Outage recap · Anthropic

Claude outage — October 25, 2026

On October 25, 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 for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and other models

major
Started
Oct 25, 2:14 AM EDT
Resolved
Oct 25, 3:53 AM EDT
Duration
1h 39m

Anthropic's updates (4)

  1. investigating · Oct 25, 2:14 AM EDT

    We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, and Claude Haiku 5.5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  2. identified · Oct 25, 2:27 AM EDT

    We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Sonnet 5.5 and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  3. monitoring · Oct 25, 2:35 AM EDT

    A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting Claude services and we are monitoring for recovery.

  4. resolved · Oct 25, 3:53 AM EDT

    The issue affecting Claude services has been resolved. Impact occurred from 23:05 PT on October 24 / 06:05 UTC on October 25 to 23:35 PT on October 24 / 06:35 UTC on October 25.

What our checks recorded

We checked Claude 20 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 275 ms, against 247 ms over the 24 hours before. Anthropic posted the incident at Oct 25, 2:14 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 ↗

Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1

major
Started
Oct 25, 4:17 AM EDT
Resolved
Oct 25, 4:49 AM EDT
Duration
32 min

Anthropic's updates (4)

  1. investigating · Oct 25, 4:17 AM EDT

    We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5.1. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  2. identified · Oct 25, 4:17 AM EDT

    We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5.1 and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  3. monitoring · Oct 25, 4:30 AM EDT

    A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting Claude services and we are monitoring for recovery.

  4. resolved · Oct 25, 4:49 AM EDT

    The issue affecting Claude services has been resolved. Impact occurred from 01:08 PT / 08:08 UTC to 01:29 PT / 08:29 UTC.

What our checks recorded

We checked Claude 6 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 293 ms, against 256 ms over the 24 hours before. Anthropic posted the incident at Oct 25, 4:17 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 ↗

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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