Is Claude Down? Current Status and Outages
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Current Claude status
Claude is working normally
IsDown last checked Claude status on at . We've received 205 user reports in the past 24 hours.
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Monitoring since Oct 2025
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280 incidents caught
Claude service health over the last 24 hours
This chart shows the number of user-reported issues for Claude service health over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem. Sign up to get alerts when Claude is down.
Outage Map
See where users report Claude is down. The map shows recent Claude outages from around the world.
Top locations, last 24h:
- United States
- Germany
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Recent Claude outage reports
See what users report when Claude is down and how Claude outages affect them.
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🇺🇸 United States of America
outage with 500's on all calls.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland
API Error: 500 Internal server error. This is a server-side issue, usually temporary — try again in a moment. If it persists, check status.claude.com..
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🇺🇸 United States of America
scott - claude.app>code (macos): "API Error: 500 Internal server error. This is a server-side issue, usually temporary — try again in a moment. If it persists, check status.claude.com.".
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🇺🇸 United States of America
Geo - API Error: 500 Internal server error. This is a server-side issue, usually temporary — try again in a moment. If it persists, check status.claude.com..
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🇺🇸 United States of America
API Error API Error: 500 Internal server error. This is a server-side issue, usually temporary — try again in a moment. If it persists, check status.claude.com..
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🇩🇪 Germany
Christian - Claude Code: API Error: 500 Internal server error. This is a server-side issue, usually temporary — try again in a moment. If it persists, check status.claude.com. Appeared around 20:00 EST.
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🇧🇬 Bulgaria
API Error: 500 Internal server error. This is a server-side issue, usually temporary — try again in a moment. If it persists, check status.claude.com..
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🇩🇪 Germany
API Error: 500 Internal server error..
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🇺🇸 United States of America
Michelle - If you ever lose access to your email associated with your Claude.ai account you will lose your data and your account credits. - Logging into Claude requires a link sent to the users email address, there are no alternatives. - You cannot change your email address and Claude support will not hel....
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🇺🇸 United States of America
Getting Error: This isn't working right now. You can try again later.
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🇮🇶 Iraq
server is temp unavailable.
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🇨🇱 Chile
Claude is failing to connect from Chile..
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🇦🇺 Australia
not working at all using gpt 5.
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🇸🇬 Singapore
chat isn't loading, answer isn't generating.
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🇦🇺 Australia
Chris - Timing out and unresponsive.
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Claude Downtime Health — Last 90 Days
In the last 90 days, Claude had 137 incidents (46 major outages and 91 minor incidents) with a median duration of 1 hour 4 minutes.
137
Incidents
46
Major Outages
91
Minor Incidents
1
hour
Median Resolution
Recent Claude outages detected
Full incident reports for recent Claude outages, including timelines, affected components, and resolution details.
15 minutes
May 16, 2026 at 02:12 PM
Detected 6 minutes before
about 1 hour
Service outage due to server error
May 16, 2026 at 02:06 PM
about 2 hours
Service outage affecting Claude in VSCode
May 14, 2026 at 08:19 PM
Never acknowledged
32 minutes
May 13, 2026 at 07:28 AM
Detected 20 minutes before
about 1 hour
Claude service outage and connection issues
May 13, 2026 at 07:08 AM
37 minutes
Widespread service outage affecting users
May 13, 2026 at 01:10 AM
Never acknowledged
36 minutes
May 12, 2026 at 03:38 PM
Detected 1 minute before
| Title | IsDown detected At | Duration |
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We are currently investigating this issue.
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May 16, 2026 at 06:06 PM UTC
IsDown detected 6 minutes before official update
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15 minutes |
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Service outage affecting Claude in VSCode
Users report repeated '500 internal server error' across different uses of Claude in VSCode, sugg...
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May 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM UTC
Never acknowledged
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about 2 hours |
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We are currently investigating this issue.
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May 14, 2026 at 08:36 PM UTC
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about 2 hours |
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We are currently investigating this issue.
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May 13, 2026 at 12:23 PM UTC
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about 2 hours |
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We are currently investigating this issue.
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May 13, 2026 at 11:08 AM UTC
IsDown detected 20 minutes before official update
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32 minutes |
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Widespread service outage affecting users
Service down globally, including Las Vegas. Users can't login or access Claude, encountering erro...
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May 13, 2026 at 05:10 AM UTC
Never acknowledged
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37 minutes |
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The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
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May 12, 2026 at 11:42 PM UTC
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16 minutes |
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We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Haiku 4.5. We will prov...
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May 12, 2026 at 07:36 PM UTC
IsDown detected 1 minute before official update
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36 minutes |
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About Claude Status and Outage Monitoring
IsDown has monitored Claude continuously since October 2025. Over that time, we've documented 216 outages and incidents. When Claude goes down, incidents typically resolve within 197 minutes based on historical data.
To check if Claude is down, IsDown combines official status data with user reports for early detection. Vendors often delay acknowledging problems, so user reports help us alert you before the official announcement.
Engineering and operations teams rely on IsDown to track Claude status and receive verified outage alerts through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or 20+ other integrations.
How IsDown Monitors Claude
IsDown checks Claude's status page every few minutes. We combine official status data with user reports to detect when Claude is down, often before the vendor announces it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Claude down today?
Claude isn't down. You can check Claude status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Claude official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 2 outages reported.
What is the current Claude status?
Claude is currently operational. You can check Claude status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.
Is there a Claude outage now?
No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
Is Claude down today or just slow?
Currently there's no report of Claude being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
How are Claude outages detected?
IsDown monitors the Claude official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.
Is Claude having an outage right now?
Claude last outage was on May 16, 2026 with the title "Elevated error rates on requests to multiple models"
How often does Claude go down?
IsDown has tracked 217 Claude incidents since October 2025. When Claude goes down, incidents typically resolve within 195 minutes.
Is Claude down for everyone or just me?
Check the Claude status at the top of this page. IsDown combines official status page data with user reports to show whether Claude is down for everyone or if the issue is on your end.
How IsDown compares to DownDetector when monitoring Claude?
IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if Claude is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information instead of just relying on reports from users. The integration allows us to provide more details about Claude's Outages, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.
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