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Claude.ai is now at a 98.85% uptime. There's been so many frustrations with Claude / Anthropic lately (very heavy usage limits, wrong A / B testing, etc.). Cla

Claude.ai is now at a 98.85% uptime. There's been so many frustrations with Claude / Anthropic lately (very heavy usage limits, wrong A / B testing, etc.). Claude status: https://status.claude.com/ https://status.claude.com/ I have been really happy with my Codex subscription lately, but feels like these things change every other day. The OpenCode Go subscription for trying out GLM, Kimi, Qwen, Deepseek and friends also looks useful. But nonetheless, Opus 4.6 is a very capable model, but justifying a Claude subscription gets more and more difficult, think I might just sometimes use it through OpenRouter or as part of something like Cursor (although I'm not sure about the value of that subscription as well). OpenCode Go: https://opencode.ai/go https://opencode.ai/go Cursor: https://cursor.com https://cursor.com

rubslopes 5mo ago
April has been a crazy month for open weights models. I've been using Claude Code for work and Kimi 2.6 for personal projects and Kimi has been very good. Glm-5.1 is also great. Qwen, Mimo and Deepseek I need to test some more, but they all have been producing good results. I have the impression that they are all are at the same level, or close to, Sonnet 4.6.
- bombcar 5mo ago
  What are you running them on?
  - wswope 5mo ago
    Not OP, but having explored the field a good bit, Openrouter + pi harness in a devcontainer work great as a sane starting point. Highly recommend as a clean way to try out the upstart models.
  - rubslopes 5mo ago
    Harness: opencode Subscription: opencode go I also use a claw agent[1] via Telegram, which uses pi.dev under the hood with my opencode go subscription. [1] I forked one of those Claw projects (bareclaw) and made many changes to it.
    - abustamam 5mo ago
      When you say harness what do you mean? I see the term thrown around a lot and I think it's lost its meaning in some fashion.
      - phainopepla2 5mo ago
        In this context it means the tool you use the models with. So Claude Code is a harness, OpenAI's codex, Opencode, pi, etc. Those are all cli harnesses
        abustamam 5mo ago
        Gotcha, thanks!
      - rubslopes 5mo ago
        A fellow user replied below, but it refers to the software that uses the LLM (Claude Code, Opencode, pi.dev, etc.). --- Funny you mention that, because I started noticing the word 'harness' being used everywhere about a month ago, even though I hadn’t seen it before (in this context). As I don’t trust my memory, I assumed I had just been overlooking it and added it to my vocabulary. However, a Google Trends search does show increased usage since the end of March: https://trends.google.com.br/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=harness https://trends.google.com.br/trends/explore?date=today%203-m...
        gwerbin 5mo ago
        Interesting timing, because I think it was in March when I had a chat with Gemini about what the heck these things are supposed to be called, and that's where I first heard the term. It's probably just a coincidence. But that would be pretty interesting if we have an example of some kind of memetic phenomenon where one or more popular LLMs makes a claim that people then start to repeat as true, or at least follow up on it and start writing about it, and in so doing the claim becomes true. Even if it didn't happen in this case, I feel like it's only a matter of time.
- slopinthebag 5mo ago
  They are close to Opus, not Sonnet.
  - 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
    The little qwen36 is at sonnet level . Kimi2.6 is about opus. The one can run on a single GPU on your gaming pc. The other you can run way cheaper from a provider. Or if you are really wealthy and have lots of gpus can run it yourself. Not sure where deepseek 4 sits
    - ryandrake 5mo ago
      Would "lots of gpus" even help for huge models? Maybe this is exposing my lack of knowledge but don't you need to keep the whole model and context in a single GPU's VRAM? My understanding is that multiple GPUs help with scaling (can handle N X inference requests simultaneously) but it doesn't help with using large models. If that were the case, I could jam another GPU in my box and double the size of model I can serve.
      - Kirby64 5mo ago
        > Would "lots of gpus" even help for huge models? Maybe this is exposing my lack of knowledge but don't you need to keep the whole model and context in a single GPU's VRAM? How do you think the large providers do inference? No single GPU has 1TB plus of memory on board. It’s a cluster of a bunch of gpus.
      - 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
        1t model instances(opus, gpt,etc) are not running on a single GPU. The catch is how the cards communicate and how the model is broken up. There's a bit that goes into it but the answer is yes the more gpus the bigger the model you can run.
        ryandrake 5mo ago
        Really cool. I'm very much still learning about this stuff. Sounds like this inter-GPU communication is a feature of special hardware (not consumer GPUs).
- nozzlegear 5mo ago
  I've been using qwen 3.6 with oMLX on my M1 Mac Studio and it's been awesome. Took a while to get things set up, figure out which of the hundreds of models would be a good fit for my use case, and then get it strapped into opencode's harness, but it works! Its slower than a hosted model, obviously, but I'm tickled pink that I can give it a relatively complex chore, like I would've with my a Claude Pro subscription, and it'll churn away on it with good results and no god damn arbitrary usage limits.
oefrha 5mo ago
There were periods where I was entirely unable to use Claude Code for hour+ due to auth gateway always returning 500 or timing out, there was an "elevated errors" incident shown on status.claude.com, but zero minute of downtime recorded (not even "partial outage"). So the real uptime should be even worse.
- rurp 5mo ago
  The real uptime being worse than reported is basically an iron law of status pages. You happened to hit one outage and I'm sure many others hit separate outages at different times that also weren't counted.
  - oefrha 5mo ago
    Sure. Difference is there are not many other services with uncounted hour long / multi-hour outages.
loloquwowndueo 5mo ago
> Claude.ai is now at a 98.85% uptime. So, at least better than GitHub, right? :)
- marcosdumay 5mo ago
  Depends on how you count downtime, since Anthropic has much fewer different services. But well, their ones are way harder to run.
tappio 5mo ago
I have used past week opencode go with deepseek v4 pro and claude code with opus 4.7 side by side and... they are both good. They are different, both have their good and bad sides... but they do get things done. Especially the OpenCode has been very enjoyable experience. Thank you Anthropic for all the down time, I would have probably not explored alternatives otherwise. I can vouch for the OpenCode Go sub!
egeozcan 5mo ago
Codex randomly stops working because some silly cybersecurity detector. Insane amount of false positives. Last time it happened, I was just letting it write me a small tool to translate the text in my clipboard. What cybersecurity? Code wasn't even published, or remotely like anything hacking related. I'm always letting AI write some boring CRUD tools that I don't want to code myself. It's bordering on being useless.
- azuanrb 5mo ago
  It's probably their system prompt. Unlike Claude Code, they don't ban you for using different harness with their subscription (for now). If you use pi, their "safety" is off. Works great for me.
qingcharles 5mo ago
Codex has been pretty reliable. Google's API is a trash fire of 503s on their paid models. Copilot is a lottery too.
selfawareMammal 5mo ago
New codex limits make it unusable though. Switched to Opencode.
nclin_ 5mo ago
The last few days I've seen more degradations and canceled my Max subscription. Presumptuous and wrong "memories" from a one-off command which affect all future commands, repeated/nonsensical phrases in messages, novel display bugs which make going back in the conversation impossible (I can't tell where I am), lack of basic forking features (resume a current convo in a second CC instance -> fork = no history for that convo?), poor/unclear reasoning, a new set of unclear folksy phrases (it really wants to "cut code" all of a sudden). Qwen + Opencode has been a game changer: which runs very well on a 4090 for basic/exploratory/private tasks, and being able to switch to and between frontier models (using openrouter in my case) to avoid vendor lock in feels like basic hygiene. There's also the homo economicus psychological difference between having a token budget to use up, and a cost per token. I'm more thoughtful about my usage now.
- dr_kiszonka 5mo ago
  Would you mind sharing what specific Qwen model you are running and how (Llama, vLLM, etc.)?
biztos 5mo ago
The "nines" measure of uptime is not some divine law. Even 80% Claude uptime would still be great value for money. You just need to have some idea of what to do when your frontier model is not available. Use Qwen? Read the code you've been generating? Multi-model coding tools seem like the obvious, sane path forward, but the Will to Lockin is strong.
- fireant 5mo ago
  Open multimodel tools will start dominating as soon as frontier labs stop massively subsidising their models only inside their tools and align with api pricing. Personally I think that the inflection point is near considering the slew of recent drama with Claude Code. Claude Code and Codex are solid, but the real reason people use these over alternatives is that they have dramatically lower overall cost compared to open alternatives.
- ehnto 5mo ago
  Generally speaking I think we should expect better. But it did remind me of how Japanese websites sometimes have opening hours. The website shows a closed status page during the out if hours time. Which I think makes some sense for some services for two reasons: your customers build habits and expectations around available service hours, and that in turn gives you regular maintenance windows that can accommodate large impactful changes. It is one of the reasons a 24/hr public transit network doesn't make complete sense. You shouldn't disrupt a service because people come to rely on it, but you can't disrupt a service you never provided in the first place.
dubcanada 5mo ago
If only opencode wasn't super buggy, it is really bad at just not returning responses, wasting tokens, duplicating responses, lagging, etc. It is nowhere near claude code levels, not even close. Even codex which is also not near claude is much better then opencode.
dbbk 5mo ago
Yes and OpenClaw is clearly a direct contributor to this. So this is good.

rubslopes 5mo ago

April has been a crazy month for open weights models. I've been using Claude Code for work and Kimi 2.6 for personal projects and Kimi has been very good. Glm-5.1 is also great. Qwen, Mimo and Deepseek I need to test some more, but they all have been producing good results. I have the impression that they are all are at the same level, or close to, Sonnet 4.6.

bombcar 5mo ago
What are you running them on?
- wswope 5mo ago
  Not OP, but having explored the field a good bit, Openrouter + pi harness in a devcontainer work great as a sane starting point. Highly recommend as a clean way to try out the upstart models.
- rubslopes 5mo ago
  Harness: opencode Subscription: opencode go I also use a claw agent[1] via Telegram, which uses pi.dev under the hood with my opencode go subscription. [1] I forked one of those Claw projects (bareclaw) and made many changes to it.
  - abustamam 5mo ago
    When you say harness what do you mean? I see the term thrown around a lot and I think it's lost its meaning in some fashion.
    - phainopepla2 5mo ago
      In this context it means the tool you use the models with. So Claude Code is a harness, OpenAI's codex, Opencode, pi, etc. Those are all cli harnesses
      - abustamam 5mo ago
        Gotcha, thanks!
    - rubslopes 5mo ago
      A fellow user replied below, but it refers to the software that uses the LLM (Claude Code, Opencode, pi.dev, etc.). --- Funny you mention that, because I started noticing the word 'harness' being used everywhere about a month ago, even though I hadn’t seen it before (in this context). As I don’t trust my memory, I assumed I had just been overlooking it and added it to my vocabulary. However, a Google Trends search does show increased usage since the end of March: https://trends.google.com.br/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=harness https://trends.google.com.br/trends/explore?date=today%203-m...
      - gwerbin 5mo ago
        Interesting timing, because I think it was in March when I had a chat with Gemini about what the heck these things are supposed to be called, and that's where I first heard the term. It's probably just a coincidence. But that would be pretty interesting if we have an example of some kind of memetic phenomenon where one or more popular LLMs makes a claim that people then start to repeat as true, or at least follow up on it and start writing about it, and in so doing the claim becomes true. Even if it didn't happen in this case, I feel like it's only a matter of time.
slopinthebag 5mo ago
They are close to Opus, not Sonnet.
- 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
  The little qwen36 is at sonnet level . Kimi2.6 is about opus. The one can run on a single GPU on your gaming pc. The other you can run way cheaper from a provider. Or if you are really wealthy and have lots of gpus can run it yourself. Not sure where deepseek 4 sits
  - ryandrake 5mo ago
    Would "lots of gpus" even help for huge models? Maybe this is exposing my lack of knowledge but don't you need to keep the whole model and context in a single GPU's VRAM? My understanding is that multiple GPUs help with scaling (can handle N X inference requests simultaneously) but it doesn't help with using large models. If that were the case, I could jam another GPU in my box and double the size of model I can serve.
    - Kirby64 5mo ago
      > Would "lots of gpus" even help for huge models? Maybe this is exposing my lack of knowledge but don't you need to keep the whole model and context in a single GPU's VRAM? How do you think the large providers do inference? No single GPU has 1TB plus of memory on board. It’s a cluster of a bunch of gpus.
    - 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
      1t model instances(opus, gpt,etc) are not running on a single GPU. The catch is how the cards communicate and how the model is broken up. There's a bit that goes into it but the answer is yes the more gpus the bigger the model you can run.
      - ryandrake 5mo ago
        Really cool. I'm very much still learning about this stuff. Sounds like this inter-GPU communication is a feature of special hardware (not consumer GPUs).
nozzlegear 5mo ago
I've been using qwen 3.6 with oMLX on my M1 Mac Studio and it's been awesome. Took a while to get things set up, figure out which of the hundreds of models would be a good fit for my use case, and then get it strapped into opencode's harness, but it works! Its slower than a hosted model, obviously, but I'm tickled pink that I can give it a relatively complex chore, like I would've with my a Claude Pro subscription, and it'll churn away on it with good results and no god damn arbitrary usage limits.

oefrha 5mo ago

There were periods where I was entirely unable to use Claude Code for hour+ due to auth gateway always returning 500 or timing out, there was an "elevated errors" incident shown on status.claude.com, but zero minute of downtime recorded (not even "partial outage"). So the real uptime should be even worse.

rurp 5mo ago
The real uptime being worse than reported is basically an iron law of status pages. You happened to hit one outage and I'm sure many others hit separate outages at different times that also weren't counted.
- oefrha 5mo ago
  Sure. Difference is there are not many other services with uncounted hour long / multi-hour outages.

loloquwowndueo 5mo ago

> Claude.ai is now at a 98.85% uptime. So, at least better than GitHub, right? :)

marcosdumay 5mo ago
Depends on how you count downtime, since Anthropic has much fewer different services. But well, their ones are way harder to run.

tappio 5mo ago

I have used past week opencode go with deepseek v4 pro and claude code with opus 4.7 side by side and... they are both good. They are different, both have their good and bad sides... but they do get things done. Especially the OpenCode has been very enjoyable experience. Thank you Anthropic for all the down time, I would have probably not explored alternatives otherwise. I can vouch for the OpenCode Go sub!

egeozcan 5mo ago

Codex randomly stops working because some silly cybersecurity detector. Insane amount of false positives. Last time it happened, I was just letting it write me a small tool to translate the text in my clipboard. What cybersecurity? Code wasn't even published, or remotely like anything hacking related. I'm always letting AI write some boring CRUD tools that I don't want to code myself. It's bordering on being useless.

azuanrb 5mo ago
It's probably their system prompt. Unlike Claude Code, they don't ban you for using different harness with their subscription (for now). If you use pi, their "safety" is off. Works great for me.

qingcharles 5mo ago

Codex has been pretty reliable. Google's API is a trash fire of 503s on their paid models. Copilot is a lottery too.

selfawareMammal 5mo ago

New codex limits make it unusable though. Switched to Opencode.

nclin_ 5mo ago

The last few days I've seen more degradations and canceled my Max subscription. Presumptuous and wrong "memories" from a one-off command which affect all future commands, repeated/nonsensical phrases in messages, novel display bugs which make going back in the conversation impossible (I can't tell where I am), lack of basic forking features (resume a current convo in a second CC instance -> fork = no history for that convo?), poor/unclear reasoning, a new set of unclear folksy phrases (it really wants to "cut code" all of a sudden). Qwen + Opencode has been a game changer: which runs very well on a 4090 for basic/exploratory/private tasks, and being able to switch to and between frontier models (using openrouter in my case) to avoid vendor lock in feels like basic hygiene. There's also the homo economicus psychological difference between having a token budget to use up, and a cost per token. I'm more thoughtful about my usage now.

dr_kiszonka 5mo ago
Would you mind sharing what specific Qwen model you are running and how (Llama, vLLM, etc.)?

biztos 5mo ago

The "nines" measure of uptime is not some divine law. Even 80% Claude uptime would still be great value for money. You just need to have some idea of what to do when your frontier model is not available. Use Qwen? Read the code you've been generating? Multi-model coding tools seem like the obvious, sane path forward, but the Will to Lockin is strong.

fireant 5mo ago
Open multimodel tools will start dominating as soon as frontier labs stop massively subsidising their models only inside their tools and align with api pricing. Personally I think that the inflection point is near considering the slew of recent drama with Claude Code. Claude Code and Codex are solid, but the real reason people use these over alternatives is that they have dramatically lower overall cost compared to open alternatives.
ehnto 5mo ago
Generally speaking I think we should expect better. But it did remind me of how Japanese websites sometimes have opening hours. The website shows a closed status page during the out if hours time. Which I think makes some sense for some services for two reasons: your customers build habits and expectations around available service hours, and that in turn gives you regular maintenance windows that can accommodate large impactful changes. It is one of the reasons a 24/hr public transit network doesn't make complete sense. You shouldn't disrupt a service because people come to rely on it, but you can't disrupt a service you never provided in the first place.

dubcanada 5mo ago

If only opencode wasn't super buggy, it is really bad at just not returning responses, wasting tokens, duplicating responses, lagging, etc. It is nowhere near claude code levels, not even close. Even codex which is also not near claude is much better then opencode.

dbbk 5mo ago

Yes and OpenClaw is clearly a direct contributor to this. So this is good.