Anthropic experienced elevated error rates across claude.ai and api.anthropic.com for approximately 2.1 hours on June 16, 2026. During the first phase, all Sonnet and Opus models saw ~10% error rates; the second phase saw Opus 4.8 continue at ~10% errors after a partial fix was applied. The incident was fully resolved by 12:20 PT following a second fix.
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The incident has now been resolved. We had two phases:
* between 10:23 PT / 17:23 UTC to 11:00 PT / 18:00 UTC -- all Sonnet and Opus models were affected, reaching an error rate of around 10%
* after 11:00 PT / 18:00 UTC and until 12:20 PT / 19:20 UTC -- Opus 4.8 had an average error rate of 10%
The incident is now resolved.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
We are continuing to work to resolve an elevated rate of errors on requests to Claude Opus 4.8, and will provide an additional update as soon as possible.
We are still seeing errors on Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
We are currently investigating this issue.
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