Claude's API and claude.ai suffered repeated outages this summer, with uptime dipping to 99% in July
Anthropic Claude and API service outages
Anthropic's status page for Claude reveals a rocky summer: claude.ai and the Claude API experienced multiple incidents, with monthly uptime falling to 99.01% in July 2026. The page lists incident history and uptime percentages, showing that even leading AI services struggle with reliability.
July 2026: 99.01% uptime
- tvbusy
"Coding is solved", how ironic.
- dannyw
Great reminder to be using multiple providers (i.e. Anthropic 1P, Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure) with auto-fallback.
Bedrock has been fine throughout today; just pick two providers and you have much more stable Claude :)
Also, sometimes older models work fine, Opus 4.8/4.6/4.5 are worth trying.
- virajk_31
I really love using Claude, but running its API in production was a constant headache (they hv most horrible status graph), switched to Gemini and didn't hit any major downtime since...
- rvz
One of the Anthropic salesmen told everyone to use loops all over the place, auto mode and use Fable 5 and Opus 5 with multiple sub agents.
Then it seems they forgot about their own infrastructure which goes down once every two weeks.
Looks like most of all the engineering knowledge that was needed at Google was lost after the whole org at Anthropic is now vibing their work.
Rather than screaming “coding is solved!”, “AGI with a month” and spooking everyone with the bogus mysticism of “Mythos” which now everyone has an equivalent strong cyber model, maybe keep the lights on first before plotting the next doomsday story.
- indrex
How they go down globally? All regions use the same infra?