If you tried using Claude this morning, you probably ran into issues. Whether you were talking to the chatbot or using Claude Code for a project, you may have experienced interruptions or a complete lack of response. It's not just you; Claude is currently down.
This doesn't appear to be an isolated event impacting a small group of users. According to Anthorpic's status page for Claude, there are "elevated errors on many Claude models." Anthropic issued the status update at 15:19 UTC (11:19 a.m. ET), confirming the company is currently investigating the situation. Scrolling through the list of Claude services, I can see that Claude Console and Claude for Government are "operational, " but claude.ai, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork are all experiencing partial outages.
Users are feeling the pain. As of this article, Downdetector shows over 3,000 user reports about issues with Claude, and I only expect those to increase as the outage continues. (Disclosure: Lifehacker's parent company, Ziff Davis, owns Downdector.) Users in the Downdetector comments confirm their experiences with downtime, though many are making light of the situation. One user wrote, "Here we go again," implying they're a bit used to Claude's service interruptions. Indeed, I covered a Claude outage back in March.
What do you think so far?
In an update to the status page, Anthropic shared that it identified the issue and is now working on a fix. The company says both Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.8 are currently affected, while other models should be operational. Anthropic will likely get Claude back up and running shortly, though, depending on the cause of the issue, some of us may be without the AI and its tools for part of the workday.
