Claude outage on 24 October 2026
Major outageAn email when it goes down, and when it’s back.
“Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1”
On 24 October, Claude had a major outage with elevated errors affecting claude.ai, Claude Code and Claude Cowork from 05:16 to 05:41 UTC, and the Claude API from 05:16 to 05:24 UTC. The status page incident was open from 05:16 to 05:53 UTC. Its final update said the impact actually ran from 05:00 to 05:35 UTC, and its updates said a cause had been identified and a fix deployed but did not say what the cause was. PointClickCare also reported a major outage of its senior care EHR service at the same time, starting at 04:37 UTC.
Claude’s own incident page ↗- When
- 05:18–05:54 UTC
- How long
- 36 min
- Incident open on its page
- 05:16–05:53 UTC
- Components affected
- 4
- Claude, 30 days before
- 4 other outages
What broke when
From Claude’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 46 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- claude.ai: partial outage
- Claude API (api.anthropic.com): partial outage
- Claude Code: partial outage
- Claude Cowork: partial outage
- Cause identified
- Claude API (api.anthropic.com): back to normal
- Fix in place, monitoring
- claude.ai: back to normal
- Claude Code: back to normal
- Claude Cowork: back to normal
- Resolved
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Claude’s official status page at status.claude.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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