elevated authentication errors on the API and console services. The incident affected all primary user-facing components including the main website, developer console, and API endpoints for 1.6 hours from 17:34–18:52 UTC on April 28th. The issue was identified as authentication-related problems and was fully resolved with all services returning to normal operation.

We are investigating an issue preventing users from reaching Claude.ai, and will provide an update as soon as possible.

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RESOLVED 1 day ago - at 04/28/2026 07:15PM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING 1 day ago - at 04/28/2026 06:59PM

We are seeing success rates across all services return to normal, and are monitoring closely to prevent any further issues. Impact occurred from 17:34–18:52 UTC.

IDENTIFIED 1 day ago - at 04/28/2026 06:33PM

We are continuing to work to resolve the issues preventing users from accessing Claude.ai, and causing elevated authentication errors for requests to the API and Claude Code.

IDENTIFIED 1 day ago - at 04/28/2026 05:51PM

We have identified an issue resulting in elevated errors on the Anthropic API, as well as issues accessing Claude.ai, including log-in paths for Claude Code. We are working to resolve these issues, and will provide an update as soon as possible.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 04/28/2026 05:41PM

We are investigating an issue preventing users from reaching Claude.ai, and will provide an update as soon as possible.

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