Partial outageAnthropic ・ October 6, 2026

Elevated errors for Claude Opus 5.5

A record of the Anthropic incident on October 6, 2026 (UTC): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.

Started
Oct 6, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 6, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC
Duration
19m
Impact
Partial outage

Other providers down at the same time

2 other incident(s) at different providers overlapped with this one. It may not have been limited to a single service — several providers were degraded at once.

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 61 major incidents recorded for Anthropic, the median duration is 86 minutes, making this the 55th 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

  1. Elevated errors for Claude Mythos 5.1 and Claude Fable 5.1October 5, 2026
  2. Delayed credits on the Claude PlatformOctober 1, 2026
  3. Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude APISeptember 29, 2026
  4. Elevated errors for multiple modelsSeptember 22, 2026
  5. Issues with Google Play subscriptionsSeptember 16, 2026