Claude outage on 25 October 2026
Major outageAn email when it goes down, and when it’s back.
“Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1”
On 25 October, Claude had a major outage with elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5.1, affecting claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code and Claude Cowork. The incident was open from 08:17 to 08:49 UTC, but the status page's final update said impact occurred from 08:08 to 08:29 UTC. It said a cause had been identified and a fix deployed without saying what the cause was. Coinbase also had a minor issue with delayed Interac e-Transfer withdrawals at the same time.
Claude’s own incident page ↗- When
- 08:18–08:50 UTC
- How long
- 32 min
- Incident open on its page
- 08:17–08:49 UTC
- Components affected
- 4
- Claude, 30 days before
- 6 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 47 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
- Fix in place, monitoring
- claude.ai: back to normal
- Claude API (api.anthropic.com): 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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