Partial outageAnthropic ・ May 12, 2026

Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.7

A record of the Anthropic incident on May 12, 2026 (UTC): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.

Started
May 12, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC
Resolved
May 12, 2026, 11:58 PM UTC
Duration
19m
Impact
Partial outage

Other providers down at the same time

No other provider we monitor recorded an incident during this window. This appears to have been specific to Anthropic.

Derived from our own archive of official status pages across 13 providers. Items lasting more than 24 hours and unresolved items are excluded, as they would misrepresent the moment.

How big was this outage?

This outage lasted 19 minutes. Across 66 major incidents recorded for Anthropic, the median duration is 78 minutes, making this the 59th longest.

Shorter than a typical outage.

Only incidents recorded as major-or-worse and already resolved are counted.

Current status

Anthropic is operating normally now. This incident has been resolved.

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What you can do during an outage

Source: Anthropic's official status page.

Other Anthropic incidents

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  2. Elevated errors for Claude Opus 5.5October 24, 2026
  3. Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5October 23, 2026
  4. Elevated errors affecting ConnectorsOctober 22, 2026
  5. Degraded performance for Claude Fable 5October 21, 2026