Outage recap · Anthropic

Claude outage — October 7, 2026

On October 7, 2026, Claude had 2 reported incidents on Anthropic's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Elevated errors on platform.claude.com

major
Started
Oct 7, 9:25 AM EDT
Resolved
Oct 13, 2:00 PM EDT
Duration
148h 35m

Anthropic's updates (5)

  1. investigating · Oct 7, 9:25 AM EDT

    We are investigating elevated errors affecting usage data on the platform.claude.com Usage page and the Admin API usage report. Core functionality is not affected. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  2. investigating · Oct 7, 12:36 PM EDT

    We are continuing to work on elevated errors affecting usage data on the platform.claude.com Usage and Rate limits pages and the Admin API usage report. A mitigation for the Usage page and the Admin API usage report is rolling out; once it is in place, the most recent usage may take about 30 minutes to appear there. Core functionality is not affected.

  3. identified · Oct 7, 1:28 PM EDT

    We've identified the cause of errors loading usage data. The Admin API usage report has recovered, and fixes for the platform.claude.com Usage and Rate limits pages are in progress. The most recent 30 minutes of usage may be delayed. Core functionality is not affected.

  4. monitoring · Oct 7, 5:44 PM EDT

    We've mitigated the errors loading usage data on platform.claude.com and in the Admin API usage report. While we work on a full fix, the most recent ~30 minutes of usage may take longer to appear on the platform.claude.com. API requests are not affected, and we will provide additional updates here.

  5. resolved · Oct 13, 2:00 PM EDT

    This issue has been resolved.

What our checks recorded

We checked Claude 576 times from Anthropic's start time to its resolution, once every five minutes. Every one of them reached Claude's site, so this incident did not show up as a failed page load. Our check loads the public site; it cannot see an API error or a broken feature. Median response time was 264 ms, against 256 ms over the 24 hours before. Anthropic posted the incident at Oct 7, 9:25 AM EDT.

Updates are Anthropic's own words from its status page (status: resolved); we never add an inferred cause. The vendor's incident page ↗

Issue with spend limits

none
Started
Oct 7, 5:23 PM EDT
Resolved
Oct 7, 5:23 PM EDT
Duration
0 min

Anthropic's updates (1)

  1. resolved · Oct 7, 5:23 PM EDT

    We have identified an issue which resulted in some organizations to be incorrectly paused for having reached their spend limit, resulting in refused requests on the Claude API, Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Security, and Claude Cowork. This is now resolved.

What our checks recorded

We have no checks recorded from Anthropic's start time to its resolution.

Updates are Anthropic's own words from its status page (status: resolved); we never add an inferred cause. The vendor's incident page ↗

The AI cascade

Claude depends on Anthropic. When that upstream has an incident, it doesn't hit Claude alone — these AI tools share the dependency and can degrade at the same time:

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