Claude Seems Down
46 pointsby zhan_egan hour ago23 comments
  • jatora24 minutes ago
    As usual with these posts (here and on reddit), the outage is over within 5-10 minutes. Makes you wonder what power these have over the minds of SWE's who rush to scream immediately when their tool stop working.
    • bmitc21 minutes ago
      A tool is a tool. Our companies are shelling out millions of dollars to these companies.

      How many of us sometimes spend our days just hopping between the tools that are actually working at the moment?

  • amelius40 minutes ago
    I asked my OpenClaw agent to build me a Dyson sphere.
    • powvans29 minutes ago
      Claude, build Kardashev Type III power harnessing. Make no mistakes.
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  • gentooflux31 minutes ago
    Maybe get him something nice to cheer him up
  • GangstaAgentsan hour ago
    Time to write code by myself today)
  • soundworlds41 minutes ago
    Yeap, all Oauth sessions got kicked and can't get back in. Welp, switching to Deepseek V4 Flash 0731 via OpenRouter.

    Stoked that AI is in a place we have legitimate options available!

  • cryo3232 minutes ago
    Commence dribbling into the keyboard!
  • g42gregoryan hour ago
    They are busy implementing text watermarks.
  • walrus01an hour ago
    Large volume of user generated reports

    https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

  • maxall4an hour ago
    Status page reports as down: https://status.claude.com/
  • ericmayan hour ago
    Seeing the same. Logging out of the desktop app and attempting to log back in just results in a reset of the authentication flow.
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  • BoneHeadCIOan hour ago
    My bad, I asked it to do something for me that really must have blown its mind
  • petcatan hour ago
    Use Claude through AWS Bedrock. Never been down for me.
    • metaltyphoon31 minutes ago
      Meanwhile using it via GCP Vertex it was down terribly for 2 days last week
    • MyFirstSass40 minutes ago
      Using it through Bedrock / API the 200$ subscription costs upwards of 6000$ a month.

      How do you guys afford this, huge company that grants this?

      Definitely not viable for my lean startup.

      • fennecbutt27 minutes ago
        Via "Endless growth" baybeeeee
  • curious_cat_163an hour ago
    Looks like their auth is broken. Do they ever publish postmortems?
  • fennecbutt28 minutes ago
    To party? Awesome.
  • Boss0565an hour ago
    still using anthropic in the big august 2026?
    • gigatreean hour ago
      As opposed to what?
      • alexjplantan hour ago
        If you don't have regulatory hurdles to jump over then there are a whole raft of open-weight models that perform basically as well as Anthropic's offerings (and, in many cases, better because they're pulling fewer capacity-stretching shenanigans). Check out Kimi, DeepSeek, and GLM series models in particular with something like OpenCode or Pi as a coding harness. If you need a Claude-alike web UI then spin up Open WebUI in a container and expose it via cloudflared so you can use it on the go.
        • jatora20 minutes ago
          > perform basically as well > in many cases, better

          Completely, unequivocably, factually inaccurate. I wonder if you are being dishonest on purpose? Best case scenario you are advocating this from a place of little experience. Either way it is dishonest.

          • throw12345678918 minutes ago
            It’s not, you drink too much Kool-Aid, and your employer has too much money. Or the things you do are simply so irrelevant that nobody cares you’re sending stuff to a company of dubious morality.
        • gymbeaux44 minutes ago
          Kimi and DeepSeek are impressive for their size but still run slow on any hardware you or I would have. If you’re proposing we run those via a cloud service, I don’t see a reason to do that when it’s an inferior model and I still have to pay per token for it.
          • alexjplant35 minutes ago
            OpenCode Go provides a lot of usage for these models for the paltry sum of $10/month. Z.ai's coding plan provides a single-digit multiple of Claude Code's usage for a similar price and performance level. Kimi and DeepSeek models are hundreds of billions of parameters (or, in K3's case, >1T). Many of these models have Opus-level benchmarks and, as I pointed out previously, often practically outperform Anthropic models because they're more consistent.
          • throw12345678919 minutes ago
            You should run the maths once. Those tokens cost you much more than the hardware would. But yeah, CAPEX vs OPEX something something.
      • jnathsf34 minutes ago
        Codex w GPT 5.6 no issues w downtime and more token/cost efficient than Opus
      • joshheitzmanan hour ago
        Dozens of providers of open-weight models. I have one session going with synthetic.new and another going with novita.ai right now.
        • gymbeaux43 minutes ago
          But they’re slower (and benchmark worse) than Opus, GPT, et al. Why?
  • selbykan hour ago
    I'm sorry, but why is this on the front page with 2 up votes? Do we really need to be alerted every time the Claude API responds with an error?
    • alexkkoo93an hour ago
      Yea bc what are we supposed to do with ourselves now.
    • bossyTeacheran hour ago
      It's not just Claude API. See: "We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.". Seems pretty big to me.

      It's software used by many here so of course you will hear about Claude downtime here.

  • mr_bob_sacamano32 minutes ago
    oh no, now we have to activate our brains without generate tons of CO2! Ahhhhh...It's really unfair!
    • jatora17 minutes ago
      Do you have any idea how much CO₂ it takes to support the food/lifestyle of a median civilian in a first world country? Lol. AI is a drop in the bucket CO₂-wise
  • rvzan hour ago
    Claude is taking the rest of the day off, without alerting everyone. So it seems.
  • 2001zhaozhaoan hour ago
    bruh
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  • tito44 minutes ago
    I found out about this from my Claude Status menu bar I built last time it went down! It's invisible most of the time, unless the status goes down then a yellow or red marker appears. Improvements welcome: https://github.com/titojankowski/claude-status
    • gymbeaux41 minutes ago
      We’re in the phase of society where we will just build something like this ourselves using an LLM and it will be built exactly how we want it and we don’t have to worry about malicious code or forking it and hoping the owner will merge our PR… it’s sad but that’s where we are for anything the size of a menu bar that pings a URL every minute.
      • tito13 minutes ago
        yeah totally! some version of "summarize what this tool does at a high level and then build my own but don't use any of the code" perhaps.