Anthropic suffered a worldwide service disruption that knocked Claude offline across its web interface and API-dependent services, causing failed prompts, slow responses, interrupted conversations, and widespread 529 Overloaded errors. The incident affected multiple Claude models and began around 19:45 UTC, with Anthropic stating on its status page that it started investigating shortly afterward and had identified the issue by 20:33 UTC.
Elevated error rates continued until about 21:26 UTC, and Anthropic later declared the incident resolved at 22:36 UTC after monitoring recovery across most models. The company did not disclose a root cause or estimated recovery details during the outage, but the error pattern pointed to temporary overload, backend capacity constraints, or related service issues that also disrupted tools and workflows built on the Claude API.

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After monitoring recovery, Anthropic marked the incident resolved at 22:36 UTC. The outage had disrupted both direct Claude usage and dependent API services worldwide.
The period of elevated error rates lasted until 21:26 UTC, after which Anthropic reported recovery across most affected Claude models and services.
By 20:33 UTC, Anthropic reported that it had identified the issue behind the outage and was working on remediation. The company did not disclose the root cause.
Anthropic said it began investigating the incident at 19:49 UTC as users encountered elevated errors across Claude and tools relying on the Claude API.
Anthropic's Claude platform experienced a worldwide disruption that caused failed prompts, slow responses, interrupted conversations, and "529 Overloaded" errors across multiple models, affecting both the web interface and API-dependent services. Elevated error rates began around 19:45 UTC on July 29, 2026.
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