Claude is down for many —Anthropic says it's 'investigating' the outage

The increasingly popular AI assistant Claude has gone down for many today, with Anthropic confirming that it's "investigating" an issue.

The problems started at around 10.02am ET / 3.02pm BST, when a spike in reports appeared on Downdetector. At the time of writing, those reports are still climbing and have hit over 8.000 in the US.

The Claude Status page has confirmed a "elevated error rate" across models, but says "a fix is being implemented". Here's the latest news on Claude's issues today...

Lots of red is never a good sign

This is the current situation on Anthropic's Status Page for Claude — there's good and bad news.

While there are indeed "elevated error rates" across "multiple models" on Claude, as I've also experienced, it seems the company has already got a fix in the pipeline.

Let's hope that means it gets resolved as quickly as the last outage we saw on June 2...

Problems across all models

Today's Claude issues aren't restricted to just one model unfortunately — we're seeing issues across all models, and on both paid and free accounts.

Right now, Claude is either "contemplating" its answers indefinitely or telling us "this model isn't available right now". According to Downdetector, the issue is also affecting both the chat interface and Claude Code.

Is the fix working?

It's early days, but today's reported Claude issues have just taken a small dip on Downdetector — they're still high at over 6,000 in the US at the time of writing, but that's down from a high of 7,119 just over half an hour ago.

Hopefully, that's the work of Anthropic's engineers, with the latest post in Claude's Status page stating that "the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented".

It still isn't working for me, but the signs are promising that it'll spring back into life soon...

This looks more worrying

While reports of Claude issues on Downdetector have dropped slightly in the last half an hour, they're still very high — and Anthropic's status page (above) is showing a "major outage" across all of its platforms, except Claude for Government.

That means Claude's chat interface, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and its API are all having issues right now, which makes this is a pretty broad outage affecting many.

Seeking solace in memes

Some Claude models are down, and I hope you aren’t too from r/ClaudeAI

As the Claude issues continue for many, Reddit is responding the only way it knows how — with comforting memes.

The could be promising news on the horizon, though — Anthropic's latest post on the Claude Status page (at 10.53am ET / 3.53pm BST) says that "a fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results".

That often means a swift improvement, but can also be a false dawn, so I'm keeping a close eye on my account in the hope that it'll be the former.

We're well over the hour mark

Claude is still very much down for me and thousands of others — and it's now well over an hour since the problems started at around 10.53am ET / 2.53pm BST.

The latest from Anthropic's status page is still that "a fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results'. So far that hasn't been reflected in the numbers, but in theory we should see an improvement pretty soon.