Anthropic confirms major claude.ai outage; API stays operational
Original title: Claude AI Is Down
Status labels cited on Hacker News put Console and Claude Code in partial outage and Claude Cowork degraded.
Hacker News users reported Claude unavailable, first via independent detectors and then on Anthropic's status page. A comment quoting that page listed claude.ai as a major outage, Claude Console and Claude Code as partial outages, and Claude Cowork as degraded, while the Claude API at api.anthropic.com stayed operational. One user said access failed for a few minutes with a Cloudflare block, then worked after changing networks. Another comment said the service seemed to work again while the incident was still under investigation.
Unconfirmed: The Cloudflare block is one user's report and is not confirmed by Anthropic.
- The cited incident page is status.claude.com/incidents/nn11wk485zfn.
- claude.ai was labeled a major outage; Console and Claude Code partial.
- Claude Cowork was degraded; api.anthropic.com was listed operational.
- One user attributed a brief failure to a Cloudflare block.
- Vendors
- Anthropic
- Organizations
- Cloudflare
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