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Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026
- timpera 6mo agohttps://status.claude.com/ https://status.claude.com/
- mastabadtomm 6mo ago[dead]
- Trufa 6mo agoI honestly feel like it's more honest status measure than many status pages I know.
- rvz 6mo agoThis is not an outage, Claude just gets lazier on Fridays. Sometimes Claude wants more lunch breaks, takes a half day and leaves the desk early just like any human would. (since AI boosters like comparing LLMs to humans all the time) /s
- SpicyLemonZest 6mo agoYou joke, but I think that's a fair summary of why people don't mind one 9 of uptime in a key component of their development workflow.
- sebastiennight 6mo agoIf you're concerned about humans anthropomorphizing AI models, you might want to steer well clear of Anthropic, as their entire positioning (starting with the product name and continuing with UX choices and model releases) is built to attract the kind of researchers who are prone to believe in sentient machines. They are going in the "Claude is alive" direction already and that line of communication is likely going full throttle in the nearby future.
- GorbachevyChase 6mo agoI suspect the next big marketing gimmick is this supposed leak about capybara. I suspect the leak is intentional and meant to influence their expected IPO. I think the big reveal is going to be that frontier models are no better than the open source models that you could feasibly run on retail hardware however they have a highly complex harness behind the API where the magic is.
- sebastiennight 6mo agoI think we're talking about two very different things. I don't think that Anthropic's anthropomorphizing is a marketing gimmick. It would be less concerning if it was.
- scottyah 6mo agoI had my agent set up a "team" of subagents directed to different parts of a big new app (UX Engineer, test lead, etc) . Apparently the Senior SWE had reduced the scope, and my PM came to me trying to argue the side of the SWE that had reduced the scope for time constraint reasons... It went a bit too deep into the role-playing bit.
- seneca 6mo agoThey seem to be a victim of their own success. Their response times are quite bad, and it's widely believed they are doing something to degrade service quality (quantizing?) in order to stretch resources. They just announced that they're cutting their usage limits down during peak hours as well. They're in serious risk of losing their lead with this sort of performance.
- no_shadowban_3 6mo ago[dead]
- orphea 6mo ago> this sort of performance They've been very proud of it.
- sva_ 6mo agoIt can't be worse than gemini-cli using a Pro account.
- seneca 6mo agoOh really? Do they have availability problems too?
- nsingh2 6mo agoGemini CLI has been broken for the past 2-3 days, with no response from Google. Really embarrassing for a multi-trillion dollar company. At this point Codex is the only reliable CLI app, out of the big three. https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiCLI/comments/1s49pag/this_is_taking_a_bit_longer_were_still_on_it_esc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiCLI/comments/1s49pag/this_is_...
- sva_ 6mo agoLast time I tried it a single prompt ran for over an hour, mostly doing nothing/waiting on availability.
- internetter 6mo ago
- verdverm 6mo agoYou can access Claude models with Google Cloud reliability via VertexAI. The caveat is that you cannot use your subscription, per-token pricing only. I personally prefer per-token, it makes you more thoughtful about your setup and usage, instead of spray and pray. You can also access the notable open weight models with VertexAI, only need to change the model id string.
- joe_mamba 6mo agoI saw a funny skit where if free Claude instance was down for you, you could just ask Rufus, Amazon's shopping AI assistant, your math/coding question phrased as a question about a product, and it would just answer lol.
- Tade0 6mo agoIn my region a certain small bank had an AI assistant which someone neglected to limit, so you could put whatever there and not even phrase it as a question about a product.
- Scene_Cast2 6mo agoI also use them per-token (and strongly prefer that due to a lack of lock-in). However, from a game theory perspective, when there's a subscription, the model makers are incentivized to maximize problem solving in the minimum amount of tokens. With per-token pricing, the incentive is to maximize problem solving while increasing token usage.
- verdverm 6mo agoI don't think this is quite right because it's the same model underneath. This problem can manifest more through the tooling on top, but still largely hard to separate without people catching you. I do agree that Big Ai has misaligned incentives with users, generally speaking. This is why I per-token with a custom agent stack. I suspect the game theoretic aspects come into play more with the quantizing. I have not (anecdotally) experienced this in my API based, per-token usage. I.e. I'm getting what I pay for.
- steveBK123 6mo agoRemember when putting your entire life & business into the cloud was good because they were all offering 5 9s of uptime? Very few cases these days.. feels like we are lucky to get 2 9s anymore.
- bwb 6mo agoHonestly, downtime has gotten way better as one of the people behind (https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com). Compared to 10 years ago things are so much more redundant and harder to take down.
- ieie3366 6mo agoThank you finally. Tired of all the people online with anxiety who project their own personal issues by spamming this kind of doomer posts.
- MichaelZuo 6mo agoSo then why does no one offer 99.999% uptime guarantees in writing? It should be low risk to offer such guarantees then.
- staticassertion 6mo agoWell, (a) why would they? (b) "uptime" has shifted from a binary "site up/down" to "degraded performance", which itself indicates improvements to uptime since we're both pickier and more precise.
- Alifatisk 6mo agoAre we really questioning why cloud providers would offer better uptime guarantees?
- staticassertion 6mo agoYes, I'm asking why they'd lock themselves into a contract around 5 9s of uptime since the parent poster mentioned that they won't do so. Of course, AWS actually does do this in some cases and they guarantee 99.99% for most things, so it feels a bit arbitrary - 5 minutes vs an hour, roughly.
- michaelcampbell 6mo ago> Our uptime has a '9' in it! -- Anthropic
- leosanchez 6mo agoOr as the British would say "9 innit ?"
- adgjlsfhk1 6mo agoGithub this month is very close to having 0 9s reliability. (unless they want to argue that 89% has a 9 in it)
- marcosdumay 6mo agoThe comment you are replying is carefully written in a way that allows 23.19%
- littlestymaar 6mo agoI'm not sure I've had a day without Github hiccups this month, so that feels right.
- claw-el 6mo agoThere is always 88.9% or 88.89%
- ACCount37 6mo agoBy now, I'm nearly certain that they'd be down to 0 9s of uptime if they counted it conservatively.
- bwb 6mo agoWe had a ton of traffic coming in to check them: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/anthropic https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/anthropic Not one of the usual ones that has service problems :)
- yread 6mo agoAt this point you can stop worrying about downtime-free deployments so the devops becomes easier
- 3yr-i-frew-up 6mo agoVictim of success. They are the best. ChatGPT is walmart. Gemini is kroger. Claude is... idk your local grocer that is always amazing and costs more?
- quentindanjou 6mo agoThe local grocer that isn't amazing and cost more and actually isn't really that local in the sense that none of the products sold are from local businesses/producers?
- 3yr-i-frew-up 6mo agoNo bud, Opus is the best model at this current moment. GPT4.5 + COT would have been the best, but OpenAI got cheap.
- Bolwin 6mo agoI'd say claude is whole foods
- dehrmann 6mo agoI wonder how much is due to supply constraints, how much is standard growing pains, and if over-reliance on AI was the cause for any outages.
- tracker1 6mo agoI know they tend to get much slower early evenings in the Western US... Not sure if this is everyone on the west coast going home and working on stuff, or the early people in the Asia region coming online.
- claudiug 6mo agoMAKE NO MISTAKES! DO NOT HALLUCINATE! FIX IT!
- maplethorpe 6mo agoI find it's more reliable if you write "you are a highly experienced software engineer".
- polski-g 6mo agoPisses me off when I see those slop Skill repos posted every week.
- yubainu 6mo ago[dead]
- nurettin 6mo agoI start every prompt with "we have been going in circles". It is the shibboleth for anthropic to A/B test you with their secret new model.
- scuff3d 6mo agoProbably vide-coded their infrastructure
- aubanel 6mo agoI wouldn't be too harsh, scaling x10 YoY is a bit hard on the infra!
- timpera 6mo agoOpenAI managed it way better, but we might have Microsoft to thank for that.
- gherkinnn 6mo agoBut isn't GitHub's perpetual demise Microsoft's fault?
- BoredPositron 6mo agoWe don't know any numbers.
- whateveracct 6mo agoisn't serving Claude embarrassingly parallel tho?
- littlestymaar 6mo agoIf you don't pay attention 99% may sound high but it means up to 20 hours of downtime in over the quarter. Anthropic has had more than that. Yikes.
- yomismoaqui 6mo agoMaybe they are gunning for 5 nines (9.9999%)
- boxingdog 6mo ago[dead]
- palcu 6mo agoHey folks, I'm Alex from the reliability engineering team at Anthropic. We've just posted the retrospective for this incident: > On March 26–27, 2026, customers experienced elevated error rates when using Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6. The issue was caused by a networking performance degradation within our cloud infrastructure that disrupted communication between components of our serving stack. We resolved the incident by migrating the affected workloads to healthy infrastructure, restoring normal service by 9:30 AM PT on March 27. https://status.claude.com/incidents/b9802k1zb5l2 https://status.claude.com/incidents/b9802k1zb5l2
- halJordan 6mo agoIs it really an answer to say "network disruption" with a bunch of $10 words? Certainly it doesn't belong here of all places.
- nerdsniper 6mo agoIt’s definitely an answer! Maybe just not a “retrospective”?
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- cedws 6mo agoAre you able to share if there's a general trend behind the outages? Do you often hit capacity, or do you budget to have headroom?
- palcu 6mo agoYes, the general trend is the unprecedented growth that we've seen. Typically one would have some time in advance to re-engineer the systems to support the increased in traffic and users. But we're dealing with very compressed timelines and while most of the time we're able to fix the issues beforehand, sometimes we have to do them in production. Sorry for that.
- sgbeal 6mo agoThe ironic thing about outages such as this one and Github's recent spate of outages are that if those vendors' sales pitches are to be believed, the vendors could just ask their LLMs to program reliable replacements overnight (okay, maybe a weekend).
- rambojohnson 6mo agoIt's pretty damn good, and it's seen a real exodus of conscientious users; the QuitGPT movement alone hit 1.5 million participants, with Claude skyrocketing to #1 on the App Store virtually overnight. No surprise the servers are getting hammered. time to give your devops guy his job back.