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Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6

Partial outage Lasted 9h 47m · started · Anthropic's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
claude.ai, Claude Console (platform.claude.com), Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude for Government
Down Index
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What to do

  • Check whether you use Anthropic claude.ai, Claude Console (platform.claude.com), Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code and 1 more. Check your stack

    Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 9h 47m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-03-27 06:59 UTC and 2026-03-27 16:46 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Anthropic 7

  1. investigating

    We are currently investigating this issue.

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  2. investigating

    We are continuing to investigate the ongoing incident.

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  3. investigating

    Sonnet 4.6 is also showing elevated errors.

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  4. investigating

    As of 5:00 PT / 12:00 UTC Sonnet 4.6 is now healthy. We are still working to fix Opus 4.6.

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  5. identified

    We have mitigated the main issue and the error rate for Opus 4.6 is hovering around 0.4% which is still high, but much better than the performance during the previous hours. We are waiting for a more permanent fix to land in the near future.

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  6. monitoring

    As of 6:40 PT / 13:40 UTC our error rate has returned to the baseline. We are still monitoring the current situation.

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  7. resolved

    This incident has been mitigated as of 9:30 PT / 16:30 UTC.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-9c9ce2719b

Is Anthropic still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-03-27 16:46 UTC. For Anthropic's live state, see https://down.guide/anthropic.

How long did it last?

9h 47m, from 2026-03-27 06:59 UTC to 2026-03-27 16:46 UTC, by the times Anthropic posted.

What was affected?

Anthropic named claude.ai, Claude Console (platform.claude.com), Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code and 1 more.

What caused it?

Anthropic hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Anthropic's official status page, https://status.claude.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.