Claude is down: What we know about the Anthropic outage.

Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, is currently down, with the company confirming “elevated errors” on Monday.

At 11:49 a.m. GMT (6:49 a.m. ET), Anthropic posted on its Claude status page that it was “currently investigating this issue,” with an update approximately 30 minutes later.

“We have identified that the Claude API is working as intended,” the latest update reads. “The issues we are seeing are related to Claude.ai and with the login/logout paths.”

Mashable has reached out to Anthropic for further information.

The errors are affecting the Claude chatbot, Claude Console (the Claude developer platform, and Claude Code (the company’s AI-powered coding assistant).

The last time Claude saw “elevated errors” was on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, with issues found and resolved affecting Claude Opus 4.6, its latest generation LLM (large language model)

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Credit: Mashable screenshot / Claude

The outage came hours after Claude dethroned competitor OpenAI’s ChatGPT in Apple’s App Store, hitting number one as the most-downloaded free app in the U.S. (ChatGPT is second, Google’s Gemini is fourth). The chart win came notably after President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. government would no longer use Anthropic tech including Claude, after which OpenAI entered into a deal with the U.S. Department of War to provide its AI technology for military use in “classified environments”.

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