Anthropic’s Claude faces major outage till date, services disrupted for nearly five hours

Anthropic’s Claude AI experienced a major outage on Friday, resulting in a service disruption that lasted nearly five hours, one of the longest incidents reported for the platform to date.

Users reported widespread issues with the Claude API and models such as Opus 4.6. However, Claude for Government services remained largely unaffected.

According to outage tracker Downdetector, user reports surged past 100 around 2:20 pm IST, with another peak observed at 5:05 pm IST. The disruption continued until approximately 8 pm IST.