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Anthropic's Claude.ai and API suffer major outage, disrupting users

By PulseAugur Editorial · [12 sources] ·

Anthropic experienced a significant outage on April 28, 2026, affecting Claude.ai and its API, including Claude Code. The incident, which began around 17:41 UTC and was resolved by 18:52 UTC, caused elevated errors and prevented users from accessing services. Users reported disruptions to their workflows, with some noting the outage occurred at critical times like before demos. AI

IMPACT Service disruptions for Claude.ai and its API can halt workflows for users relying on it for coding and other tasks.

RANK_REASON This is a report of a service outage for an existing AI product, not a new release or significant industry event.

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Anthropic's Claude.ai and API suffer major outage, disrupting users

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COVERAGE [12]

  1. Hacker News — AI stories ≥50 points TIER_1 (CA) · rob ·

    Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

  2. HN — claude-code stories TIER_1 (CY) · zh_code ·

    Claude.ai down again?

  3. Hacker News — AI stories ≥50 points TIER_1 English(EN) · shorsher ·

    Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

  4. dev.to — Anthropic tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Gabriel Anhaia ·

    The 7 Anthropic API Errors That Mean Different Things in Production

    <ul> <li> <strong>Book:</strong> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYJZ2XJD" rel="noopener noreferrer">AI Agents Pocket Guide: Patterns for Building Autonomous Systems with LLMs</a> </li> <li> <strong>Also by me:</strong> <em>Thinking in Go</em> (2-book series) — <a href="http…

  5. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Claude.ai and API Unavailable https:// status.claude.com/incidents/2g f1jpyty350 # ai

    Claude.ai and API Unavailable https:// status.claude.com/incidents/2g f1jpyty350 # ai

  6. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Claude.ai and API Unavailable https:// status.claude.com/incidents/2g f1jpyty350 # HackerNews # ClaudeAI # API # Status # Incident # AI # Technology # Downtime

    Claude.ai and API Unavailable https:// status.claude.com/incidents/2g f1jpyty350 # HackerNews # ClaudeAI # API # Status # Incident # AI # Technology # Downtime # APIOutage

  7. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Varder ·

    Anyone know if this use case would be against Anthropic TOS?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey all, </p> <p>Sorry if wrong place to post this. I was toying with some ideas in Claude Code earlier today, and have a build a dashboard which easily shows my token usage and model breakdown. I also added a way to track processes and their usa…

  8. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Claude.ai and API Unavailable https://status.claude.com/incidents/2gf1jpyty350 # HackerNews # Tech # AI

    Claude.ai and API Unavailable https://status.claude.com/incidents/2gf1jpyty350 # HackerNews # Tech # AI

    LINKS status.claude.com/…/2gf1jpyty350
  9. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Claude.ai Down Again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956890 # HackerNews # Tech # AI

    Claude.ai Down Again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956890 # HackerNews # Tech # AI

  10. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 (CA) · CuratedHackerNews ·

    Claude.ai is unavailable https://status.claude.com/incidents/9l93x2ht4s5w #ai

    Claude.ai is unavailable https:// status.claude.com/incidents/9l 93x2ht4s5w # ai

  11. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · h4ckernews ·

    Claude.ai is unavailable https:// status.claude.com/incidents/9l 93x2ht4s5w # HackerNews # ClaudeAI # Down # AI # Status # Update # Tech # News # ServiceOutage

    Claude.ai is unavailable https:// status.claude.com/incidents/9l 93x2ht4s5w # HackerNews # ClaudeAI # Down # AI # Status # Update # Tech # News # ServiceOutage

  12. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Claude.ai is unavailable https://status.claude.com/incidents/9l93x2ht4s5w # HackerNews # Tech # AI

    Claude.ai is unavailable https://status.claude.com/incidents/9l93x2ht4s5w # HackerNews # Tech # AI

    LINKS status.claude.com/…/9l93x2ht4s5w

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