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Anthropic Resolves Claude Chatbot and API Errors After Morning Outage

Anthropic reported elevated error rates across its Claude chatbot, application programming interface, and Claude Code on Wednesday. The company began investigating at 10:53 a.m. ET and stated it is working to fully resolve the issue. User reports on Downdetector peaked at around 6,000 before declining.

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# Anthropic Resolves Claude Chatbot and API Errors After Morning Outage Anthropic experienced elevated error rates across its Claude chatbot, its application programming interface, and Claude Code, according to the company's status page. m. ET.

All systems at Anthropic are operational as of an unspecified time on Wednesday, per the status page. Anthropic stated it is working to fully resolve the issue. The company has seen success rates for logins to its chatbot stabilize, according to Anthropic.

com reported these details.

User Reports Fluctuate on Downdetector Roughly 6,000 users were reporting issues with Claude on Downdetector at 10:42 a.

m. ET. m. ET, roughly 2,000 users were reporting issues. m. ET.

Background on Anthropic and Claude Anthropic develops a family of artificial intelligence models called Claude.

Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of researchers and executives who defected from OpenAI. Anthropic was valued at $380 billion as of February. Anthropic's products, particularly Claude Code, have increased in popularity over the last year.

Anthropic is in competition for enterprise market share against Google and OpenAI. OpenAI was valued at $850 billion in its latest fundraising round in late March.

Story Timeline

5 events
  1. Wednesday, unspecified time

    All systems at Anthropic are operational.

    1 sourceAnthropic status page
  2. 1:34 p.m. ET

    Around 500 users reporting issues with Claude on Downdetector.

    1 sourceDowndetector
  3. 1:12 p.m. ET

    Roughly 2,000 users reporting issues with Claude on Downdetector.

    1 sourceDowndetector
  4. 10:53 a.m. ET

    Anthropic begins investigating errors.

    1 sourceAnthropic
  5. 10:42 a.m. ET

    Roughly 6,000 users reporting issues with Claude on Downdetector.

    1 sourceDowndetector

Potential Impact

  1. 01

    Temporary disruption to Claude users during peak hours.

  2. 02

    Stabilized login success rates post-resolution.

  3. 03

    No reported long-term effects on Anthropic's market position.

  4. 04

    Potential minor delay in enterprise AI tasks relying on Claude.

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Word count192 words
PublishedApr 15, 2026, 5:57 PM

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