Anthropic's Claude AI Hit by Widespread Outage

Anthropic's Claude AI platform suffered a widespread outage on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, disrupting access for thousands of users worldwide and affecting key services including the web interface, coding tool and application programming interface.

The issues began around 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, with user reports spiking sharply on outage-tracking site DownDetector. By midmorning Pacific time, more than 7,000 complaints had been logged, climbing to over 20,000 within hours. The majority of reports, about 38 percent, involved problems with Claude Chat, the conversational feature, while 29 percent cited issues with Claude Code and 25 percent with the mobile app. Users encountered login failures, incomplete responses, connectivity errors and unexpected messages indicating they had reached daily usage limits, even for those who had not recently interacted with the service.

Anthropic confirmed the disruption in a statement, noting that Claude.ai and related services like Cowork were down for most users, with some facing login troubles for Claude Code. "Claude.ai and Cowork are currently down for most users and some users may also have trouble logging into Claude Code," a company...