Claude AI is down — what we know so far about the outage
Anthropic's Claude AI is experiencing a major outage, with users reporting service disruptions and inaccessible platforms. The issues, confirmed by Claude's status page, include API errors and problems with Claude.ai and Haiku 4.5. Over 2,700 outage reports were logged within an hour on Downdetector. The cause of the disruption remains unknown.
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AI Claude AI is down — what we know so far about the outage Users report issues accessing the service News By John Velasco published 28 April 2026 0 Comments Join the conversation When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: © Future) Users are reporting significant service disruptions with Anthropic’s Claude AI, which appears to be having an outage. Issues were first reported to Downdetector at approximately 1:35 p.m. ET, with over 1,800 reports that subsequently ballooned to over 2,700 reports by 2:05 p.m.
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