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Claude Hit by Repeated Outages Affecting API and Claude Code

June 23, 2026 at 12:36 EDT

Infra & Chips
Foundation Models

Anthropic's chatbot Claude, along with its API, Claude Code and other related services, was hit by multiple outages on June 23, 2026, with tens of thousands of users reportedly affected. The company published a step-by-step account from diagnosis to fix on its status page, and all incidents were resolved the same day.

June 23, 2026 · Anthropic Claude

Claude Buckles Under Demand: 85 Minutes of Elevated Errors

Tens of thousands of users hit "529 Overloaded" across claude.ai, the API and Claude Code on the morning of June 23 — the latest in a run of June outages widely framed as infrastructure strain.

85 min

Main incident window (7:08–8:33am PT)

529

Primary error code: "Overloaded"

Services hit: app, API, Console, Code, Cowork

Two overlapping disruptions (UTC)

Opus 4.8

~137 min

6:28 → 8:45 · resolved

All models

85 min

14:08 → 15:33 · normalized

Errors centered on Opus 4.8, but also touched Opus 4.7/4.6, Sonnet 4.6 and Haiku 4.5. Column heights are proportional to outage duration.

Separate suspension

High-end models Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 have been unavailable since June 12 under a US government export-control directive — leaving overall availability in flux.

Praised for

Strong performance, especially coding — an App Store mainstay as demand surged through 2026.

Weak point

Uneven uptime vs rivals. Advice: avoid single-provider reliance — use fallbacks and retries with exponential backoff.

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